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Remember, texture doesn’t always mean crunch—it can also mean chewiness, density, or something toothsome, like dates, figs, rice noodles, or pitted olives.

At the window, ready to be served: insalata estiva, a tangle of arugula with pistachios, figs and blue cheese, dressed in lemon and pecorino.

High in the Andean mountains of Ecuador, Tony, a large, male spectacled bear, shelters from the midday heat beneath the shade of a century-old fig tree draped in Spanish moss.

Three dead trees that my not-always-reliable phone app identified as an Indian almond, bagpod and common fig, served as his perches.

Seagle’s last stop was the towering Moreton Bay fig that had shaded the property for decades.