On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 09:43 -0700, J. Andrew Rogers wrote: > natural vanilla and among the least expensive, so "rare" is not > exactly the word I would use to describe its availability. Around > here, a Madagascar vanilla pod goes for 1.00-1.50 pounds.
yeah, but they don't say it's just a regular madagascar vanilla pod, which i've used too, but a "wild black" variety of which only 5000 pods a year are collected by hand. like the "saffron picked by tibetan nomads" there's no way of verifying their story!
