The actual name of this recipe is Haricots Verts Salad with Figs and Walnut Vinaigrette, with haricots verts translating in French to green beans. This recipe is actually Basque in origin, from the cookbook The Basque Kitchen, by Gerald Hirigoyen, published in 1999. He’s also published two other cookbooks. Hirigoyen is a Basque| the chef mimi blog