I do give a fig
There is a stall in our local market that is always swarming with 3 times as many people as any of the other stalls. It's certainly not the cheapest stall, and the fruit and vegetables are not the prettiest, but it's the only stall that has locally sourced produce, with 100% of it from France.
Whilst eating locally is a trendy concept nowadays, it's hard for Parisians (or suburbanites like us) to access truly locally grown food. Where my in-laws live in the country, they have many more options - but for the Ile-de-France region, wiith so many people in such a small space, local produce can be really expensive, and it's cheaper for many people to simply go to the big supermarket chains and buy fruit and vegetables from other European countries, Africa or even as far as Asia or the Americas.
With our discovery of this single market stall - they only sell items that are in season and are grown from France - we've stopped buying fresh produce from anywhere else. Their stuff is so damn good that I don't mind paying more, and I feel like we can finally join the "trend" of moving towards a more sustainable planet... Hopefully more stall owners will follow the trend and fresh, locally grown produce will become more accessible to more people.
This morning, they had figs at the market... they were the best figs I've eaten in a really really really long time...
I've eaten 6 so far.
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I used to have a neighbor, an old man, who had a fig tree in his yard. Actually two fig trees. One produced the regular dark fig, and the other produced what were called "white figs" which were a lot lighter in color, almost white, but not quite. More an extremely light green.
I lived in an area with as close to a Mediterannean climate as can exist in the state, so he had figs, and used to give them to my mom all the time. I was the only one of the kids who liked them so I got them all to my greedy self.