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The pollination of vanilla flowers was not understood by Europeans for hundreds of years, so efforts to cultivate vanilla outside its native territory failed. To grow vanilla at home, you will need to provide heat and humidity, space for the ungainly vanilla vines to grow, and patience. For this reason, most of the "vanilla" products we buy today are flavoured not with true vanilla, but with "vanillin". [Extracted from the article]

Several recipes including Roast lamb neck with kale, feta and drill, Twelve hour Indian-spiced lamb shoulder with saffron pilaf, and slow-roasted lamb rack with white beans and black garlic alioli.

The article presents baker Nandine Ingram's several sweet recipes for Easter including Italian Easter tart, chocolate manjari cake, and saffron and sour-cherry brioche.

The article several recipes for dinner including anchovy and silverbeet on toast, pheasant and ham hock terrine with rhubarb-apple chutney, and slow-baked quince with saffron custard.

The article presents several Spanish recipes, including Manchego and Corn Fritters, Morcilla-Stuffed Squid With Lentils and Saffron Alioli and Pyrénées-Style Slow-Cooked Lamb With Sherry and Paprika.

The article presents several soup recipes, including Prawn Bisque, Chicken Broth with Bone Marrow Dumplings and Mussel and Saffron Veloute.

Slices of boiled egg with salsa verde and a hollandaise-like mayonnaise steer this toast into almost-breakfast territory. My latest flour-and-water crush at Joel Valvasori-Pereza's house of carbs: these toothsome noodles, spiced with saffron and sauced with a lush pork sausage, sage and fennel-seed ragù. Slippery rice noodles loaded up with a chilli-rich, ragù-like sauce that's topped off with a tumble of spring onion, fried shallot and roasted buckwheat. [Extracted from the article]

Presents an article about the Festival de la Rosa del Azafran, a celebration for saffron in Consuegra, a small town in the Spanish region of La Mancha. Description of the event; Way in which Saffron threads are harvested; Highlights of a plucking competition; Dishes prepared by residents during the festival.

Several recipes for roast capsicum are presented including roast red capsicum and saffron soup, roast capsicum and baked ricotta on garlic crostini and roast capsicum and sausage strozzapreti.

The article previews the saffron taglierini created by chef Guy Grossi and sold in Grossi's restaurants and the Healthcote Estate.