1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: I am hungry for vanilla. Let me tell you, I'm 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: so excited. My name is Eva Longoria and I am 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: and welcome to Hungry for History, a podcast that explores 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 1: our past and present through food. On every episode, we'll 5 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: talk about the history of some of our favorite dishes, ingredients, 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: and beverages. So make yourself at home. Even we just 7 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: had the most ridiculously incredible day day, one of the 8 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: most memorable days of my life. I have to say, 9 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: I know and I don't know it because we're geeky 10 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: about food. So we're north of the Port of Vera, Cruz. 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,519 Speaker 1: Were in the region of the Toa or total in 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 1: English in English, which is the original region of the 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: vanilla plant. Yes, but where we were today in that 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: region was known as the city that perfumed the world. Yeah, well, 15 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: that's so romantic. The whole thing today was even impregnated 16 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: a flower. I am a proud mother father of a 17 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 1: vanilla bean. I ampregnated an orchid. Thank you very much. 18 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 1: You're gonna have a little vanilla baby, vanilla baby. You 19 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: know you saw me. I was. It was so nerve wracking. 20 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: And we're going to get to the process because it's 21 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: a hard process. But like you guys, first of all, 22 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if people understand vanilla anything, vanilla, vanilla, 23 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: flavor of vanilla, smell, vanilla in medicinal vanilla comes from 24 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: a vanilla bean, and that bean comes from an orchid 25 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: that grows on a vine. Yeah, exactly. When you look 26 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: at the vanilla bean, split it upen, it's all these 27 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: teeny tiny little seeds. So it is the most labor 28 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: intensive crop. And like you said, it's a flower that 29 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: grows from a vine. And that's what it's the most 30 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: incredible process that I read about it. I read about it. 31 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: I always use vanilla beans. If I'm in the story, 32 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: I buy a vanilla bean. And I don't know if 33 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: you've noticed, like thirty dollars, now do you understand why? 34 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: Now I have such an appreciation as to why is 35 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: thirty dollars. Also, I've never bought vanilla extract that is chemical. 36 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: I always read the ingredients because things can say natural 37 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: vanilla extract and there don't come from a vine and 38 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: they don't come from the land, and there's nothing natural 39 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: about it. Now it's all chemicals. It's cal chemicals or 40 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 1: caramel color. I mean, it's really important to read the 41 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: label and the ingredients should be vanilla an alcohol. A 42 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 1: few years ago, I made vanilla I got a bottle 43 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,079 Speaker 1: of vodka. Okay, you made vanilla extract. I made vania extract. Yes, 44 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: added a ton of vanilla beans, and a year later 45 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: it's ready. It's the perfect gift. Little vanilla home. Maybe 46 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: a friend of mine and give it to me. It 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: was a perfect gift. I was like, this is but 48 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: it's just it's it's an incredible process. I mean to 49 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: when you're at the store and there's one thing, okay, 50 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: looking at the agreements and seeing it and the vanilla 51 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: extract and just being like, oh my god, this is 52 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: thirty dollars of bean, or this is twenty five dollars 53 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: a bottle. But you understand why I mean from that bottle, 54 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: if you go to the farm where we were lucky 55 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: enough to be it today, it's just un unbelievable. I 56 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: want to we're going to talk about y'all. We're going 57 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: to talk about our day today because it was really 58 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 1: the entire process of harvesting of vanilla bean. But first 59 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: of all, I want to start with, like, I don't 60 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: think if people even know the vanilla plant is native 61 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: to Mexico because they were they were sing it. Talk 62 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: about the total kno mythology about it being a princess, right, 63 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 1: because you know the agave of tequila has a whole thought. 64 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, and so of course Vanilla comes from 65 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: some goddess. Of course what was just to just to 66 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: add to the to the roomance of it. Yeah, So 67 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: according to mythology, the Vanilla or kid was born a 68 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: princess who was forbidden by her father from marrying immortal. 69 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: So but of course she didn't pay attention to your father, 70 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: so she fled with her lover that she adored, and 71 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 1: they were captured and they were beheaded and their blood 72 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: oozed out of their bodies, and the bodies are headless bodies. 73 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 1: And where the blood touched the ground is where the 74 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: vines and the orchids grew. My dream for everybody who's 75 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: listening to this and people who aren't, is that they 76 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,680 Speaker 1: make this pilgrimage to Vanilla, because you know, you go 77 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:49,919 Speaker 1: to Beta Cruz, you have to drive three hours north 78 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: to La which is home to the which was this 79 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 1: thriving civilization. When you drive, we're in the jo goal 80 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: um banana leaves everywhere, Banana trees everywhere, right everywhere, the ocean. 81 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: It's super lush, lush, and it was a thriving community 82 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 1: because of its strategic location, two trade routes, but also 83 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: natural resources. There's jungle, there's rain, there's sea, there's fresh water, 84 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: there's i mean all the natural the mountains, all of it. Here. 85 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: We went to the ruins of um and that was 86 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: fascinating and you can tell just by those ruins what 87 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: a prosperous civilization they were. I mean it was huge, 88 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: and they had a marketplace, and they had the temples, 89 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: and they had the rituals, and then they had the 90 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: residences and many and very little of it. How many 91 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: has been excavated, so there's way more the way, like, 92 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you know, if we only knew, but 93 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: this was, you know, the people and the civilization that 94 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: really discovered or first that we know of used vanilla 95 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 1: in people. Well they first said there were the US 96 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: to cultivate the vanilla. And when we were there that 97 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: the heat yesterday of the ruins, we saw that ceremony 98 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: of the men, the yet us. A bartnoon sun is 99 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: bright and hot and very very humid here in place. 100 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 1: So if you can imagine this, this long pole, super tall, 101 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: like I don't even know how many feet, oh god, 102 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: hundred feet. Yeah, and five men. They're dressed in huey 103 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,440 Speaker 1: bright colors, are white glass, but bright red pants, and 104 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: they have all sorts of flowy colorful ribbons and ribbons 105 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: on their head leans on their hats. I see red 106 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: and green and yellow blue. So one of them is 107 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: at the very top playing a little drum and playing 108 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: the flute, and then four of them start at the 109 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,240 Speaker 1: very top, and once he starts playing the music, they 110 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: start spinning down like birds, like rain. But also they 111 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: represent the four cardinal directions all right, where they go 112 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: hanging upside down, hanging from their ankles and they're spinning around. 113 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: And so this is a ceremony that's been happening since 114 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: pre Hispanic times. And there was this legend that at 115 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: some point the gods stopped, you know, giving people right 116 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: because the people weren't paying enough attention to the gods. 117 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: So they were like, okay, here's your drought. So the 118 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 1: ceremony was created to appease the gods and bring the 119 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: rain back so that the vanilla could thrive. Here's a 120 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,920 Speaker 1: crazy thing. Vanilla vines or plants only grow within a 121 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: twenty degree band on either side of the equator because 122 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: of the climate. Chocolate as well, it needs to be hot, 123 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: we know today it's human. Yeah, it needs to be hot, humid, 124 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: very tropical. That's why environment place for it as well, 125 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: even though it's not native to Madagascar, it's just the climate. 126 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: The climate. And then it's like, oh my gosh, why, 127 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: like what happened, you know, like what happened in Mexico. 128 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: It doesn't produce, you know, it produced very little, and 129 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 1: so I was discovering that. You know, the vanilla industry 130 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 1: began to really take off in Madagascar in the eight nineties, 131 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: and it was right around the time that Mexico was 132 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 1: in turmoil, like the Mexican Revolution was to nineteen twenties. 133 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: It was right around the time that Madagascar vanilla started 134 00:08:57,559 --> 00:09:02,280 Speaker 1: to go up, right, So that's essentially the revolution was 135 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: raging throughout Mexico and it was immediately followed by the 136 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: oil industry. So vanilla's hagotten industry. It was abandoned. It 137 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 1: was abandoned, yea, it was, and there are farmers and 138 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 1: people trying to bring it back, just like it's happening 139 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: with corn and beans and all of these things. I 140 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: love that there's still people that care, that are wanting 141 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 1: to keep these traditions alive. It's like you really have 142 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: to take care of it to nourish the land, and 143 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: just because these things just end, you know, and it's like, what, 144 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: it's native to this region, but most of the Mexican 145 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: vanilla we can find in the States is not Mexican. 146 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: It's not real vanilla. It's very easy to say natural, right, 147 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: but it's just it's one of the chemicals that they 148 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: were talking about today in Mexico. Like their their goal 149 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 1: here is they want to become a leader again in 150 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: production of vanilla worldwide because they feel like they're the 151 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: best producers that the plants native to hear, but global market, 152 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: the prices dictated based on production and Madagascar lack of 153 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: production of Madagascar overproduction in Mexico, like so many factors. 154 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: It's just a hard crop. And now you know, Madagascar 155 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: produces most of the vanilla in the world. Of the 156 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: world's vanilla has produced Madagascar. That's insane. And there's so 157 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: I mean, if there's a hurricane, forget it. Well, here's 158 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: the thing. So today what like then I learned was 159 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: so Vera Cruz or this region of Veracruz isn't hurricane 160 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: written doesn't have hurricanes. And this particular region for Vanilla 161 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: is up against the mountains, so they have kind of 162 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: been pretty protected because of climate change. The last two 163 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: years they've gotten their first hurricanes and it destroyed the 164 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: vanilla plantations, a lot of them. And that is crazy 165 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: to me that, you know, climate change is happening, it's real, 166 00:10:55,559 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: and it affects people. It affects for all of those people, 167 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: their livelihoods, you know. So it's this entire cycle and 168 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: everything it revolves around the seasons and the cycles. I 169 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 1: mean only in April and it's you know, and it's 170 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: on the vine for nine months, and it's just, oh 171 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: my gosh, it's so delicate. It's just so incredibly delicate. 172 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: One thing that I found so interesting and when it 173 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 1: first made its way back to to Europe and there 174 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 1: was people, you know, writing about everything that was happening 175 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: that they were finding here in Mexico New Spain as 176 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: they call it. But there's this one doctor that was 177 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: sent over, Dr Francis Guernandez. He was sent over in 178 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,079 Speaker 1: fifteen seventy. He was here for seven years to record 179 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:47,319 Speaker 1: the observations of New Spain, and he describes six hundred plants. 180 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 1: He describes vanilla. Vanilla steeped in water causes the yurine 181 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: to flow admirably. Vanilla warms and strengthens the stomach, diminishes flatulence. 182 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: It gives strength and vigor to the mind. Heals female trouble, 183 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: and is said to protect against the bites of venomous animals. 184 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: But also mixed with chocolate, it excites the venereal appetite. 185 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: That is a mouthful of descriptors. Jesus, that is well, 186 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: so it was the first biagra. I guess I need 187 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:31,440 Speaker 1: to get pillow talk to this flowers so very interesting. 188 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,640 Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll be learning all about the 189 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 1: mysterious origins of vanilla. I don't know it's that mysterious, 190 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: but they are romantic. They're very romantic, and why European 191 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: colonists were confused for centuries about how to successfully grow it. 192 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 1: And you can listen to some of our observations at 193 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: the plantation. It gets a little sexy. Sexy time. Sexy time. 194 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be this is not a spoiler, but 195 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: somebody has sex well, because I've always heard this is 196 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: a funny story that Norma. Yeah, the woman from the farms, 197 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:28,160 Speaker 1: farms farms. So this region for centuries was the only 198 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: region in the world that produced vanilla. And originally it 199 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: was pollinated naturally because the flower is a hermaphrodite. It 200 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 1: has both male and female male and female organs that's 201 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 1: divided by a little flat So there is a little 202 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: bee called the Elasia b that's a long, skinny bee 203 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: that doesn't produce honey, and its only function is to pollinate, 204 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,199 Speaker 1: to pollinate the vanilla, and it goes into the male 205 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: our and then into the woman. That's it. That's all 206 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,840 Speaker 1: that be does. But the bee is not around anymore. 207 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: It's they're trying to bring it back, trying to bring 208 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: this feedback. I had always read and this is interesting 209 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: that the be that did that was the Mellie Melli 210 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: bona be mellipona be. And I asked not about today, 211 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: and she was so funny. She's like, oh, she's Mossa. 212 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,320 Speaker 1: She's like the little cheese massa be, the little gussie 213 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: by b. That's like checking you out and seeing if 214 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: you're pregnant, like what's happening. She's like the nosy neighbor 215 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: that goes. She wasn't the vollinator. She has a vollinator. 216 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: She's just a nosy be that wanted to see what 217 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: was happening. Yes, but it's the other one, the quiet, 218 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 1: hardworking b that doesn't get the credit, that doesn't get 219 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: the credits, the cheese mosa. She said, she's even she's 220 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: even a little fatter. It's so funny, Gorta one, because 221 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: the bet that we have today was the Vanilla planetformat. 222 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: But then there's another hype of Orca that's the bompona 223 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: that's a little bit bigger, and the b that's also 224 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: native to this region, and the be that pollinates. The 225 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: bombona is the same type of beat, but she's a 226 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: little more chubby, and she's she's like the hard working 227 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: she's very efficient. She's like a little gonna that. She 228 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:20,760 Speaker 1: was so funny the way she said, she's your little 229 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 1: a little hardworking, she's quiet, she does her job to 230 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: pollinates and leads. Oh my gosh. But now, and this 231 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: is the most fascinating thing to me, is that so 232 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: because Vanilla was native is native was native to Mexico. 233 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:40,920 Speaker 1: When the Spaniards came and took it back to Europe. 234 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:44,560 Speaker 1: It made its way down into Madagascar, which is now 235 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 1: today the number one producer of vanilla um. But they 236 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: realized they didn't have the bees to pollinated, So how 237 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: did they how did they plant it? How did they 238 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: reproduce it? Yeah, that's a crazy story because from Spain, 239 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: like you said, it came fro the conquerors, and it 240 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: was so important here, I mean so important. I mean 241 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: as important as you know, you could say corn, chocolate 242 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 1: and vanilla nilla, right, and vanilla was used to season 243 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: their chocolate drinks, and it was also uses to incense 244 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: for their temples, and sometimes they would mix it with 245 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: God bad, you know, for theirs. It was very very important. 246 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: It was. It was a very regal spice because it's 247 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: so hard, such little production, and it takes a year. 248 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: I mean there's only one harvest a year, so it 249 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: was very special, very special. So eventually from Spain it 250 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: made its way all over Europe, made its way to France, 251 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: and the French conquered you know, Africa, Africa, so they 252 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: brought it over in the nineteenth century. But it was 253 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: growing because it's a beautiful flower it's a vine, but 254 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,359 Speaker 1: it wasn't producing any beans because it wasn't being pollinated. 255 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: It was just like there, but it wasn't doing what 256 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: they wanted it to do. So the person that figure 257 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: out the way to hand pollinate the vanilla because they 258 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: don't have natural pollinators, because those little bees are only 259 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: in this contract, only in Mexico. Never, they can never know, 260 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: they could never. So was a young a twelve year 261 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:18,480 Speaker 1: old enslaved boy named Edmund Labs. And this twelve year 262 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: old child kickstarted a billion dollar industry. Yeah, well he's 263 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,119 Speaker 1: the one that figured out that he used a little 264 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,399 Speaker 1: stick to carefully join the male and female parts of 265 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: the flower together. And today the method is still known 266 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: as le just de Edmond, Edmund's gesture. Oh, Edmund's gesture. 267 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: That's beautiful. That's so named after him. It makes you 268 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:45,480 Speaker 1: think this is a twelve year old teil who was 269 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: clearly brilliant. Had he had the opportunity, he would have 270 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,160 Speaker 1: ruled the world, ruled the world, ruled the world. But yeah, 271 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: because of well you know again, I think you know 272 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: we talked about sugar coffee, like there are certain crops 273 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: that lend itself to slavery, and vanilla was one of 274 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 1: them back in the day, because it takes almost three 275 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 1: years for a vanilla orchard to balloon. Takes three years 276 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,320 Speaker 1: for the buyers to have a one flower, one flower 277 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:17,360 Speaker 1: three years before it begins producing flowers, and then when 278 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,439 Speaker 1: the orchids finally form, the farmers have to observe them 279 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: really carefully and have to work quickly when the flower 280 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,679 Speaker 1: bud opens, right, and it's only in the late morning, 281 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: and a single pollinated flower will only produce a single 282 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: vanilla bean. It's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah, And of course 283 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: you know they needed a lot of labor. Yeah, and that, Yeah, 284 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: it requires labor. The other thing I want so I 285 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: want to go back to say it was how to 286 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:51,280 Speaker 1: do that, how to hand pollinate it? That's crazy because 287 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: what I did today, you were nervous. I was sweating. 288 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: I've shaken. I think I needed my glasses because let 289 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: me tell you, there's one month that the orchid blooms 290 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: and we're here. How crazy that we were here for 291 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:06,320 Speaker 1: the pollinators, I mean for the blooming. And not only 292 00:19:06,359 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: does it bloom only in the month, it blooms only 293 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: two hours a day, and if it's not pollinated, it dies. 294 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:14,760 Speaker 1: And it dies. It dies, so you missed the whole year, 295 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: like your whole harvest is ruined if you do not. 296 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: And there's how many buds, I mean thousands, thousands and 297 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:24,800 Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of these little orchid buds, and they 298 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: all open at different times. So this one might open today, 299 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: five might open tomorrow. So so these vanilla producers go 300 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: every day in the morning because that's when it opens. 301 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: If it opens that day, and you have to find 302 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,239 Speaker 1: one of the orchands that it's open, you cut it 303 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 1: open on the side. I had to slice open the orchid, 304 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:50,440 Speaker 1: open up to the sexual organs. Is that what you 305 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: call the plant? Yea, My only plant reproduction by college 306 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: is by Greece to not Greece grease to re production reproduction. 307 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 1: But you're following too to work. That's what I did 308 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:17,640 Speaker 1: say you did? Okay, So I'm here with Eva were 309 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: we're in a vanilla field. We just have to describe 310 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: what we're seeing. First of all, this is the most 311 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,159 Speaker 1: peaceful greenhouse I've ever been in. It's so beautiful and 312 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 1: it's it's it's amazing. It's a little bit of cloudy 313 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: today and you could hear the birds, which she says 314 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:35,439 Speaker 1: affects whether they open or not. Okay, that's right, I 315 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: heard her say that. So it doesn't they don't really. 316 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: So there's not a lot open today, right because it's 317 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,359 Speaker 1: such a cloudy, because it's due cloudy. They need the sun. 318 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 1: But it's beautiful. It's this like orchis orchid. It's this 319 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: yellow orchid with these in these thick green vine they 320 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: look like succulents. They do. They're really thick, really really 321 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: thick leaves. Yeah, they're really thick leaves. And yes, this 322 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 1: flower one our produces one bean bean. I just pollinated it. 323 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: I just impregnated the bean with this little stick. It's 324 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:12,959 Speaker 1: a little wooden stick just for you guys to get 325 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: a feeling of where we are. This is. This is 326 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:23,479 Speaker 1: a very small production here. Um organic. She doesn't use 327 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 1: any chemicals, and there are people that do this process 328 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: one orchid at a time, and so with this little stick. 329 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 1: I was very stressed by the way because I wasn't 330 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: even breathing um. But really really fascinating how it's made 331 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:43,680 Speaker 1: and it's endemic to this region, and it's endemic to 332 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: this region. Were in Vera, Cruz, the land of Vanilla. 333 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: Amazing it's beautiful, like, I want this plant in my home. 334 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: So how did you impregnate it? You have to slice 335 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 1: it open, and that's the male oregan right here and 336 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 1: the females underneath it. So you scrape it and smash 337 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: it down. We'll not smash. It's very delicate. You have 338 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: to be delicate like a woman in nine months, nine 339 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: months for this baby. That is amazing to me. I 340 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: can't imagine doing that a thousands and thousands of times 341 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:19,800 Speaker 1: in one harvest. No, well, you said, can I have 342 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 1: a glass of wine? Like? Did I just have sex? 343 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:30,360 Speaker 1: Did we all just have sex? I just experience this together? Concentrations? 344 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: It was crazy. It was crazy to think I did one. 345 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: I mean how many they have to do a day 346 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 1: within a month. Yeah, and each one, each flower produces 347 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,959 Speaker 1: one vanilla bean and in nine it ripens in nine months, 348 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: and then they picked the bean and then it's a 349 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 1: whole other, like a whole other, like hundred days to 350 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: get the vanilla bean that we buy at the store. 351 00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, hungry for history will be right back. 352 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you love vanilla. Vanilla? What do you 353 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 1: make with vanilla? Do you everything? Bake with it? Do 354 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:22,080 Speaker 1: you ever think my famous cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving is 355 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 1: made with vanilla bean, Like you have to cut two 356 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 1: vanilla beans, have to scoop out the beans, you put 357 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: it in and then you throw the two beans in there. 358 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: It's my poached pear cranberry sauce. So it's like poached 359 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,680 Speaker 1: pears in this cranberry sauce of citrus and vanilla. That 360 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: sounds delicious. Oh, it's amazing. It's in my cookbook. And 361 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,120 Speaker 1: then the other thing I make vanilla bean ice cream, 362 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:43,919 Speaker 1: And that's my favorite thing because you see all the 363 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: little seeds against the white. I don't get vanilla ice cream. 364 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,360 Speaker 1: I give vanilla bean ice cream and a little goes 365 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: a long way. Yeah, they're vanilla there. Today I had 366 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 1: a moment at this vanilla I got a little emotional 367 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: with the ice cream. Yeah. My dad Ad used to 368 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: like Hogg and does vanilla ice cream. That was like 369 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: his thing. Every day after every meal, he had to 370 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: have a scoop of vanilla ice cream. And I was 371 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: just standing there on the side was vanilla bean. I 372 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: it was vanilla. It was there vanilla bean ice cream 373 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,360 Speaker 1: or was the one that my dad he liked any 374 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: but yeah, vanilla bean. Yeah, especially, and he used to 375 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,959 Speaker 1: make ice cream all the time. But yeah, just looking 376 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: at it and just being out with the birds and 377 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: the heat and just the moment and just eating this, 378 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: I was like a little bit like I had to 379 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: walk away. I was just like, Oh my god, this 380 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,640 Speaker 1: is just this is life. It's just so and it's 381 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 1: amazing how a flavor could just trigger so many emotions, 382 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: so many memories, and so yeah, I love vanilla. Just 383 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,680 Speaker 1: whenever I used a vanilla bean, I always stick the 384 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,160 Speaker 1: I used, you know, the scream, the seeds. I put 385 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: it in my sugar, so my sugar. Every time I 386 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: opened up my sugar, it smells like vanilla. What I'm 387 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: going to do that, I'll just started doing that. Such 388 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: a great idea, you just put it in there. I 389 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 1: usually cook with the vanilla bean. What do you use 390 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 1: vanilla for? What do you cook it for? You know 391 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,920 Speaker 1: what I love to make. I love to make medal lanes, 392 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: French medal lanes. I make a brown butter with the 393 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 1: vanilla beans with the seeds. And I love to make 394 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: ice cream as well. And I love to make flan, 395 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: vanilla fl vanilla flan with the vanilla seeds. Those are 396 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: the main things I do with vanilla, the flam the 397 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: ice cream. What recipe did we learn today that I 398 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 1: was like, this doesn't sound good. I don't know about 399 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 1: this was vanilla cream chicken. Oh my gosh, And let 400 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: me tell you all, I'm making that the minute I 401 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: get back home. It was delicious. It was delicious because 402 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 1: it had like twelve sticks of butter. Yeah, but it 403 00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: wasn't sweet because you, like you said, vanilla is not sweet. 404 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,680 Speaker 1: Vanilla is vanilla. Yeah, vanilla is bitter. It's its own thing, 405 00:25:51,840 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: its own thing. Yeah, you guys. We had this cream 406 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: emy chicken, which was basically like any cream based broth 407 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: because it was heavy cream here they used nata, which 408 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,080 Speaker 1: is the fat of milk. Right, so I think we 409 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: can substitute with heavy cream. I think we can do 410 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 1: with heavy cream. I don't know if Crime Fresh would 411 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: be too heavy now I think it would be heavy. 412 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: But it does have a crime fresh feel in a 413 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: sense of Crime Fresh isn't sweet. It's a little tart, 414 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 1: but not that isn't tart. Crime Fresh is tart. You're right. 415 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,720 Speaker 1: I would probably use heavy cream maybe, like but she 416 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,480 Speaker 1: used cream, She used cream. She used, no wonder. It 417 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: was so good. So what what are the fat? Could 418 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,240 Speaker 1: we substitute it with maybe a little crimb fresh or 419 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: a little ricotta ricotta? It ricto ricotta. It's ricotta. It's 420 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:49,040 Speaker 1: the ricotta because it's very mild, but it's cream like 421 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: we don't have not in l A. We don't have 422 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: not that in l A. But ricotta ricotta. It is 423 00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: exactly ricotta. So heavy cream ricotta, sauted on ins and butter. 424 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: You pour that and vanilla bean and you put that 425 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,719 Speaker 1: in a blender and you cook it with the chicken 426 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: and it just comes out amazing. But then the tortillas 427 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: is like the piece to resistance vanilladas which were vanilla 428 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,919 Speaker 1: InChI la das. It's like an enchila, but instead of 429 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: putting in chile. Yeah, she put it in the cream 430 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 1: and the naias and it was their family recipe. It 431 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: was so generations old. Yeah, it was so that was 432 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 1: good and topped with vanilla powder, vanilla powder, which I've 433 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: never seen, I mean they sell that at this I 434 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 1: haven't seen it, only seen extract and bean and the beans. Yeah, 435 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: they do have it, and they have the paste. I've 436 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: seen it. Yeah. Oh my gosh, it was so good. 437 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: And then we had latanels plantains in a vanilla liqueur 438 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:57,280 Speaker 1: flambay for dessert with vanilla bean ice cream on top. 439 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: So the vanilla bean ice cream just melted on top 440 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 1: of these vanilla lacore planting. It was the best meal, 441 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: best ever. I'm never gonna forget today. Yeah, I swear 442 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 1: like seeing vanilla has been like a lifelong dream. I 443 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,600 Speaker 1: know me too, And today I was like, what a 444 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: memorable experience, like once in a lifetime. Everybody has to 445 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 1: come see vanilla if you can. Yes, I would encourage 446 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: buying Mexican vanilla just because I'm Mexican. Yes, and to 447 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: support to support our people's what are people's but also 448 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: it's it's endemic to this to this country and they're 449 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: trying to bring it back, and they're trying to bring 450 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 1: it back. Yeah, okay, well you know what we should do, y'all. 451 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: We're going to post this recipe. Yes, well, our version 452 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 1: of it, our version of it. We'll figure it out. 453 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: We'll figure it out, we'll test it, and we're going 454 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: to post it for you guys. But until then, I 455 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 1: hope you have a vanilla latte. I hope you have 456 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: a vanilla ice cream. I hope you have vanilla dreams. 457 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,920 Speaker 1: Dreams when people go there, Oh, it's so vanilla. That's 458 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: the worst metaphor for boring, because there's nothing boring about vanilla. 459 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: On the contrary, vanilla is so incredibly complex and exciting. 460 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: It has just stories and stories and layers and layers, 461 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: and it's so yeah. History, Hungry for History. Wow, thanks 462 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: for listening everyone, Thank you. 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