Saffron costs more than gold, but what’s really driving the price? 💸 We unpack tiny threads, grueling harvests, and a global ...

A glimpse at Kashmir’s saffron harvest. Paper replicas of saffron flowers, which are harvested in mid-autumn (past our press time), made for T by the artist Sourabh Gupta.Credit...Photograph by Esther ...

There is a spice sitting quietly in your kitchen cabinet that, by weight, has rivaled gold throughout much of human history.