Researchers are testing whether growing saffron, one of the most expensive spices in the world, could help Georgia farms.

Image Saffron flowers bloom in a small garden outside the front ... “It’s the most expensive spice in the world. I want to make some rice and see what it tastes like.” Paul Miller, a retiree ...

The next most expensive spice? Vanilla ... to hand-pick 170,000 flowers to create just one pound of saffron. The purple flowers only bloom over a 6-week period from late September to early ...

The next most expensive spice? Vanilla ... to hand-pick 170,000 flowers to create just one pound of saffron. The purple flowers only bloom over a 6-week period from late September to early ...

Rumi Spice The tiny rust-red stigmas need to be painstakingly separated from the petals, stamens and the rest of the flower head Their saffron is now doing well with specialist buyers and high end ...

Saffron is undoubtedly the most expensive ... cloves are used in both cooking and traditional medicine. The spice is harvested before the flowers bloom and then dried in the sun.

The Philipps fell for the sweet, musky flavor of saffron — and were intrigued to learn it was the world’s most expensive spice ... that produce the saffron flower. And this past November ...

And real saffron can cost you over $10,000 per kilogram. Sought after for thousands of years as a spice, a dye, and a medicine, you need over 150 flowers to make just 1 gram of saffron.

Nestled in a picturesque valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas lies Pampore, a town in the Kashmir region, celebrated as ...

He explained saffron ... produces spice. Mazzouli uses the offspring from the same bulbs he bought 25 years ago. “We plant the bulbs in August. And then in October, we harvest the flower ...

This is where most of saffron is farmed in India, the world's second-largest producer behind Iran of the spice, which costs up to 325,000 rupees ($3,800) a kg (2.2 pounds) because it is so ...