Falling for figs

Capital (Annapolis) | October 7, 2009| | Copyright

"Figs are restorative. The best food that can be eaten by those who are brought low by long sickness and are on the way to recovery. They increase the strength of young people, preserve the elderly in better health and make them look younger with fewer wrinkles." Pliny of Rome (62-113)

Several years ago a dear friend gave us a fig tree as a gift. Actually, his gift was a single, slender, fragile shoot from his own fig tree. An ebullient, gracious and very generous native Italian, our friend would call my husband from across the fence to his backyard, where he has a large, succulent fig tree ...

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