|
|
Subscribe to
our
FREE food & wine newsletter
|
|
|
|
get figgy
Legend
has it that eating a fresh fig while naked in front
of a woman is one of the world's most erotic acts. (Can't
vouch, since I'm not in the habit of eating naked in
front of other women). Because when its split down the
center and cradled by a palm, the fig's pink flesh is
said to resemble a woman's sweet unmentionables.
The luscious fruit's womanly wiles were immortalized
in the words of one of literature's dirtiest birds,
author D. H. Lawrence, who dedicated a poem entitled
“Figs” to its sensuality.
|
Some
historians suspect that the fig's original home was
the Garden of Eden, and that the fig was the original
temptress, the true forbidden fruit.
But even those who still cling to the myth of the
apple find the fig's charms to be undeniable. This
soft, plump fruit is a fine source of iron and potassium-minerals
much needed in the horizontal pas de deux.
|
|
