Tucked in a valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas of the Indian Kashmir region is the town of Pampore, famed for its farms ...

Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, taking hundreds of man-hours to harvest. Don't make this major mistake next time you want to use some.

I prefer to harvest the flowers by hand because I don’t like to damage the other parts of the plants. Narrator: Saffron comes from the saffron crocus flower. And each flower has three red ...

Nestled in a picturesque valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas lies Pampore, a town in the Kashmir region, celebrated as ...

As well as a spectacular location, Pampore is India's centre for saffron - a spice so valuable that it is sometimes called red gold. Derived from the crocus plant, saffron fetches around $1,500 ...

Bulb-like corms, at top, produce saffron crocuses. Each purple flower contains three red stigmas, which are dried and cured to make saffron.Credit...Gabriella Angotti-Jones for The New York Times ...

Each crocus has three small stigmas that have ... to make sure they can pick it all in time. Almost all of the saffron planted can flower within one week of the year. And to maintain the quality ...