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Meal families

Cheeses

Saint-Nectaire

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Pays des monts-Dore (Cantal, Puy de Dôme).
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.
Ripening : 28 days minimum.
Bear the mention « Saint-Nectaire laitier ».

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Extra

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 to 8 months.
Black label.

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Sheep and Goats

Champvallon style lamb chops

Champvallon : baked between two layers of potatoes with poultry broth.

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Desserts

Rice Condé

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

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Cheeses

Délice de Bourgogne

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Yonne.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Cheeses

Pierre Robert

France. Île de France. Seine-et-Marne. Tournan-en-Brie.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Poultry

Chicken tikka masala

Pieces of chicken marinated in spices and yogurt and baked in the oven.

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Sea fish

Shad with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Drôme. Isère.
Soft blue cheese made from cow's milk.
Ripening : at least 3 weeks.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Wild mushrooms tart

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Main meals

Spicy gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Dish usually served with rice.

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Desserts

Vatrushka with raisins

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

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