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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biting into a plump, ripe, sweet fresh fig? There’s almost nothing better…which is why we dream of fig season all year. Luckily, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s the season for peppermint-, pumpkin- and gingerbread-centric sweets, but not for Good Girl Dinette’s Diep Tran, who marches to the beat of a different drummer boy. At her Highland Park restaurant ...

Fig and Pecan Bread Pudding with Carmelized Sugar/Bourbon Sauce Makes 12 servings 2 cups heavy cream 6 whole eggs 1 cup light brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon orange zest 4 cups cubed ...