What is the second most expensive spice after saffron?
Cardamom - Not unlike saffron cardamom is hard work to produce,
pods are picked, pods are stripped by hand (approx 12 seeds per
pod), it will take the contents of approx 10 pods to create 1
teaspoon of ground cardamom
Ground cardamom is the most expensive form - upto around £6 per
oz ($10)