Vanilla Re: [Sca-cooks] Castellan Feast, 2003...LONG

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Leah A. Montgomery wrote:

> Wow! Your first feast. What excitement! Sounds like everything went
> swimmingly though, with very few problems. Congratulations. My one and only
> comment....Vanilla is not period?? That is sad. Was it a New World food?

Yup, the vanilla orchid is from South/Central America as I recall, and in
fact Vanilla didn't come into common use until the 1800s because it wasn't
until then that people worked out a way to hand-pollinate the flowers to
increase yield to commercial quantities.

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