Antoinette Cerrito of Greensboro, N.C., was looking for a recipe for making fig preserves. Janet Morrissey of Baltimore shared an easy recipe from her grandmother’s recipe box. She says that it is a ...

I am certainly not the first person to derive inspiration from a fig tree. The ancients wrote poetry and sang songs about figs; Buddha attained enlightenment while sitting under a fig tree; and fig ...

Fig jams and preserves are easy to make and a great way to use up the summer harvest. (Photo by Ann Maloney, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) I was inspired by Dennis Bickham of Zachary, who shared his ...

Think back for a moment to earlier this year when we all agreed that we would try to accentuate local and seasonal products in this space. That was an easy pledge to make back in January, when ...

The good thing about this time of year: It’s fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs — make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...

The good thing about this time of year: It's fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs - make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...

This fancy-looking tart, spread with fig preserves, is easy to make and a good recipe to keep in mind when the supply of fresh fruit is limited. It starts with a simple, press-in-pan dough made with ...

As an expatriate Southerner, I’m always happy to meet someone who also was raised in the South, the more rural the better. Conversation quickly shifts to food. Did you have purple hull peas? How did ...

For my grandmother, it was an all-out war. Come late spring, she would amass her weapons that would drive the birds away from her massive fig trees. She released the hound (a Labrador named Goldie), ...

The good thing about this time of year: It’s fig season. The bad thing about this time of year for me: I only ever do one thing with figs — make preserves. Occasionally, I use those preserves to make ...