The luxury of Vanilla

Life isn’t fair, is it? Vanilla adds such a luxurious flavour to baked goods, ice-cream, alcohol, chocolate, tea and more, and yet, somehow, the word ‘vanilla’ has become a synonym for ‘beige’, which itself is a synonym for plain or boring.

But take a dried vanilla pod, gently scrape out the seeds and you will experience a scent and, ultimately, flavour like few others. It has the power to transport