Artichoke Bottoms Stuffed with a Macédoine of Vegetables

A macédoine is a mixture of different fruits or vegetables chopped into very tiny dice and usually used as a garnish in French and Italian cuisine. The word derives from Macedonia, the country formed by Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE from the multitude of tiny states in what was southern Yugoslavia until the early 1990s. But the word did not come to be used in a culinary sense until the late eighteenth century, at the earliest, in France. In this preparation, a mixture