This week, the market was overflowing with figs. It was an abundance I can’t recall seeing before—big crates packed with fat figs at multiple stalls, ripe and bursting, water balloon skins no longer able to hold in the jammy centers. My favorite fig purveyor let me assemble my own boxes, a pretty simple offer that put […]
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A couple of weeks ago, Ben and I spent a day adventuring around San Francisco. This city is so full of things to do and see and experience; we have been here for two years and still find plenty of sights and eats and neighborhoods we’ve yet to explore. We ended at Twin Peaks, where neither of […]
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Figs had my attention well before I moved to California, and unlike many things that are not so stunning in real life as in our imaginations, they did not disappoint. This fruit blows me away—how is it that these soft, sweet orbs with impossibly pink interiors bursting with seeds appear on trees planted in the […]
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