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Meal families

Main meals

Seafood 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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Main meals

Chicken tajine with curry

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Poultry

Roast goose Alsatian style

Stuffed goose serve with sauerkraut.

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Appetizers

Roquefortins

Toast with Roquefort cheese mixed with walnuts and raisins.

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Pork

Pork shoulder with diable sauce

France. Grand Est. Alsace.
Pork shoulder coated in a mustard sauce with garlic, shallot and parsley, wrapped in pig's caul fat.

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Cheeses

Aged brick

United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 7 months.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop tartare with herbs

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.

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Desserts

Honey soufflé

Served hot.

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Cold starters

Crab pâté

Served cold.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with flageolets beans

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.

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