{"id":38220,"date":"2021-07-13T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=38220"},"modified":"2021-07-20T19:44:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T03:44:42","slug":"cooking-up-winning-recipes-with-florida-grown-vanilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/13\/cooking-up-winning-recipes-with-florida-grown-vanilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking up Winning Recipes with Florida-Grown Vanilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/vanilla-valentine\/\">Vanilla<\/a> is a very delicious orchid, and it&#8217;s one of the most expensive flavorings in the world. The majority of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00PMUNEK6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00PMUNEK6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=abouorch-20&amp;linkId=1f740687df4aa1f29b937195d0066297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vanilla beans<\/a> are grown in Madagascar, and the USA imports a lot of them. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifas.ufl.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/15\/uf-ifas-miami-chocolatier-cook-up-winning-recipes-with-florida-grown-vanilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists are working to establish a vanilla industry in South Florida&#8217;s hot, humid climate.<\/a> A plant geneticist at the University of Florida has tested hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/cultivar-names\/\">cultivars<\/a>. He&#8217;s also teamed up with a Miami chocolatier to cook with vanilla from the university&#8217;s greenhouses, and it was a great success. The variety they used has many desirable traits, including high <a href=\"http:\/\/cooksvanilla.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-vanillin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vanillin<\/a> levels. They&#8217;re hoping to prove that it can become a sustainable Florida crop. If they&#8217;re successful, home-grown vanilla may find a place in America&#8217;s kitchens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanilla is a very delicious orchid, and it&#8217;s one of the most expensive flavorings in the world. The majority of vanilla beans are grown in Madagascar, and the USA imports a lot of them. Scientists are working to establish a vanilla industry in South Florida&#8217;s hot, humid climate. A plant geneticist at the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-warm-growers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38220"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38354,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38220\/revisions\/38354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}