Vanilla is my favorite flavor for everything, even in the bedroom!
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids, were you aware of that?
Oh I had no idea, but I do love vanilla icecream in bed, yes sir! How is it extracted?
well it came from very long ago! Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid.
Oh wow, how new is the flavor? Did they have it in ancient times?
Yes they did, the flavor we know of now was brought back to the new world with chocolate in the 1520s by Hernan Cortes.
Oh yes, chocolate and vanilla, a great combo. What other flavors go good with vanilla, do you thinl?
There are a lot of flavors that go great with vanilla, in 1837 belgian botanist Charles Morren discovered a way to artificially polinate the plant and extract the flavor.
Oh so he discovered it by accident by trying to develop a way to help the plant spread artificially, yes? What's your favorite flavor to go with vanilla
Yeah! Hand Pollination allowed global cultivation of the plant, making it worldwide!