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Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean BN_Top_100 and the first person toThe fascinating and wide ranging history of vanilla, from the sixteenth century to today Vanilla is one of the most expensive of flavoringsso valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in the early daysand yet it is everywhere. It is a key ingredient in dishes ranging from crme brle to Japanese purin. It is the quintessential ice cream flavor in the United States. Eric T. Jennings explains how the worlds only edible orchid, originally endemic