Favorite Recipe

“The famous French chef Alain Ducasse says 85 percent of cooking is shopping; it may even be more than that, it might be 90 percent. But that’s not, of course, going to the supermarket – it’s going to the farmers’ market, or out into your backyard, finding what’s ripe and beautiful and alive and in season. This is my favorite recipe: “Get some perfectly ripe figs in August, put them on a plate, and eat them.”

– From the book Coming to My Senses by Alice Waters