Cooking videos online: Recipes like Mom used to teach

TWENTY-FIVE years out of restaurant school, I should know how to cut up a mango. But it wasn't until I was noodling around online recently that I finally learned why I make a mess of every one. In a video on iFoods.tv, an Irish chef in a T-shirt used a small knife to slice off each end of a mango so that it would stand upright, then pared away the skin in downward strokes before carving the flesh off in chunks down to the seed. In a little more than two minutes he had a bowlful of perfectly diced sweet fruit.

By Regina Schrambling

May 14, 2008