Cardamom is a spice consisting of the pods and seeds of plants in the ginger family. Pods can be used whole or crushed to release the seeds, which can also be ground into a powder. The flavor of ...

That's about $90 for a kilogram. But getting that little bit of cardamom requires a lot of work. Harvesters need to collect 6 kilograms of raw pods by hand to produce just 1 kilogram of green ...

Cardamom is widely used in Indian cooking and in Scandinavian baking. It can be bought in the pod, as seeds or ground but the ground seeds soon lose their flavour so it's preferable to buy the ...