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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...