At the Table
Pull up a chair. I want to tell you why the little bottle in your cabinet costs what it does — because the answer isn't marketing. It's a twelve-year-old boy, an orchid that refused to fruit, and a technique the whole world still copies today.
At twelve years old, Edmond Albius developed the hand-pollination technique that transformed vanilla into a global crop. His name deserves a place beside the industry he changed.