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Meal families

Cheeses

L’Amuse Signature Gouda

Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with orange waxed rind.
Ripening : 2 years.

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Cold starters

Taramasalata

Greece. Turkey.
Taramasalata : delicacy made from fish roe (cod or mullet), blended with olive oil, crème fraîche, and lemon.
In France, it is typically served with blinis.

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Main courses

Black truffle stew

Black truffles cooked in fat and white wine diluted with broth, served with toasted bread.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Rice Condé

Rice pudding with a sugar-egg mixture added at the end of cooking.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Vatrushka with lemon

Russia. Ukraine.
Brioche-style cake filled with cream cheese, sometimes flavored.

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Poultry

Roasted duck with forestière sauce

Forestière sauce : sauce based on butter, mushrooms, fresh cream, and shallots.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Cheesecake

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Cheeses

Schloss

United States. California.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with orange washed rind, packed in a wooden box.
Ripening : 5 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chanterelle

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Miscellaneous

Pork pita

Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with sliced pork meat, hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).

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Cheeses

Mozzarella di Bufala Campana

Italy. Campania.
Fresh and stretched-curd cheese made from buffalo milk.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles mariniere

Mariniere sauce : reduction of white wine and fish stock (or cooking juice of mussels) with shallots (or onion) lightly bound with butter.

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