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Vanilla’s Fated Lovers

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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Vanilla’s Fated Lovers

Today the word vanilla is often used to describe something as plain, boring or maybe even bland. However, the history of vanilla is anything but! Vanilla comes from a tropical orchid and was first cultivated by the pre-Columbian Totonac people of Mexico. Totonac mythology told a story of the goddess Princess Xanat who ran off [...]

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