Macedonia (food)
Macedonia or macédoine is a salad composed of small pieces of fruit or vegetables. Fruit Macedonia is a fresh fruit salad and is a common dessert in Greece, Romania, Spain,[1] France, Italy and Argentina. Vegetable Macedonia or Macédoine de légumes nowadays is usually a cold salad or hors d'oeuvre of diced vegetables, in France often including red beans. Macédoine de légumes is also a hot vegetable dish consisting of the same vegetables served with butter.[2] Prepared macédoine, a mixture of diced vegetables and often peas, is often sold canned or frozen.[3] It is sometimes mixed with mayonnaise combined with aspic stock, making it similar to Russian salad.
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Type | Salad |
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Main ingredients | Fruits or vegetables |
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The word macedonia was popularised at the end of the 18th century to refer to mixed fruit salad, alluding to the diverse origin of the people of Alexander's Macedonian Empire.[4][5] It is sometimes said that it refers to the ethnic mixture in 19th century Ottoman Macedonia.[6] Macedoine can refer to any medley of unrelated things, not necessarily edible.[7]
References
- "Make time for Macedonia" (January 28, 2006) The Times Archived March 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- Larousse Gastronomique
- "Macédoine". Iga.net. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
- Juan Antonio Cincunegui (24 November 2002) "La palabra en el tiempo", Nuevo Siglo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Auguste Scheler (1888) Dictionnaire d'étymologie française d'après les résultats de la science moderne p. 313
- Dimitar Bechev, Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, Edition 2, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019, ISBN 1538119625, Introduction, p. 1.
- Alan Davidson, (1999) The Oxford Companion to Food, Oxford ISBN 0-19-211579-0. Littré. Larousse du XIXe. OED s. macedoine gives 1740 as the earliest French usage; the on-line edition (as of December 27, 2006) refers to the derivation from Alexander as "not fully established". The earliest English uses are from Henry Luttrell's poetry, in 1820; and his notes to the revised edition.