“The vanilla matchmakers set out before dawn to fertilize thousands of flowers. » They only have a few hours – the space of a morning – between the orchid blooming and the moment when it withers, then falls, to attack the vines. Nine months after this manual fertilization, the pod can be picked, still by hand, and at the appropriate time. It is then green, it must be dried in the sun then refined. Quite an art.
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