Excerpt from The J. C. Forkner Fig-Gardens Recipes: How to Serve Figs in the Home The dried fig of commerce is one of the first and most favored of the fruits spoken of in the history of civilization, the fruit first produced around Jerusalem and Damascus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.