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

[Daniel Myers]

Look how widely used hot peppers (capsicum) have become around the
world in the same time period.  Pretty impressive, eh?


On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Leah A. Montgomery wrote:

> I never realized that we've been using it commonly for less than 200
> years.
> We use it in just about everything.
>
> Leah A. Montgomery
> SCA: Safia bint Wahib al Marakeshi called Samira
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika