Marnalou, if you don't mind my asking, what are you paying for vanilla beans these days? Are they tahitian vanilla? The last time, in 2003, we paid about $1 per bean on the cruise. I've heard that the price of vanilla has skyrocketted world-wide since then. I know that a small bottle of vanilla extract here now costs about $8 CDN. And it is nowhere as nice as the vanilla extract I made from the Tahitian beans.
