The Juice of Mango Clichés

To speak about Indian mangoes may be cliché, but because Indians never seem to tire of the subject, there’s always some juice. London-based writer, Nikesh Shukla, will humorously tell us how to devour one correctly – a skill most South Asians seem to inherently possess – while halfway justifying why our obsession for the fruit can and should live on. A conversation with food historian Vikram Doctor follows as he talks about the colonial legacy that underpins this obsession, and the parochialism that most Indians adopt as they cultivate their specific mango fetishes. I conclude in a kitchen with a Delhi-based pastry chef, Ruchi Vaish, who turns herself in as a Mango Obsessive. For her, mango season is the very best. Bad Table Manners is part of Whetstone Radio Collective. Learn more about Bad Table Manners here . Find show notes here .

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The Juice of Mango Clichés is an episode from Bad Table Manners by Whetstone Radio Collective.

This episode is 35:56 long.

This episode was published on Jan 5, 2022.

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