India has the largest acreage under mango cultivation, but yields are low when compared to top exporters such as Mexico and Brazil. In the battles over taste and tag, this larger economic picture must ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mumbai: The world famous Alphonso mango, a rich agricultural legacy of Maharashtra, is mirrored by a similarly luscious fruit in neighbouring Gujarat..

NEW DELHI — It’s mango season in India, and the vendor pushcarts are overflowing with colorful mounds of juicy and wildly diverse varieties of the “king of fruit.” There’s the Alphonso, a small yellow ...

Walking down First Avenue yesterday, we screeched to a halt outside of Dual Specialty Store (91 First Avenue), where a box of Indian Alphonso mangoes sat on the curb, each fruit swaddled in its own ...

As the sun turns up the heat, it's not just the temperatures that rise—so does our craving for the ‘king of fruits’, the mighty mango! Summer in India is incomplete without indulging in this golden ...

Spongy tissue in Alphonso mango was traced to the seed, which due to its recalcitrant nature, switches over to germination mode during fruit ripening phase drawing nutrients from the mesocarp. However ...

When mango season heats up in India, the golden warmth of ripening Indian mangoes is felt 10,000 miles away here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The sweet mango -- Mangifera Indica, India's national ...