This fig was served in a little paper cupcake shell in a gourmet grocery store on the Maine coastline. After a three-hour drive, with two more to go, we needed a little pick me up. While the husband hit the coffee, I was about to grab a fancy chocolate bar when I noticed these syrupy ripe figs nestled on a platter amidst all the candy. They were perfect, bright green, soft and glistened far more than any old chocolate bar.
I grabbed two, remembering my husband’s fondness for figs. We sat in the store’s garden and bit into the figs, a big bite, the type we’d endow to apples. It was in that instant that we both slipped into vacation mode. We spent a full five minutes enjoying the tiny, juicy fruit and resolved to (1) eat figs every day during fig season and (2) slow down, enjoy and savor our time away. Thanks, little, sweet fig!
Maggie, is chief tasting officer and founder of Eat Boutique. She started the site in 2007 as a way to highlight and celebrate the best pure, local and comforting handmade foods, and now sells unique and delicious handmade food in monthly tasting subscriptions and seasonal gift boxes. Fostering vibrant real world communities around food, Maggie now hosts Eat Boutique’s Local Markets, where she spotlights cookbook authors and undiscovered food makers. Maggie is a community evangelist with more than 15 years of Web community building and outreach experience, connecting millions via sites like Lycos, Tripod and TripAdvisor. She’s written for Time Out New York, the former I.D. magazine and Hip Paris, and created retail experiences for the largest floral and event design company in New England. Maggie regularly visits Paris and travels far distances to find the next great chef, farmer, food maker or host. You can follow her worldwide - and homemade - gastronomic adventures on Twitter at @mizmaggieb or @eatboutique.
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