Customer Spotlight: Anna’s Gourmet Goodies
At Cook's we love our customers! Below is a re-post from Anna's Gourmet Goodies blog! Anna's Gourmet Goodies makes divine cookies and brownies. In fact, Josephine, our president says they're the best in the world! We are so proud to have our vanilla included in their...
Madagascar Presidential Election 2018
There’s a big election this month that we at Cook’s Vanilla are watching closely. It’s in Madagascar, and the outcome has the potential to affect pure vanilla bean prices, already at near record highs. Madagascar is the world’s largest source of pure vanilla and a...
Cook’s VANILLA MARKET REPORT August 2018 : Vanilla Price Prediction
Vanilla Prices Are Falling, Finally. Question is How Far and How Fast. We are just back from Madagascar’s opening of the 2018 vanilla bean harvest, known as the “green campaign,” when farmers bring their green vanilla beans to village markets. This year’s crop is...
Pure Vanilla Adulteration
Pure vanilla buyer beware. Extremely high prices for vanilla beans -- still ranging well above $525 a kilo -- mean that the price of the pure vanilla extract made from these beans is also going to be quite expensive. That fact is inescapable. Vanilla users have had to...
Cook’s VANILLA BEAN MARKET REPORT May 2018
Vanilla bean prices remain at record highs, but we are detecting signs of market softening as we head into the 2018 /19 vanilla season. The “green campaign” -- when buyers flock to the Madagascar bush to buy harvested vanilla beans -- officially opens July 1, a...
Mexico VANILLA MARKET Update March 2018
The Mexican Vanilla Market: A Silver Lining? The bean that conquered the world’s palate is flourishing again in its native land, Mexico. If there is any silver lining in the crisis rocking the vanilla market, it’s the revival of Mexican vanilla, now...
Raymond R. Lochhead April 28, 1923 — March 3, 2018
“My customers are my best friends.” Our Dad, owner of Cook’s and our sister company R. R. Lochhead Mfgr. Co., died Mar. 3 with Emilie, his wife of 72 years, and his family at his side. Ray Lochhead was an extraordinary man. He created all that we are. We will...
The Mysteries of Mexican Vanilla
The birthplace of vanilla, Mexico produces some of the world’s finest vanilla beans. But there is often a lot of confusion about Mexican vanilla extracts. Let’s untangle them. All vanilla beans derive their quality not from the region where they are grown, but from...
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract
How to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract Anyone who has gone to the grocery store to pick up a bottle of Pure Vanilla Extract knows that vanilla extract prices are sky high! But vanilla extract is an essential ingredient for baked goods and desserts that simply are not...
The Art of Curing Vanilla Beans
The Art of Curing Vanilla beans don’t come off the vine black and shiny as we know and love them. They start out green, their tips yellowing as they ripen and loosen their grip on the mother plant. At that moment of harvest, the vanilla bean begins a fraught and...
