A MANGO Fest for the Best

Mango fools: "These days, it’s only at the annual International Mango Festival, traditionally held in Delhi in July, that we get to sample the rarer varieties of mangoes, including the hard-to-get (in north India) Imampasand. The Batasha mangoes of Murshidabad, for instance, were famed for their concentrated, sun-ripened sweetness and are now a threatened variety. Totapuris, known for their parrot-beak shape, are still found, as are Chausas and the Gulab khas, but it’s hard to locate the Ananas in Goa, or the increasingly rare Jahangir."