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Saffron: The Story of the World’s Most Expensive Spice - JSTOR Daily
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We're focused on cooking and the science behind how it changes our food. Some chemistry, a little biology, whatever it takes to explore a critical aspect of everyday life.
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Bizarre that such a costly substance would be used as a dye for clothing. Why pay what’s likely the equivalent of HP ink when you can just get a box of Rit yellow dye at the supermarket?
Surely the price will drop when someone figures out that drones can fly around and harvest the saffron.