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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Fig Newtons have made such a mark on U.S. cookie culture that there's even a Fig Newton Day that you can celebrate if you're so inclined. Every January 16, the country celebrates (or, most likely ...

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.

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