black cardamom and white (a derivative of green). Their main difference? Harvesting. Cardamom comes from the seeds within the pods of a cardamom plant, a member of the ginger family, and it ...

Green cardamom is the third most expensive spice in the world, after saffron and vanilla. Just 100 grams of the spice can cost about $9. That's about $90 for a kilogram. But getting that little ...

At a market near my old apartment, I bought six black cardamom pods for 9,000 Vietnamese dong, or 39 cents. They were about twice as large as their thumbnail-size green cousins, which are used ...