tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8442413201716868847.post-53268395452197159092007-05-03T10:36:00.000-07:002007-05-03T10:37:33.636-07:00It is really incredible how the misinformation on saffron is so rampant in the USA: yesterday I got a call from a pasta manufacturer that was told by the “exporter” that the price has quadrupled because the saffron harvest had failed in Spain. Wake up everyone! There was no draught in Spain, the draught was in Iran and that is why the price of Spanish saffron quadrupled, because they get all their saffron from IRAN. Again Spain produces ONLY 400 kg of saffron and they export 12,000 to 20,000 to the USA ALONE. Where do you think they get it if they do not grow it? Remember, in Europe, when a commodity comes into the European Union “bulk”, once they repack it becomes “a product of the country that packs it”, which does not mean it was grown there. Entiende?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8442413201716868847-5326839545219715909?l=vanillasaffron.blogspot.com'/></div>Juan J. San Mameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02560200034543980370noreply@blogger.com2