Amateka ya vanilla ninkuru yukuri yingendo kwisi. Kandi bitangira hashize imyaka 180 hamwe numuhungu wimyaka 12.
Byose byatangiriye muri Mexico, aho Totonacs, abasangwabutaka, bavumbuye bwa mbere vanilla. Basaruye ibishishwa biva mu gasozi barabikoresha kugira ngo banywe ibinyobwa byabo bidasanzwe. Abaziteki batsinze Totonacs, nabo bashutswe nibi birungo byiza.
Abanyaburayi bageze muri Amerika, bazanye ibihingwa n’ibirungo, harimo na vanilla, guhinga muri koloni zabo. Uku nuburyo vanilla yatangiye kuzenguruka inyanja, amaherezo igera mu Bufaransa mu ntangiriro ya 1600.
Ariko nubwo yazengurutse isi, vanilla ntiyashoboye kwera imbuto kure yurugo. Ageze ku kirwa cya Bourbon, ubu cyitwa Reunion, ni bwo habaye ikintu gitangaje.
Umunsi umwe, umuja witwa Edmond, ufite imyaka 12 gusa, yavumbuye ibanga ryo kwanduza vanilla. Yitegereje neza indabyo ya vanilla amenya ko akeneye gufasha mu kwanduza imbuto kugira ngo imbuto zikure. Ubwenge bwe bwahinduye inganda za vanilla, bituma ikirwa cya Reunion kiba producer ukomeye.
Ikibabaje nuko Edmond atigeze amenyekana ku gaciro ke nyako muri kiriya gihe. Yashinjwaga ubujura akatirwa igifungo. Ariko umurage wacyo ubaho: uyumunsi, vanilla iracyafite intoki ku isi yose, bigatuma buri podo ifite agaciro kandi idasanzwe.
Inkuru idasanzwe rero ya vanilla iratwibutsa ko nubuvumbuzi buto bushobora kugira ingaruka zikomeye kwisi. Kandi ubutaha iyo wishimiye ice cream ya vanilla cyangwa cake ihumura neza, ibuka urugendo rudasanzwe iki kirungo cyagenze kugirango kikugereho.