1.   Black sunken eyes like dried figs.

2.   Dried figs are great snacks, but no match for the subtle, honey-sweet succulence of a perfectly ripe fig.

3.   Drink plenty of milk, or eat dairy products, sardines with bones, dried figs, tofu or leafy greens.

4.   For the sauce, Botsacos reduces Commandaria with a bit of sugar and some cinnamon sticks, and then mixes in dried figs.

5.   In ancient Greece, dried figs were a major part of the daily diet of rich and poor.

6.   Turbot, coated with a turbot mousse, is splendid with a sauce of dried figs and olive oil.

7.   Whole dried figs come in.

8.   You can shred a bunch of basil to flickers of green, slice dried figs into bits and reduce pecans to fine granules.