Jardinière
It is an amusing idea, this of the gardener's wife, who is supposed to go into the garden to see her husband, who filches here a carrot or two, there a turnip, now an onion or a few pods of peas, and who returns home with a medley of small vegetables in her apron. A soup with her little collection thrown into it is called a soup à la Jardinière (see Brunoise); and a steak, a cutlet or a ragout served with a similar medley is said to be a cutlet, a steak or a ragout after the fashion of the gardener's wife. As the word Macedon is used in the same way to express a medley of vegetables, and as we do not always want the same combination of garden stuff, it is a pity that one of these words is not used for one sort of medley and the other for another. But here we have two words for one and the same thing-any conceivable medley of vegetables.