There's More to Mangoes

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of varieties of mango. Some creamy and sweet, some a bit hot, some like pineapple and some that are just a bit bland. Unfortunately it's the latter that are usually peeled, chopped and potted for us on supermarket shelves. In this programme, Sheila Dillon and Romy Gill meet Monica Bhandari to talk about the breadth of mangoes that we could all be delighting in and they hear from Chef Allen, a Florida-based chef known for using mangoes in his fusion cooking, BBC Gloucestershire radio presenter Primrose Granville-McIntosh describes her lifelong infatuation with mangoes and BBC Asian Network presenter Noreen Khan explains the mango ban that shook Britain's mango-loving communities.

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0:50.0	Mango has permeated my life all my life. It's just been made mangoes and it doesn't matter who you are or what you mean to me. I will take your mango if you put it down.
1:01.0	The thing about eating a mango is it is an experience like no other fruit.
1:07.0	You put a mango in somebody's hand, you see a smile come to their face.
1:11.6	As soon as they hit the local Asian shops, the supermarkets, your
1:15.2	mom or your dad, your parents will go and buy a box with eight or six mangoes in them, so it's always
1:19.6	like a bit of a treat. I don't think I've ever met anybody that said they just don't like
1:23.6	mangoes. There are people who have allergies to mangoes but they still eat them anyway.
1:29.7	Who could not yearn for a taste of mango after that buildup?
1:34.0	But if you live outside a city, chances are those pleasures, at least until recently, have been just a dream.
1:41.0	But now we're importing more and more, many of them via
1:44.6	fruity fresh, the UK's largest mango importer, which is where I was with
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