Referring to Sorted cells

How do I refer in a formula to the location of a cell in a table so that after I sort the table I'm still referring to that cell's original location? I've tried making the cell absolute but it still gets sorted.

If this isn't what you want, I don't know what you are looking for.
Here the Top Pick looks at cell A1 in the Produce Table. Sorting Produce on Col A Ascending, you get:
And, sorting Col A Descending, you get:
The formula in Top Pick is: =INDIRECT("Produce :: A1")
Regards,
Jerry

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