Claire Saffitz

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254 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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Planet Money · There's no business like dough business · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

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Okay.

Well, thank you for having me on.

I am very excited to be here.

And I am honored to be on the vanilla episode because it is truly one of the great flavors and so unique and special.

And I don't know how the word vanilla got associated with something like bland and boring because it is neither bland nor boring.

So I'm very excited to talk about it.

I think sometimes the word vanilla is like the default flavor.

It's sort of like it doesn't have a flavor, so it gets labeled vanilla maybe because it has a couple of teaspoons of vanilla extract in it.

But I do think if you're going to market it as vanilla, it should have a distinct vanilla flavor.

Or maybe you see specks of vanilla bean in it because I kind of want to see the proof a little bit.

If it's a cake, just call it a butter cake if it doesn't have a flavor, in a sense.

Vanilla should not just be the label that it gets to make it sound like it has something in it.

So yeah, if it's being sold to me as a vanilla something, I want to see it, and I want to smell it, and I want to taste it, for sure.

I think it's like you can't define the word with the word.

I don't know.

It is, to me, sort of indescribable if you haven't had it.

It is very aromatic, even a little bit spicy.

But I think it's sort of hard to describe because it's so singular.

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