Figs — in all shapes, colors and sizes — are ripening all over the South. And what memories these oh-so-delicious fruits bring to mind. As a kid, I would crawl under the canopy of my grandmother’s ...

Fresh figs are ones of the treasures to seek out at late summer markets. Here are the ones to look for, and how to cook with them. Andee Gosnell is a San Francisco born, Birmingham-based food ...

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 ...

The official California state fruit is avocado (Persea Americana) but I’ve started a recall effort (which I hear is popular nowadays) to replace it with the fig. Figs are inexorably tied to the ...

You often see recipes that combine ricotta and fresh figs. This is just an offshoot of that -- a dish of whole-milk ricotta with a large spoonful of fig jam in the center, so you get the smooth, cool, ...

Claudia Fowler penned a recent "Human Condition" column for the paper where she mentioned how fig preserves tend to be one of those love 'em or hate 'em kinds of food. She and her husband, Jim, love ...

If you are out hunting for fresh figs, you may smell them before you ever see them. Their aroma is often hard for folks to describe. The riper the fruit, the earthier their intense sweet perfume. I ...