Overview. Arrowroot powder is a natural powdered root starch that is white in color and very lightweight. It is derived from the tropical South American plant Maranta arundinacea. The plant was given the name âArrowrootâ because it was once used to treat those injured with wounds from poisoned arrows.
Cameron Crowe Explains The Pop Culture Netherworld of Vanilla Sky. There is a God, and, thankfully, he looks like Tom Cruise. Thatâs what Cruise plays in Cameron Croweâs Vanilla Sky: a flawed, hurt, and regretful God searching for something real in his own world. Of course, that also means he didnât play anyoneâs ideal romantic lead in this picture, and that partly speaks to why Vanilla Sky polarized audiences and
Vanilla is a member of the orchid family, a sprawling conglomeration of some 25,000 different species. Vanilla is a native of South and Central America and the Caribbean; and the first people to have cultivated it seem to have been the Totonacs of Mexicoâs east coast. The Aztecs acquired vanilla when they conquered the Totonacs in the 15th Century; the Spanish, in turn, got it when they conquered the Aztecs.