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Meal families

Desserts

Chocolate marquise with caramel sauce

Marquise : dessert or frozen dessert made with chocolate mousse (white, milk or dark chocolate).

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Offal and tripe

Bordeaux style tricandilles

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gironde.

Specialty made from pork tripe, sliced and blanched in a court-bouillon, then grilled and enhanced with garlic and a touch of fresh pepper.

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Sea fish

Grilled herrings with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Sea fish

Bourride

France. Occitania. Aude. Gard. Hérault. Pyrénées-Orientales. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Alpes-Maritimes. Bouches-du-Rhône. Var.
Steamed white fish soup (monkfish, sea bass, mackerel, mullet), served with a vegetable brunoise (carrot, celery, onion, leek, etc) and accompanied by aioli or olive oil mayonnaise, with garlic-rubbed croutons.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Green asparagus with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : shallot reduction with vinegar, mixed with egg yolks and melted butter.

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Cheeses

Brousse

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Dairy product (officially not considered a cheese) made from whey derived from sheep's, goat's, or cow's milk.

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Sea fish

Curled fried whiting

Fried whiting with hard-boiled egg mayonnaise.

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Cooked meats

Andouillette with shallots

Andouillette cooked with dry white wine, butter, and shallots.
Served hot.

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Offal and tripe

Pieds paquets

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Sisteron. Bouches-du-Rhône. Marseille.
Dish made with sheep’s feet and stuffed tripe, filled with pork belly or salted pork, slowly simmered in a white wine and tomato sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb fricassee

Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.

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Sea fish

Golden sea bream in salt crust

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Fruit sorbet

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Desserts

Croquembouche

Tiered cake with choux pastry balls piled into a cone and bound with threads of caramel. Pastry centerpiece with praline cream puffs or duchess bread rolls / Croquembouche with praline choux or duchess buns

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