Veal Stew with Garlic, Parsley and Vinegar

THE MEAT of this stew is flavored with a combination of garlic and parsley known as sofrito in Catalan and soffrito in Italian. But because this dish has neither the onions nor the tomatoes of the Catalan sofrito, it is more likely Italian in origin. (The old Venetian dialect, in fact, spells the word with one f rather than two.) Corfu and the other islands of the Ionian Sea were part of the Venetian Empire for more than four centuries, and the Venetian language,