Figs Anyone?

This is a tale posted by a friend and fellow blogger, Julie Cook.  I felt every bit of it in my own toothless mouth, having been there and done that .  What I didn’t know before was the origin of that little hand gesture….

“To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.” Elizabeth David (this past summer’s plucking–a fig resting on a bed of fresh herbs / Julie Cook / 2017) There’s eating figs, figs stuffed with blue […]

via ode to a fig — cookiecrumbstoliveby

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