Recipe: late-summer tomates farcies

Scoop and stuff, there's not much more to it so best spend the day on the hill at the park and dinner will just happen

Sit on the green hill in Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, watch people come and go, sip from a cold bottle of orange juice. Read missives from Annie Erneaux’s The Years and get an incredibly intimate history of this country through the lens of a woman who lived the years — through memory of news headlines, people’s clothes and conversations, music and photographs. Talk about plans for the year ahead, or about the olive oil ice cream that we ate last night. Feel the slowness and the stillness of August in Paris. Wander the paths of the park, watch people make eye contact over wooden board games set up on red tables, and wonder if there could be a better place to spend a summer afternoon in this city. Doubtful. Carry a peach, and embrace the comfort of it perfectly filling the cup of your hand. Eventually you’ll eat it from a park bench, and remember the bowl of tomatoes sitting on the kitchen bench from yesterday’s mid-week market venture.