Using a real vanilla bean to make this homemade Vanilla Simple Syrup gives you a warm, sweet vanilla flavor that beats ...

A number of United Nations agencies working in East and West Sepik in Papua New Guinea over the last four or five years believe they've helped improve the livelihoods of more than 100,000 people. The ...

PRAGUE CASTLE, CZECH REPUBLIC— La Brújula Verde reports that excavations within Prague Castle yielded the oldest vanilla bean pod in Europe. Mesoamerican cultures such as the Maya and Aztecs ...

A recent archaeobotanical study has uncovered an unexpected discovery in the heart of Europe: the oldest evidence of vanilla use on the continent. It is a dried vanilla pod, found in a waste vault in ...

Using real vanilla beans in homemade cream soda will result in a drink that’s anything but plain or boring.

Extracted from the bean pod of a delicate orchid, vanilla must be grown under exceptionally precise conditions along a band of the earth between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

To make a vanilla bean syrup at home, simply use a 1:1 ratio of turbinado sugar to water and add a split, scraped vanilla bean pod to the pot, making sure to get every last vanilla seed into the ...