Harvesting cinnamon (cassia)

A quick look at where cassia cinnamon comes from and how it's harvested. Now go make some cinnamon syrup and mix up a Jet Pilot.

One of the most beloved spices in the world, Cinnamon is actually the dried and curled up inner bark of one of several varietals of trees in the genus Cinnamomum. Cassia Cinnamon is one of those varietals and the majority of it grows in the lush Kerenci Valley on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.