Conversando hoje no Facebook sobre os modos de chupar, ops, cortar uma manga (havia um link…
www.conexaosabor.com.br/dicas-da-conexao/para-facilitar-a-vida/
… que mostrava um cortador moderno para tirar o caroço da fruta), Lady Lucy se lembrou de um episódio que envolveu Poirot, “o melhor cortador de manga do universo”, segundo ela. Achei um blog que fala a respeito, num post chamado “Tackling a mango: What would Dwight say?”:
A couple months ago, my friend Christina called my attention to an episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, entitled “The Theft of the Royal Ruby.” She thought I’d enjoy it because it shows Poirot demonstrating the correct way to cut a mango. With his usual fastidiousness, Poirot places the mango on a china plate, and then dissects it using knife and spoon. His technique is a variant of one of my own ways to approach a mango – cutting a slab off each side, cross-hatching the flesh with the point of a knife, and then bending the skin back so the cubes of fruit pop forward, ready for nibbling – though Poirot goes about it a lot more meticulously than I do. “Voilà,” he says, wiping his hands with a linen napkin as he finishes. Watch it for yourself. The mango part starts at 3:58:
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Poirot e a manga