Figs may offer flavors of raspberry, maple syrup, caramel, honey and almond, with certain varieties tending more toward bright and zesty fruitiness and others more toward the nutty, coffee-and-caramel end of the spectrum.
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What differentiates each fig from the next may be stark and obvious factors, like skin color (ranging from almost white to black), flesh color (honey-hued to plum-purple) and size (whether like marbles or like pears). Of the hundreds and hundreds of cultivated varieties, several have been selected as the mainstays of the world’s regional industries - with the Kadota, the Black Mission, the Adriatic and the Calimyrna figs among the favorites of American chefs, and the figs commonly seen in markets during the fig season, which runs June through December in the Northern Hemisphere. Today, the fig orchards of Fresno, Madera and Kern counties, just west of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, encompass about 10,000 acres - nothing compared to half million acres of California wine grapes, but one of the largest centralized fig industries in the world, along with those of Turkey, Italy, Spain and Greece.
In the 1500s, figs came to America, and by the 1700s Spanish missionaries were planting them in their settlements along the West Coast of Mexico and California, where a commercial industry took root in the Central Valley in the late 1800s. Over time, new varieties were born and cultivated in Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Turkey, Greece, France and many more areas. It is hardy surprising, then, that such a willing provider of nutritious and delicious calories was quickly introduced to regions around the Mediterranean - wherever ships and camels could go. These agricultural innovators likely discovered early just how easy it is to propagate a new fig tree by planting a fig branch in the ground, a new tree identical to the parent will grow and produce fruit within two or three years. The fig is said to be among the very first plants domesticated by the very first farmers in the hot and arid Middle East.
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