Jessica Badalana
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1,485 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5 Jun
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And so he realized that they all had to be hand pollinated.
I doubt they gave him a lot of credit for that discovery.
But that's the only way that vanilla has been able to flourish in places around the world because he discovered that they all have to be hand pollinated.
I mean, so many origin stories are dark origin stories.
To further complicate things.
So like, here it is, narrow band of the world.
Now it has to be hand pollinated.
You can only hand pollinate vanilla bean orchids for like a couple of hours is the window of pollination.
So, like, God help you if you're on your lunch break then.
Like, forget it.
It's just, like, the crop is... And then they're, like, adding to all of that, like, you know, the weather things.
Yeah.
I mean, truly, it is.
So, you know, when you think about all that, you're like, well...
No wonder like vanilla and vanilla extract, vanilla beans, vanilla extract are really expensive.
So right now, I mean, when I last checked, I don't know if it's like how much it varies day to day, but a kilo, so 2.2 pounds of vanilla bean pods, Madagascar grown vanilla bean pods is going to run you about 300 bucks.
And, you know, I think a little vanilla does go a long way, like a little real vanilla, but not as far as you'd think.
And so, of course, like, now there is a robust...
secondary vanilla production, which is artificial vanilla.
Because true vanilla is so expensive that, you know, given our, like, worldwide appetite for vanilla and the flavor of vanilla, like, we can't keep up.
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