Bad Table Manners
Bad Table Manners
Whetstone Radio Collective
The Juice of Mango Clichés
35 minutes Posted Jan 5, 2022 at 10:06 pm.
: Meet Nikesh Shukla
: How to eat a mango properly
: Mango in literature
: Meet Ruchi Vaish
: Ways to cook and bake with mango
: Meet Vikram Doctor
: Alphonso mango, the “king of kings”
: Is mango parochialism political?
: The British love for mango pickles
: Income hanging from a tree
: A mango that’s “good for diabetics”
: Making mango cheesecake with Ruchi
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Show notes
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.
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Guests: Nikesh Shukla (@nikeshshuklawriter), Vikram Doctor (@vikram.doctor), Ruchi Vaish (@intheknowkitchen)