Ideally, you want whole cardamom pods for this recipe. Ground cardamom or cardamom powder won’t be as flavorful because the ...

White cardmom pods are simply the bleached form of green pods. This process dates back centuries and has a practical purpose in cooking and baking.

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 ...