04 | Edmond Albius: the father of vanilla

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The curious story of how Madagascar came to be the centre of global vanilla production.YouTube link for this episode: https://youtu.be/saMmAdQibuIEmail: [email protected]: ⁠ @RichardLikesHistory ⁠ X: @skerkwagga1939Produced by Richard Marais(0:00) Vanilla's origins(2:31) Enter the French(3:59) Origins of the Malagasy people(4:34) The pollination problem(5:13) Edmond Albius: the enslaved boy wonder(7:25) Modern synthetic vanilla

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