With their delicate skin, floral sweetness and luscious texture, fresh figs are worlds away from their dried counterparts. Varieties of fresh figs include the purple-black Mission and the pale-green ...

Curious about figgy pudding? Discover the history, ingredients, and traditions behind this holiday dessert that’s more than ...

Fresh figs have always fascinated me. My first taste was when I was around 12 and I just loved their luscious sweetness and the tiny pops of crunch from the seeds. Last week, the iconic Spanish chef ...

Biting into a plump, ripe, sweet fresh fig? There’s almost nothing better…which is why we dream of fig season all year. Luckily, there’s no shortage of treats swirled with fig jam and studded with ...

Every year around this time, I wait for a text from some good friends who have an old, sprawling fig tree in their backyard: “Figs are ripening! Come pick anytime!” And we do. Figs are utterly unlike ...

Unlike Hanukkah’s potato latkes and sufganiyot or Purim’s hamantaschen, there aren’t a lot of specific foods that come along with celebrating Sukkot. Instead, Sukkot is the Jewish calendar’s poster ...

Three recipes for fig preserves and an old recipe for Tujaque's bread pudding with tart cranberry sauceLast year, J.C. helped his wife make fig preserves from the fruit of the tree in their Slidell ...

Figgy pudding has become one of the most recognizable dishes of the holiday season, even for people who have never tasted it. Immortalized in carols and often associated with Victorian England, the ...

On my parents’ property in Clarkston, there used to be an enormous, rambling fig tree. It sprouted up as a “volunteer” (the word my mother uses for things that aren’t planted, but somehow arrive ...

I didn’t grow up eating fresh figs. Figs were dried, wrinkly, overly sweet, like raisins but bigger. I always thought they looked like the shells of brown cockroaches. Part of the reason for my ...