where did vanilla originate
In Europe, too, chocolate was always served together with vanilla for more than a century after it arrived from America. Then people began to use sugar instead of vanilla to sweeten chocolate, and vanilla became a flavoring on its own. All the vanilla in the world was grown in Mexico until 1836, when scientists found ways of growing it in other lands. Today, most of the worldâs vanilla comes from Madagascar and other islands in the Indian Ocean.