Back To Roots in association with Chef Vaibhav Bhargava presents and celebrates the National Fruit Mango with a contest.

My Favourite Mango Dish: Paramparik and Traditional.

Only one dish to be prepared from home and plated at the venue.

It can be any one dish but only traditional and Indian.

The Story of Mango

History yields some very interesting facts about this celebrated fruit. The mango has been known to Indians since very early times. Scientific fossil evidence indicates that the mango made its first appearance even earlier 25 to 30 million years ago in Northeast India, Myanmar and Bangladesh, from where it travelled down to southern India.

The earliest name given to the mango was Amra-Phal. It is also referred to in early Vedic literature as Rasala and Sahakara, and is written about in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad and the Puranas, which condemn the felling of mango trees. On reaching South India, the name translated to Aam-Kaay in Tamil, which gradually became Maamkaay due to differences in pronunciation. The Malayali people further changed this to Maanga. The Portuguese were fascinated by the fruit on their arrival in Kerala and introduced it to the world as Mango.

Legend has it that the Buddha was presented with a mango grove so he could rest under the shady trees