Traditional gesso [edit].  Gesso , also known glue gesso or Italian gesso is a traditional mix of an animal glue binder (usually rabbit-skin glue), chalk, and white pigment, used to coat rigid surfaces such as wooden painting panels as an absorbent primer coat substrate for painting.esso (. [ËdÊÉsso] ;  chalk , from the Latin: gypsum, from Greek: Î³ÏÏÎ¿Ï) is a white paint mixture consisting of a binder mixed with chalk, gypsum, pigment, or any combination of these.
In Europe, too, chocolate was always served together with vanilla for more than a century after it arrived from America. Then people began to use sugar instead of vanilla to sweeten chocolate, and vanilla became a flavoring on its own. All the vanilla in the world was grown in Mexico until 1836, when scientists found ways of growing it in other lands. Today, most of the worldâs vanilla comes from Madagascar and other islands in the Indian Ocean.
Vanilla beans come from the vanilla plant, actually from the orchid variety Vanilla Planifolia. Of the many thousands of varieties of orchids this is the only one that bears edible fruit.It is a rather small plain yellow orchid that produces these long pods.ourbon vanilla beans are botanically known as Vanilla Planifolia and originally came from the Gulf Coast of Mexico. When grown in Mexico they're called Mexican vanilla beans. On the other hand, beans from the same plant stock are called Bourbon beans if they grow in Madagascar, India, Indonesia, and many other regions.