Three recipes for fig preserves and an old recipe for Tujaque's bread pudding with tart cranberry sauceLast year, J.C. helped his wife make fig preserves from the fruit of the tree in their Slidell ...

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 ...

Claudia Fowler penned a recent "Human Condition" column for the paper where she mentioned how fig preserves tend to be one of those love 'em or hate 'em kinds of food. She and her husband, Jim, love ...

Figs — in all shapes, colors and sizes — are ripening all over the South. And what memories these oh-so-delicious fruits bring to mind. As a kid, I would crawl under the canopy of my grandmother’s ...

Marian Denton misses the fig trees. She grew up in the country in what is now southeast Houston. Her father, Raymond Joachim, planted five kinds of fig trees in their black-gumbo back yard. He added ...

Figs are available now at area Heinen’s stores, but they won’t be around for long. The plush teardrop-shaped fruits, which ripen in late summer and early fall, are perfect in September. Because they ...

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 ...