Relishing Madagascar Vanilla's Exotic Flavor
By Scott Davis

Many people assume that vanilla beans are beans in terms of physical form. In actuality, they are not really beans per se. vanilla beans are actually the pods of delicate vanilla orchids and due to the discovery of the hand-pollination technique, the cultivation of the vanilla orchid started on the Bourbon Island - now known as Runion Island - as initiated by the French. It is also for this reason that Madagascar vanilla is often known as Bourbon vanilla.

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