Nandita Godbole is an award-winning cookbook author, journalist, and ceramic artist who has been telling stories where food, culture, and place meet – for more than 20 years. Her flavorful work has ...

India’s Alphonso mango is a fruit with an aura. It’s flavorful, aromatic, small-pitted and as smooth as silk (with none of the fibrousness of Mexican mangoes sold in the U.S.). The Vedic texts praise ...

Mangoes are often called the "king of fruits" for their rich taste, nutritional value, and cultural significance in many countries. While most people enjoy varieties like Alphonso or Langra, there are ...

My friend N turned out to be a mango smuggler. His family owned a mango orchard in Tamil Nadu. The Imam Pasand mangoes from that orchard were the stuff of family legend. But N rarely got a taste of ...

In what comes as bad news for mango lovers, the famed Alphonso mango that grows on the Konkan coastline in Maharashtra will see its production fall to just around 35 per cent due to climate change.