Grab a plate, a couple of Fig Newtons, and something to wash them down. You're gonna work up an appetite from all this stone-cold demystification. Read more: 7 Things You Probably Didn't Know ...

Fig Newtons, she claims, are just as removed and intangible as other more traditionally upscale foods. ... "A really highbrow plate of food -- you won't even know what it is," Bell argues.

I remember when I first tasted a fig outside a Newton. Until my grandmother plucked the plump fruit off a branch, I thought figs resided exclusively in those tidy little cakelike cookies. But here ...

Instead, I wanted to take it back, aaallll the way back, to my first memories of eating figs as a child — in a Fig Newton. ... A plate of figs is just the starting point.

Figs are probably one of the least thought-about fruits. Even though you’ve probably eaten a fair number of Fig Newtons in your life, those cookies could very well have been ...

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Soft, chewy, and sweet, Fig Newtons -- as most of us still call them despite being rebranded to "Newtons" more than a decade ago -- have been the quintessential packaged snack food for over a century.

Everyone knows Fig Newtons. They're one of the most popular cookies out there. But there's a surprising number of facts about them that people get wrong.

This past weekend, we invited friends to our house for a Sunday night porch supper. As appetizers, I prepared fresh figs, halved and topped with creamy blue cheese and sprigs of rosemary, then wrap… ...

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Build: Set one oat cake, bottom-side up, on a dessert plate or saucer. Spread with 1 to 2 tablespoons creme fraiche. Settle on two roasted fig halves, cut-side up.