The essential historical basis to memorize is that salad from Nice is in reality a simple tomato salad which has been transmitted orally through the ages. Can cookbook talk about it. The original traditional recipe is only based on raw vegetables.
Stuffed vegetables from Nice are typical of Nice. There are a multitude of ways to cook them, so there are many different recipes. However, there is a traditional basis. Like many other Nice dishes, they originated in modest culinary circles. Leftover meats were used, such as heels of ham and leftovers from cooked dishes like daube niçoise, or sometimes they were prepared without meat at all. As for vegetables, we used those from the Nice region and, by extension, from the Mediterranean basin.
In traditional Niçoise pissaladière, onions are mixed with "Pissalat" sauce (from the Niçois Occitan peis salat, "salted fish"), a paste made by macerating sardines and/or anchovies in coarse salt. Today, given the difficulty of obtaining real Pissalat, it's replaced by anchovy fillets added to the pissaladière. That's what I'd do for this 2024 version of pissaladière.
Gnocchi is an Italian culinary specialty with complex historical and cultural origins. In the 20th century, gnocchi enjoyed a new wave of popularity in Italy, thanks to the spread of television and the media, which promoted traditional Italian dishes, including gnocchi. Today, gnocchi is a popular dish in many countries around the world.
Daube niçoise, like many other Niçoise dishes, is a very old recipe, considered to be a "poor man's dish", which has become a staple of Niçoise gastronomic cuisine, along with salade niçoise and pan-bagnat. I'll soon be introducing you to these two other Niçoise dishes, which are much simpler to prepare.
