The Rebellious Fig
Let me introduce myself...
They call me The Rebellious Fig. I am your host for your journey through a Renaissance-inspired dessert house devoted to the beautiful possibility of plants.
We create luxurious, plant-based and gluten-free confections from ingredients rooted in the earth — fragrant spices, dark cacao, roasted seeds, citrus, fruit, botanicals and other remarkable provisions gathered from nature.
We believe indulgence need not be compromised to be thoughtful; it can be abundant, intense and extraordinarily good.
Part food atelier, part cabinet of curiosities, we approach every creation as an exploration of taste, beauty and imagination—taking what the earth gives us and asking, quite simply, how far can we take it?
Welcome to our world.
The Rebellious Fig
I grew up in an Italian home in Texas where food was never simply food.
My mother loved to cook and bake, with an extraordinary instinct for flavor.
Her desserts became known throughout our community, and from her I learned early that, what we make for others should be made beautifully with intention—and that exceptional flavor is never accidental.
Years later a serious illness eventually changed the way I thought about food entirely.
I had always been active -building a corporate career, distance running, teaching martial arts - so finding myself hospitalized for more than a week was difficult to understand.
How could this happen?
I followed every golden rule of eating, so I thought…with no explanation why this happened, I was left with finding my own healing.
Eventually, I began an exploration of how to heal with foods, eventually finding plant based eating.
20 years later, my work has taken me from my own kitchen to plant based product development for a major grocery private label , a major coffee company, and twice to the semifinals of Shark Tank.
But The Rebellious Fig grew from something even simpler :
WE ALL DESERVE BETTER
We deserve better health from the highest quality earth based ingredients yielding superior flavor.
Made from nature, not engineered to imitate what already exists, not from a lab.
I have intentionally developed the kind of snacks and desserts I believed we all deserve: botanical, imaginative, deeply indulgent, and carefully hand crafted in small batches.
All the recipes are my own, derived from a lifetime of searching, because:
I believe CHOOSING DIFFERENTLY should NEVER feel like settling.
Carole Taylor
Founder, The Rebellious Fig
