New and Old #11

Friday roundup and commentary

When Life Hands You Lemons…You Eventually Learn to Love Lemons, LAmag, Peter Flax, June 4, 2021

This short but sweet essay, whose author began to use a backyard lemon tree for the first time while stuck at home during the pandemic, reminded me of the east coast’s old backyard fruit tree: figs. Some of my old Italian-American relatives in New York had fig…