Enjoy this inspired salt from our neighbor and famed gastronome, Georgeanne Breannan. A combination of gray sea salt and purple Mission figs creates this aromatic dry rub.

Ingredients: Coarse Sel de Guerande and Dried Sultan de Marabout Figs, 90 grams

From the maker:

“There’s something about the ability of figs to go both sweet and savory – think fresh figs stuffed with jambon cru (French style-prosciutto) or a fresh fig and arugula salad with feta cheese and honey –that makes this fig and sea salt combination a handy pantry item. Use it as a rub or to season duck, wild game, or pork. Instead of regular salt use Sel de Figue in making vinaigrette. Sprinkle a smidgen of it over freshly baked brownies or chocolate ice cream. Stuff a pork loin with figs and season the roast with Sel de Figue. The uses are many. The salt is from the ancient salt ponds of Guèrande in Brittany, France and the figs, the incredibly sweet Sultan de Marabout, are from my own mother tree.”