Collection of premium clips featuring the careful cultivation of a spice as rare as it is expensive: saffron, also called red gold or king of spices. Cultivated for thousands of years, saffron is used as a spice, coloring and medicine. In this collection of footage we present to you this flowering plant from the iris family with bright purple petals, also known as "saffron crocus" or "autumn crocus". Our high-quality clips show how the flowers are hand-picked in the fields and then dried to be ready for use in the most refined and flavorful dishes such as the Spanish Paella, the Milanese Risotto of Italy or the famous bouillabaisse of France .
The video shots of manual extraction of the pistil show us the delicacy and hard work necessary to harvest this aromatic ingredient which will then be sold to the greatest chefs but also to pharmaceutical laboratories. If Iran is today the world's leading producer of saffron, India, Greece, Afghanistan, Morocco, Syria and Spain also produce saffron which gives this magnificent golden color to many culinary recipes around the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Asia.
This footage fits perfectly into the editing of documentary or cooking films. If you are a producer, director or editor, don't miss this collection because the secrets of the world's most expensive spice are jealously guarded by those who grow it.
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