Grilled Vegetable Salad

Grilled eggplants, tomatoes, and peppers turn up wherever grill masters light charcoal. They taste particularly spectacular in Russia and the Caucasus Mountains, where each vegetable is grilled on a grateless mangal grill just to the degree that suits it best. This flame-seared, smoke-scented salad is a great dish for people who have a tendency to burn food on the grill. You grill the vegetables until they are charred on all sides and tender inside. If the skins blacken too much, sim