The flight from Paris to the island of Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, takes 11 hours, skirting the smoldering crater of the Piton de la Fournaise volcano before landing ...

Spanish explorers took vanilla plants from Mexico back to Europe, but vanilla was not successfully grown in tropical European colonies until the 1800s, after a French scientist figured out that the ...

Unlike corporate plantations that dominate much of the global vanilla trade, Jones & Co. Vanillas partners exclusively with small agricultural communities, supporting independent farmers whose ...