Vanilla
Subtitle: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: November 4, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781585423637
Subjects: Vanilla; Specific Ingredients - Herbs, Spices, Condiments; General; Cooking / Wine; History: World; Utilization; History / United States / General; Cookery (Vanilla); Cooking; History
First sentence: The story of vanilla begins in Mesoamerica, the ancient realm of the earliest Mexicans and Central Americans, an area that extended from what is now Mexico to northern Nicaragua, in the time before the Spaniards came to the Americas and conquered the indigenous people in 1519.