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Vered Guttman
Vered Guttman

As part of my ongoing search for seasonal summer produce I was delighted to discover fresh and moist figs this afternoon at my local supermarket.  Coming from a country where figs are bountiful in the summer (yes, that would be Israel) and are almost always sweet and exploding with juice, I learned the hard way to be suspicious about American figs.