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

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
>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?
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>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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>I hope this long link comes through useable.

One doesn't need to include all the tracking info with links - which much of that is. It can be removed. Here's the link, a bit more manageable without all that extra stuff:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vanilla-was-first-used-2500-years-earlier-and-half-world-where-we-thought-180970862/

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