Stuffed Zucchini Flowers

Zucchini bear male and female flowers. It is the fruitless male flower which commonly serves in the kitchen (although it is now chic in modish restaurants to serve mousseline-stuffed female flowers with the tiny, just-formed vegetable attached). In Provence, as in Italy, they are always in the early morning, summer markets; the flowers fade rapidly and should be used very fresh but can be kept for several hours, the stem tips immersed in a glass of water and refrigerated. They are usually d