http://cyprus-mail.com/2013/06/03/a-guide-to-summer-fruit/#prettyPhoto
FIGS (August – October). Those dates are a bit misleading, because they refer to the more watery black figs – whereas my faves are the green Smyrna figs which only appear in early August, part of the fruity decadence of those few weeks. Figs are extremely decadent. Their rich overpowering taste is decadent, the way the flesh falls apart in your fingers is decadent. They’re so decadent they don’t even travel – take that, globalisation! – and most Brits of my acquaintance only ever sampled dried figs in Britain, even in the modern Britain of supermarket plenty. Above all, though, I always associate figs with the decadence of August in Nicosia – a time when it’s so hot, and the city is so empty, that those of us who choose to stay can only wander around in a daze, gorging on rich luscious fruit in between bouts of doing nothing like some decadent Arabian Nights potentate. Figs are an expression of the dog-days of summer in Cyprus, when it all gets too much and you wallow in hot, sickly ripeness.
