Fruit cocktail. Fruit salad.

Fruit cocktail. Fruit salad.

Fresh fruit cocktail. Fresh fruit salad.

As in cooking generally, a macedonia of vegetables is a combination of aromatic vegetables, such as carrots, onions, turnips, cut into small, neat, uniform cubes. Used a a basis for a sauce or stew.

To macerate. To steep in a liquid to soften a foodstuff.

Maceration. The action or process of softening by steeping in a liquid.

"Carbonic maceration." A process in which grapes are stored under pressure in sealed containers so that they partially ferment and generate carbon dioxide. It is used primarily in making vino novello.