BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- Just when you figured out what to do with all of those zucchini from your garden, here come the figs! Around here, fig season begins in June, depending on the weather. Right ...

This is the time of the year when cooks are busy making jams and jellies from fresh fruits and berries. My favorites are strawberry fig preserves, blackberry jam and peach preserves. Several years ago ...

This is an opinion column. That first bite instantly took me back to Nannie’s strawberry fig preserves. The bulbous fruit connected me with the dog days of a hot Georgia summer long ago. For a moment, ...