Mango season is here and, with it, many delicious things to do.
Although it is not endemic to America, it is difficult not to associate this delicious fruit with our Panamanian tradition since every year, when the rains start, it is inevitable to find crowded trees or even interior streets covered with so many mangoes that they get lost without being used.
In my childhood memories, I don't remember ever buying or seeing my mother buy a mango; there were always the ones from my grandmother's yard, the ones from the neighbor's house, the ones from the stick that grows next to the river, or from the comadre who sent the parcel from the interior. In short, this fruit is so prevalent and abundant in Panama, that it seems that it originated here.
The mango came from far away, from India to be exact, making a technical stop in the Caribbean before being seen for the first time in Panama at the beginning of the 19th century.
The story (according to research done by historian Alfredo Castillero Calvo) is that it was an Italian resident of Panama City who first planted mangoes brought from Jamaica and by 1804 had 300 trees. Incredible that in barely 200 years this fruit spread so much that it seems to have originated right here.
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