The best way to enjoy a fig is as a dessert, sliced and drizzled with honey or chocolate or as an appetizer with minimal seasoning. Here are glorious ripe black Mission figs dipped in melted butter ...

Executive Chef, Lion Gardner of The Blue Moon in Rehoboth Beach, Del., is in the kitchen making mission fig and prosciutto with summer truffles. 1 pint black mission figs, halved1/4 lb. thinly sliced ...

With wrinkled purple skin and moist flesh the color of watermelon, black mission figs are bursting (sometimes literally) from market stands come late summer. Their history mirrors that of our ...

Fresh, ripe figs are luscious and delicate. Their flavors are varied and nuanced, depending on the type of fig. For instance, small Black Mission figs are dark, sweet and jammy, with tiny seeds that ...

The local birds and I have been enjoying the main crop of my garden’s fig tree (Ficus carica “Black Mission”). The tasty experience pleases the bird and leads me to a review of this popular tree. My ...