Superior Grade Saffron by Antonio Sotos

Saffron Threads are the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus flower (Crocus sativus). Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world because each blossom produces only three stigmas, which are laboriously hand harvested during the three weeks a year that the flower blooms. It can take 75,000 saffron blossoms to produce a single pound of saffron spice.