Jessica Badalana
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Not a huge place.
Tahiti, Mexico, Uganda.
There's a very small amount of vanilla produced in Hawaii, in Ecuador.
But it's a, you know, like wine or cheese, where the vanilla is grown has an impact on sort of its flavor.
It has terroir.
It has terroir.
Yes, exactly.
What did I say?
Terroir?
Terroir.
I know, but I love how you keep shooting for the fences.
You keep putting these foreign words in and trying your best.
Yeah, sure.
I just am imagining you in your bathroom mirror every morning like, terroir, biscotti.
I can do it.
I can do it.
But it's also, as we talked about, very labor-intensive to grow vanilla.
This isn't just a set-it-and-forget-it kind of plant.
You need the right weather, so it's a crop that's very susceptible to a warming climate, which is a thing that's happening now.
I don't know exactly how it's done.