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Meal families

Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Cade

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes. Var.
Thick galette made from chickpea flour and olive oil cooked and browned over a wood fire.
Served hot.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Fontainebleau

Dessert made with fresh cow's milk cheese and whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Persillé de Tignes

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Tarentaise. Tignes.
Blue cheese made from a blend of raw goat’s (80%) and cow’s (20%) milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and natural rind.

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Cheeses

Havarti

Denmark.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pear and vanilla crumble

Crumble : a baked dish consisting of a layer of fruits, vegetables, meat, etc., topped with a crumbly mixture of butter, flour, and sugar, baked until the topping is crisp.

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Eggs

Scotch eggs

United Kingdom.
Hard-boiled peeled egg wrapped in minced meat sausage, coated with breadcrumbs, then baked or fried.

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Pork

Diots with lentils

Diot : chopped pork sausage flavored with nutmeg and cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Sauces

Piquante sauce

Piquante sauce : white wine–based sauce with a reduction of shallots and vinegar, flavored with chervil, pickles, and parsley, and finished with a veal demi-glace.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Arcachon gravettes prepared Bordelaise-style

Gravette : Arcachon bay oyster.
Bordeaux style : with small sausages or warm crépinettes.

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Feathered game

Wood pigeon salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Beef

Roast beef tournedos

Tournedos : a thick slice cut from the tenderloin (about one to two centimeters).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Kouign amann

France. Brittany. Finistère. Douarnenez.
Crispy cake made with bread dough containing butter and sugar, folded in layers, like puff pastry but with fewer layers.
Served warm or hot.

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Gougères with Comté

Gougères stuffed with Comté cheese.

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Eggs

Eggs Benedict

Two halves of a toasted English muffin topped with fried bacon, a poached egg, and Hollandaise sauce.

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Cheeses

St. Albans

United States. Vermont.
Soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with bloomy rind.

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