In order for an inmate to attend the funeral of an immediate family member, a Court Order from the charging or sentencing court must be obtained. Family members can contact the court clerk in the concerned jurisdiction for more information.
Real Vanilla is Natural, but Natural Vanilla is Fake. What most gourmands would define as ârealâ and ânaturalâ vanilla flavoring is simple: Vanilla beans steeped in alcohol. But vanillin, the chemical responsible for vanillaâs taste and flavor, is a far more complicated beast. Chemically identical to real vanilla, artificial vanilla can be made from clove oil, pine bark, coal tar, bran, even cow dung. Until fairly recently, the chemical lignin, derived from wood pulp, was the most common way of synthesizing vanillin.
But Mexico was still known as the home of the world's best vanilla, so the producers didn't admit what they were doing. They disguised the artificial taste by adding coumarin, an extract of the tonka bean, Dipteryx odorata. Coumarin tastes and smells just like vanilla, only more so.ost of the vanilla sold in Mexico is synthetic, though it doesn't all have coumarin in it. Telltale signs of the fake stuff: clear, or dark and murky (the real stuff is amber colored and translucent), low alcohol content (genuine vanilla extract contains at least 35% ethyl alcohol), laughably low price.