Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond.
You can't have da mango: On NPR's Morning Edition, local writer Sandip Roy waxes eloquent about Indian mangoes -- a Bush-era nukes agreement with India freed them up for import. One variety is the Alphonso, known in India as the King of Mangoes. Roy presents a specimen to Orson owner Elizabeth Falkner. She gushes, which only makes Roy homesick for Calcutta. The taste of mango was a price of immigration. It was our symbol of loss, and all the
su-lin/FlickrGet 'em while you still can.Yesterday we gave props to Sandip Roy's meditation on the Alphonso mango, an extra-lush variety okayed for import from India in recent years. Thanks to the blog Burrito Justice, we found out that food delivery company Indian Bento blends up hyper-delicious fresh Alphonsos for its mango lassis -- but only for a few more weeks.
Indian Bento owner Pashmina Chaudhary set us straight on the fruit -- including the town the best Alphonsos come from . "They hav
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