The Spice That Hooked Medieval Nuns
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Listen to this great podcast on Gastropod about Saffron that The Atlantic covered earlier this year.
"This episode, we visit his field at a secret location in Essex to learn how saffron is grown, hand-harvested, and dried—and about Smale’s uphill battle to uncover the lost art of successfully coaxing saffron from England’s soggy soils."