title: The Figs Table
author:  Todd English 
description: Authors English and Sampson are aiming, with <i>The Figs Table</i>, at the 15 best pizza recipes out of Todd English's award-winning restaurant, Figs. But to get there--poor reader--you will have to pass through one impossibly flavorful ordeal after another, starting right up front with such basics as roasted garlic, balsamic onions, and fig jam.
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  Table of Contents
  
  
    
  
  
  [Title Page](index_split_001.html#filepos7043)
  
  
  [Copyright Page](index_split_002.html#filepos7172)
  
  
  [Dedication](index_split_003.html#filepos9110)
  
  
  [Preface to the Second Edition](index_split_004.html#filepos9200)
  
  
  [Introduction](index_split_005.html#filepos26962)
  
  
  [ A Note on Layout](index_split_013.html#filepos77766)
  
  
  [SCENE ONE: Legend](index_split_015.html#filepos80565)
  
  
  [SCENE TWO: Declaring Ambition](index_split_016.html#filepos83395)
  
  
  [SCENE THREE: Admonishing the Daughter](index_split_017.html#filepos89328)
  
  
  [SCENE FOUR: Pedant’s Lament](index_split_018.html#filepos103706)
  
  
  [SCENE FIVE: Engaging the Tutor - Enter DU BAO with attendants and
  underlings](index_split_019.html#filepos111570)
  
  
  [SCENE SIX: Despairing Hopes](index_split_020.html#filepos125485)
  
  
  [SCENE SEVEN: The Schoolroom](index_split_021.html#filepos139327)
  
  
  [SCENE EIGHT: Speed the Plough - Enter PREFECT DU with PAGE BOY, underlings,
  and attendants](index_split_022.html#filepo