[Sca-cooks] Vanilla in the old and new world?

[Stefan li Rous]

Interesting. It looks like vanila was used in both the old and the new world. What this brings up is, why did it die out in the old world?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vanilla-was-first-used-2500-years-earlier-and-half-world-where-we-thought-180970862/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20181121-daily-responsive&spMailingID=37474810&spUserID=NzM3Mzg2ODQ5OTU5S0&spJobID=1402296043&spReportId=MTQwMjI5NjA0MwS2

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