0_Apprentice
Vanilla is my favorite flavor for everything, even in the bedroom!
1_Wizard
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids, were you aware of that?
0_Apprentice
Oh I had no idea, but I do love vanilla icecream in bed, yes sir! How is it extracted?
1_Wizard
well it came from very long ago! Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid.
0_Apprentice
Oh wow, how new is the flavor? Did they have it in ancient times?
1_Wizard
Yes they did, the flavor we know of now was brought back to the new world with chocolate in the 1520s by Hernan Cortes.
0_Apprentice
Oh yes, chocolate and vanilla, a great combo. What other flavors go good with vanilla, do you thinl?
1_Wizard
There are a lot of flavors that go great with vanilla, in 1837 belgian botanist Charles Morren discovered a way to artificially polinate the plant and extract the flavor.
0_Apprentice
Oh so he discovered it by accident by trying to develop a way to help the plant spread artificially, yes? What's your favorite flavor to go with vanilla