Hints and tips:
...Keema pau, a dish of minced lamb topped with red onions and lime juice eaten in a fluffy white bun, melts in the mouth....
...behind Italian restaurant Bocca di Lupo across the street, this artisan gelateria and espresso bar in Soho – deemed “divine” by Nigella Lawson – opened in 2010 and majors on seasonal ingredients such as alphonso...
...Guests can enjoy a limited-edition menu of salmon poke bowl, Korean BBQ chicken with kimchi slaw and a passionfruit parfait with alphonso mango and black sesame – all rounded off with the Malfy Gin Rosa...
...Also on offer are luscious slices of Alphonso mango, those richly fragrant fruits that arrive from Gujarat at this time of year. Now, time for some music....
...The only fruit I can think of that exceeds a pear in butteriness is the Alphonso mango. So I was surprised to find that the buttery pear is a relatively recent historical invention....
...I followed suit, envious of discussions about how long prune and Earl Grey mix has to steep before you churn, or whether round or flat white peaches work best for Travers’ mouth-watering tomato-and-white-peach...
...The best gift I’ve received recently was a box of Alphonso mangoes from the film producer and designer Ambika Hinduja Macker, after I installed a sculpture for her in India....
...Its claims to fame are of a certain vintage; famous fans including King Alphonso XII of Spain, who declared it his favourite wine back in the 19th century....
...In too many cases, white colonialists have simply been replaced by black elites. (Liberia, founded by freed American slaves, is a slightly different case.)...
...On this polarised planet, it might be beneficial to espouse the shades of grey of the “mediumalist” rather than the popularised black-and-white thinking that your first response appears to endorse....
...” … Servants enter with a plate of pieces of Alphonso mango. I ask my companion whether he can eat it, given his diabetes. “I’ll have a little,” he says....
...He called “shameful” a finding that young black men receive longer sentences than whites for similar crimes....
...Alongside the basics are luxuries such as white asparagus and Jersey Royals and exotics including fresh galangal and rambutans....
...An alphonso, freshly arrived from India this morning, from a friend who sends them every year. “To get your hands on these is special,” he says, and he is not wrong....
...The White House immediately rejected the proposal. “We have a housing tsar, his name is Alphonso Jackson. He’s the secretary of housing and urban development.” a spokesperson said....
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