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Meal families

Cooked meats

Leverpostej

Sweden.
Pork liver pâté with lard.

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Cheeses

Tomme de Courchevel

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie. Tarentaise. Praslin.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Sea fish

Citrus gravlax salmon

Gravlax : fresh salmon marinated with dill, spices, and herbs, cured with salt and sugar, served with a mustard sauce.

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Desserts

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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Cooked meats

Duck paté with duck foie gras and black truffle

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Game birds

Roast young partridge with porcini mushrooms

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Veal

Grilled veal tendron

Tendron : french butcher's cut from the veal breast containing cartilage and layers of fat and meat.

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Cold starters

Salmon aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Game birds

Tomato bocconcini skewers

Bocconcini : fresh stretched-curd cheese made from small-sized buffalo milk (bite-sized).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel cream sauce

Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Cooked meats

Amiens duck pâté

Pâté en croûte made with duck and pork, along with mushrooms or truffles, Cognac, shallots, egg, white bread, apples, spices, pepper, and salt, set in a jelly.

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Cold starters

Avocado with shrimp sauce

Shrimp sauce : fish velouté mixed with shrimp butter.

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Cheeses

Torta del Casar

Spain. Extremadura.
Raw sheep's milk cheese curdled with wild thistle with a medium to very creamy texture and a semi-hard rind between yellow and ocher in color.

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Poultry

Pigeon and mallard salmis

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sautéed wild mushrooms

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Desserts

Praline bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

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