Vanilla bean paste and extract can generally be substituted with a 1:1 ratio; start with a teaspoon of each and add more ...

“Vanilla bean paste is a great substitute, and you can find that from all your grocery stores now, although nothing compares to a vanilla bean. They're so prized and they should be.

The Vanilla Bean Project’s first shipment with Grain de Sail is set to depart France on April 5. The Grain de Sail boat will carry raw vanilla beans from France to New York.

In 2017, after a cyclone decimated farms in the mountains of northeast Madagascar, where around 80 percent of the world’s natural vanilla is grown, the price of beans leaped to more than $600 ...