Gulzar Ahmad Kuchay has been farming, harvesting, and selling Kashmiri saffron — known to be the best variety of the spice — for over 30 years. Every autumn, his family comes together for the annual ...

Please, -don't say paella," pleads Juan San Mames, a San Francisco saffron importer who wants to expand American notions about the spice. "You can put saffron in anything and everything." At about $35 ...

Surveying the sprawling undulating highlands of saffron fields, Tariq Rashid, a schoolteacher from Gund Bal village, Pampore, in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district is beaming. Rashid’s wife and two ...

On a cold February morning in this south Kashmir town, saffron farmer Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, 38, was setting out on a 30-km drive to the capital city of Srinagar. Bhat and two other farmers were meeting ...

On July 25, Kashmir saffron joined the likes of Darjeeling tea, the Alleppey green cardamom, black rice from Manipur and the Guntur chilli in getting the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. According to ...