Israeli-Grown Vanilla Aims To Disrupt The Industry

Westside Gazette ^ | September 22, 2021

[nickcarraway]

Vanilla, like chocolate and avocados, is native to what is today Mexico.

[mylife]

pairs well with pistachios

[corkoman]

Most of us have rarely tasted real vanilla - the artificial stuff is close to the natural stuff for most noses. I suppose these guys think that someone will pay $$$ for the real stuff.

Same with Wasabi we eat at Japanese restaurants - we get mostly horseradish with food coloring. The real stuff is really good but super $$$.

[Blurb2350]

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, it’s miraculous what the Israelis have coaxed from that wretched little scrap of land. I suspect it excites their neighbors’ envy.

[mylife]

Jeremy Clarkson grew wasabi when he calculated it was $5,000 lb

[mylife]

there’s the rub...

[PGR88]

Madagascar, the worlds largest grower and exporter, has an average IQ in the lowest quartile of the world.

I am sure that Israelis can easily figure out the process.

[nickcarraway]

Pistachios are native to Persia and Afghanistan.

[Openurmind]

Currently $1 per bean on average.

[FatherofFive]

miraculous what the Israelis have coaxed from that wretched little scrap of land

Funny. Moses wandered for 40 years, and found the one place in the Middle East that has no oil

[DuncanWaring]

Given a chance, their neighbors would burn it all to the ground.

[gitmo]

I hope they succeed.

[nickcarraway]

Well, I don’t think the place he was fleeing from had oil either.

[mylife]

and grow in many a desert climate

[mylife]

LOL!!!!!

[Blurb2350]

They’ve already done so! Remember when the Israelis were obliged to pull out of an area they had settled and turn it back to the Palestinians? They made sure that their elaborate growing operations — greenhouses and such — were in perfect working order and left instructions to keep them running smoothly and profitably. The Palestinians immediately looted everything they could carry off and wrecked the rest.

[mylife]

I have not seen a red pistachio since the 70’s they come from Iran, ours are white and grown in ca

[nickcarraway]

Do you have an article?

[nickcarraway]

Red Pistachios, Where Did They Go and Why?

[Openurmind]

Temps are probably right. But with this crop you have to create Wet or Dry seasons even if artificially. And they only bloom one day in a year. And they have to be pollinated within a 12 hour window on that one day a year.