Vegetables in Garde Manger Work

Virtually every type of vegetable is used in modern North American garde manger work. In addition to standard European and North American varieties, vegetables from Asia and Latin America also have entered today’s garde manger repertoire. Identification of these standard and specialty vegetables is covered in most introductory cooking texts, which can be supplemented with an up-to-date produce buyers’ guide.

Many of the vegetable fabrication and cooking techniques you have already learned also apply to vegetables for garde manger. Later in this chapter, you will learn specialized garde manger methods and techniques for standard and specialty vegetables. First, however, it is useful to look at the ways in which cold vegetable dishes are classified.