Superfood of the season: Avocado

Suddenly, everyone is into avocados. But remember, superfoods lose their superpowers all too soon!

Do you know what an “English vegetable” is? No? Well, it took me a while to figure it out as well! An “English vegetable” is not necessarily one that English people like but one that our local sabziwallahs regard as strange and alien to Indian cooking. So asparagus is an “English vegetable”. So is baby corn. And mushrooms. And so on.

Nutritionists have encouraged people in the West to give up on eggs for breakfast and eat avocados on toast(Getty Images)

Guests at upmarket hotels and restaurants demand avocados on everything from chaat to tiramisu and pudding (Shutterstock)

In California, they started putting avocado in sushi rolls in the 1970s to mimic the fattiness of the more expensive tuna belly (Shutterstock)

Himanshu Taneja of Mumbai’s St. Regis creates new avocado dishes, especially for banquets and buffets

Up to 30 per cent of each avocado is oil or just fat content (Getty Images)

Guacamole, the ancient Aztec dish based on mashed avocados, tomatoes, onions, coriander and chillis has travelled the world as a dip and bar snack (Getty Images)

Clever marketers tagged the fat content of the avocado into the olive oil category (Dinodia)