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The Lightbulb Moment: Vanilla: The Bean That Shaped the Future of Food

The Lightbulb Moment: Vanilla: The Bean That Shaped the Future of Food

In 1841 on the small island of Réunion, a 12-year-old slave did something no one had done before the vanilla bean takes the world by storm, sparking the artificial flavor revolution and forever changing how we eat.

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