You're planning a dinner and the recipe calls for fresh figs, but you can't find any. What do you do? Don't worry, you've got ...

A person should always rinse fresh figs. After that, they are edible as they are. A person can eat dried figs as they are or reconstituted by soaking them in warm water until they soften.

Dried figs are readily available all year round. Fresh figs have an extremely short shelf life. Thin-skinned and easily bruised, they need careful handling and should be wrapped in tissue for travel.

San Diego has the perfect set of environmental conditions for fig trees to thrive. Gardeners who want a fig tree in their backyard should plan on putting the tree into the ground in spring or early ...