IFB Market in Bellevue brings in mangoes from Pakistan weekly during the summer season.
Growing up in Pakistan, Kauser Ahmed visited mango orchards each year, with 20 or more cousins, aunts, and uncles all hitting the road together to gorge themselves on fruit until sticky and sated. The founder and chef of local Pakistani food company Karachi Kitchen remembers keeping the mangoes cool by stashing them in a stream that ran through the farm. They would hang their feet in the water and sit for hours, eating the chilled, sweet fruit, until satisfied and messy, as plump and juicy as the mangoes themselves.
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