Specifically, where do you get fresh {Devgadh,Ratnagiri} Alphonsos, in the US?
If not, what’s the next best thing?
Depends on where you are.
I can get mine at the supermarket. Various health food stores and ethnic markets may have better selections.
Let me get this straight.
You can buy fresh Alphonsos in the US? An Indian friend in NYC led me to believe that due to some “bacterial concerns”, fresh produce was banned in the US.
Gyan, I’m assuming this Indian is from the Subcontinent because most Aboriginal Americans have been inside an American supermarket.
Yes, we can buy fresh produce from the same place we buy canned dog food and bait*. Sometimes it’s from local growers, but more often it was shipped as cargo from overseas (bananas, for some reason, don’t do well in a climate where temperatures drop below -20F).
*Yes, some American stores sell live worms in small styrofoam cups. Some sell live crickets, if you’re after a different class of fish. And yes, anywhere you can buy booze, bullets, and bait is a supermarket.
I’ve seen three or four different kinds of fresh mangoes here in California, but I don’t think any of them are Indian varieties. Fresh mangoes from India do seemed to be banned–due to some type of weevil infestation, not bacteria.
As for fresh produce, you can get it in any supermarket. Some have more variety than others, and any big city will have markets that specialize in whatever ethnic favorites they can legally import or find a domestic source for.
I generally have to dig my own bait, though.
But what about the booze and bullets?
I just do the fishin’
I leave the huntin’ and the drinkin’ to the menfolks.