The King is here

Genuflect all you smaller beings, the King is here... The

Mango season has started, heralded by the arrival of the Alphonso...

The peel is tinged with a touch of green, even though it's yellow all over. Once you peel it, the aroma takes you close to sexual bliss... and the taste, well a spoon short of complete sweetness, is perhaps the best way to describe the season's first harvest.

Priced at close to a 1000 bucks per dozen, this is no budget fruit. For us, growing up in the eastern part of the country, mango season came in July when the Langra aam, used to be harvested in Bihar. And costing us, not more than a 100 bucks a kilo...

Today, March ushers us this heavenly fruit.. But thanks to Katrina Kaif, the slice of mango is available all year around. No food product in the world has such an erotic undertone when it comes to advertising it's wares. I swear, if anyone has seen the Slice commercial where that one drop of mango juice lies tantalisingly on Kats' luscious lips and is then wiped clean with a delicate lick of the tongue....ufff... hail mary's need to be recited to cleanse the vivid imagery and beyond...

So, what's it going to be for you? Alphonsos or a Slice of.... it's heavenly on the senses, either ways...