I have never eaten a fresh fig before, and I was truly shocked when I cut a black fig open and found that it was a reddish pink on the inside. It was gorgeous! I eat dried black figs all the time, and for whatever reason, I got it in my head that fresh black figs were tan on the inside.
I took a close up picture of the fresh and dried version of the figs together on white because I wanted to highlight the magnificence of the figs. I like shooting food on white and up close because it helps remind us what is amazing about the natural design of food. No one is a better designer than Mother Nature, and much of a food's natural beauty and design is lost when the food is processed and showered with artificial additives and preservatives. This is why I have come to enjoy eating foods "naked & natural" as much as possible.
Eating the fresh black fig is a totally different experience than eating the dried version, at least to me. The fresh fig is very juicy but is not very sweet and doesn't have much flavor, in fact it almost tastes like nothing more than a slightly sweetened water. I assume then that in the drying process when the fig shrinks in size all the sugar gets condensed because dried figs are really sweet. My favorite is to eat figs with walnuts.
With the fresh figs, I wanted to scoop out the flesh, and add some agave nectar and sea salt to make a natural body scrub. In fact, that sounds really relaxing. Bath tub here I come.
