Buy a jar of Lakesha Brown-Renfro’s Mango Mango preserves, and it won’t sit on the shelf. The Hampton entrepreneur has 101 suggestions for using her sweet concoction. She stirs it into oatmeal, shakes ...

Like Jack’s beanstalk, the mango preserves that Lakesha Brown Renfro and her partners first created have sprouted into a thriving business. A year of brisk sales in 2014 for their Mango Mango ...

After a national television appearance and the sky-high demand that followed, the makers of “Mango Mango” preserves have moved into a storefront property in downtown Hampton. City officials and Mango ...

Mango and lime brighten and complement the strawberries. Because I prefer my preserves with less sugar than traditional recipes, I always use a no-sugar-needed pectin, like the Sure-Jell pectin in the ...

In 1619, a ship landed at what is now Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, bringing the first enslaved Africans to colonial America. Four hundred years later and just down the road from that historic ...