The next best thing to having a productive fig tree in your own garden is to have Italian friends who have massively productive fig trees in their yards. This week my Italian friend Umberto Garbuio ...

A column I published earlier this year in January, about my encounter last fall with cherished fig trees grown on the Canadian border of Niagara Falls, attracted the keen eye of reader Gina Geiss of ...

Imagine pulling plump ripe fruit from a fig tree in the middle of August and eating this seductively sweet treat right on the spot with crusty French bread. This is the main reason for planting a fig ...

Thirty-three years after she began farming on a Brooksville plot formerly owned by back-to-the-landers Helen and Scott Nearing, Barbara Damrosch remains utterly beguiled by what she manages to coax ...

Preheat the oven to 180 Celsius/350 Fahrenheit/gas mark 4. Grease and line a 20cm cake tin with a removable base with parchment paper. Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until pale. Add the ...

In the late 1800s, a Mediterranean tree began to take root in the United States when Italian immigrants began arriving in the country. Their suitcases were filled with things that reminded them of ...

Preheat oven to 250˚.Place the carrots, celery, onion, bay leaf and water in a roasting pan. Place the pork belly on top of the vegetables. Cover with aluminum foil. Bake five hours, or until pork can ...