Take your baking to the next level with you: homemade vanilla extract! Once you try it, you’ll never go back to store-bought again. Making your own vanilla extract is simple, and it’s way more ...

Vanilla suffers typecasting as ordinary. In software, it's vanilla versus custom. In finance, it's vanilla versus exotic. In the bedroom, it's vanilla versus kinky. But vanilla hardly counts as plain.

Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner has spent over a decade working as a writer in New York City. She currently covers all aspects of food, dining, travel and lifestyle trends and the intersection of culture, ...