I do love fresh figs, but the season is so short that any time some lucky person with a bearing fig bush invites me over I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Figs are abundant this season, but not all figs are created equally. Some areas of the Coast see and have seen quite a bit of rain while others have been bone dry. Naomi Coleman said she got too ...

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 ...

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 ...

After my husband and I started dating, I was introduced to his grandmother’s fig preserves. They are delicious to say the least. When we bought our house, I was excited to see that I had a mature fig ...

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 waning weeks of summer can be a time of squeezing in trips, yard work and kitchen projects. A few days ago, I realized, here it is the middle of August and not one single batch of homemade ice ...