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Learn how to cultivate saffron at home and discover three easy, delicious ways to include this golden spice in daily meals.

"The way a flower perfumes the air, saffron perfumes a dish," says Ronna Welsh of Purple Kale Kitchenworks. "Its flavor is indirect, ephemeral; it’s almost hard to get your taste buds around ...

The red strands, right in the middle, are pure saffron, which is what we’re looking for.” A single flower produces just three red strands; one gram of saffron is made from around 350 strands.

Tasleema Banoo poses for a photograph while plucking crocus flowers, the stigma of which produces saffron, on a farm in Khrew, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, on Oct. 31, 2020.

Saffron is expensive because it comes from a crocus, a purple flower that originated in Greece. And it takes 75,000 crocus flowers to make 1 pound of saffron, Bhide says.

A few months later, in 2021, the couple put $20,000 on a credit card to order 60,000 corms, the bulb-like stems that produce the saffron flower. And this past November, they harvested 250 grams of ...