Young Vegetables: Cooking à la Grecque

While English travellers in the 18th century cultivated their passion for Greek ruins and their romantic sensibilities, Frenchmen extended the repertoire of culinary practice by direct observation in the course of travel. This is why cooking à la grecque is a perfectly familiar part of classic French cooking. But I must say that it is, as you would expect, a refined version of what the Greeks actually do and applies only to very young vegetables, for instance: cauliflower florets, ce