Figs are in season and ready to be sliced onto charcuterie boards, mixed into jams, and tossed into fresh salads. But if ...

Their tiny, twisting stems providing dainty handles, the Calimyrna figs had been dipped in deep, dark chocolate up to their shoulders. I took one home, cut a deep slice with a sharp knife and found ...

Most figs that we buy are from the self-fertilizing Common group (Brown Turkey, Mission, Kadota). San Pedro (Desert King, King, Dauphine) and Smyrna (Calimyrna, Marabout) require the wasp to ...

There are some fig varieties, like the Calimyrna fig that do require a wasp ... The most likely culprit was the weather. Figs are subtropical trees, and the New York City area is about the ...