Given the same ingredients, two different cooks will always come up with two different recipes. Georgeanne Brennan's cover story on entertaining, which ran in last week's Food section, featured a ...

From “Where Flavor Was Born” by Andreas Vierstad, serves 4. Ingredients 8 to 12 ripe figs 2 teaspoons coarsely crushed cubeb (or Java) peppercorns or 2 teaspoons crushed black peppercorns mixed with ...

The fig tree in my backyard is close to producing its first real crop since I planted it four years ago. I’ve been watching its progress anxiously. Every morning before I go to work, I walk by and ...

When neighbors give me fresh figs from their heavy-laden trees, most go straight into my mouth, barely making it into my kitchen for playing with. But this recipe — a bright, nutty, creamy salad that ...

To try fig and almond cake, click here for the recipe. To view a slide show featuring photos of Greece's ripe figs, click here. Despite the fact that we have old, semi-wild fig trees in our garden, it ...

I can think of no fruit, wild or store bought, that has been preserved in Louisiana more often than figs. My grandmother was an expert at preserving figs, and I can never think of a day that a jar of ...

This summer's fig crop, if one can find sellers, is one of the best in recent years. Last year, too much rain damaged the figs. This year is just right. The figs are firm and sweet. The rain came to ...