South Goa, India
Today we've spent a wonderful day at a spice plantation where everything was grown organically. The excitement of learning that peppercorns grow on a creeping, almost ivy-looking plant, in little bunches, is indescribable. Look at the pictures and see! Vanilla is hand pollinated, making it the second most expensive 'spice' in the world after saffron, which grows in Jammu and Kashmir and other cold climates. Vanilla is also a creeper but has to be grown on non org...