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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 ...

There are few summer foods I look forward to more than fresh figs. Their brief season makes them feel like indulgence and ...

Unlike Hanukkah’s potato latkes and sufganiyot or Purim’s hamantaschen, there aren’t a lot of specific foods that come along with celebrating Sukkot. Instead, Sukkot is the Jewish calendar’s poster ...

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 ...

For the butterscotch sauce, place all the ingredients in a pan and stir over medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Increase the heat to medium-high and simmer rapidly for 5-8 minutes or until ...

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 ...