Eggplant and Tomato (Marius Morard's Classic Recipe)

The simple combination of eggplant and tomato excludes the squash and red bell pepper of ratatouille, which by comparison is a confused dish. Marius Morard, in his excellent Manuel Complet de la Cuisinière Provençale, published in 1886, called this “aubergines à la marseillaise.” Tomatoes are used so often in southern European cooking that even when the…