The Surprising Origin Story of Arcodoro’s Figs

Aug 22, 2017 775

BY: Alice Levitt

PASATINA FIGS—a breed native to Sardinia—aren’t a common ingredient in the U.S. Yet if you look for the fruit in Houston, you’ll have little trouble finding it.

Twenty years ago, Efisio Farris, owner of beloved Italian restaurant Arcodoro in the Galleria area, brought a single stick from one of his father’s trees back to Houston from Sardinia. He planted it in his yard, and in the space of a couple years, had a sizable tree—“The climate here is just like in Sardinia,” says his wife Lori, with whom he co-owns Arcodoro.

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