SANTA CRUZ, CA November 21, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Coffee, tea, chocolate, vanilla, sugar, fruits, nuts, spices. We love them, take them for granted and assume they'll always be available. But how much do we actually know about these everyday foods, flavors and ingredients? Who grows them? Why does it matter? For that matter, where exactly are the tropics?
Patricia Rain, known worldwide as The Vanilla Queen, has created a stunning new look and broader focus to her socially-conscious educational site and small business, The Vanilla.COMpany, located at vanilla.com. The site celebrates the foods, flavors and ingredients produced in tropical regions worldwide as well as the people who grow them and the ecology and issues of this remarkable, vulnerable and fragile land found twenty degrees north and south of the equator.
Wars were fought, countries were sold or traded, the slave trade flourished, all for the love of sugar and spices, coffee and vanilla. Billions of dollars are made in the sale of these goods yet the farmers continue to live marginal lives, increasingly abandoning their land in a desperate attempt to find work in cities and industrialized countries.
Rain's site offers valuable information, resources, stories of hope and possibility, recipes, book reviews, information for farmers, travel opportunities a blog and much more.
Patricia Rain is passionate about raising awareness and encouraging stewardship of the tropics by those of us in industrialized countries. We can be the change we wish to see.
About The Vanilla.COMpany
Patricia Rain, Vanilla Queen, is available for interviews and speaking engagements. She can be reached at rain@vanilla.com.
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