For as long as cooks have been putting food to flame, herbs and spices have been there adding flavors and aromas. We take them for a grain of salt (pun intended) but spices are serious stuff. In their day, the spice trade was the world’s most vibrant industry. It established and destroyed empires, started wars,…
The pilgrimage for Vanilla
It took a few years and some strategy to get to the first and most successful vanilla farm in the U.S. but I recently made it. Nestled in the verdant jungles of the Hamakua Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii where King Kamehameha once walked, this pioneer farm is an inspirational story of a…
