香草，如今各类甜点中平平无奇的香料，其背后却藏着惊心动魄的故事。从墨西哥热带雨林到马达加斯加小岛，手工授粉、气候变迁与文化传承交织出一段独特传奇。探秘真实香草的秘密，感受它那丰富多彩的芳香世界吧。
There is nothing vanilla about vanilla.
Despite being synonymous with being boring and bland, vanilla is a beautifully nuanced flavor.
And its backstory?
Probably one of the wildest culinary tales you'll find in your pantry.
Vanilla is part of the orchid family, and if you're a plant parent like me, you know that orchids are notoriously temperamental.
The only orchid I can keep alive is one made of Lego.
There are roughly twenty-five to thirty thousand different species of orchids, and they're incredibly adaptable.
They can grow almost everywhere except for Antarctica, making them one of the world's largest flowering plant families.
Even though they can grow from the humid rainforests of the Amazon, to the dry arid terrain of the Sonoran Desert, each orchid has its own hyper specific needs when it comes to temperature, sunlight, humidity, and so on.
This is true for vanilla, which can only grow between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
