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Meal families

Cheeses

Ewe’s blue

United States. New York.
Blue-veined pasteurized ewe's milk cheese.
Ripening : 2 to 4 months.

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Pork

Roast pork with sweet spices

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Whelks tartar

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Desserts

Apricot bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard cream mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine flavored with an alcohol.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

White truffle risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetables pinzimonio

Pinzimonio : raw vegetables soaked with seasoned olive oil.

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Cold starters

Zakuski

Russia.
Hors-d'œuvre served as starter to a meal (caviar, cold cuts, smoked or marinated fish, malossol, salads…).

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Beef

Beef tongue with sauce ravigote

Ravigote sauce : lightly acidic hot or cold sauce with velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted saddle of lamb with thyme

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Pork

Grilled pig’s trotter with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Pavin

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Puy-de-Dôme.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Sea fish

Red mullet with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Sheep and Goats

Kid goat with garlic and parsley butter

Garlic and parsley butter : butter, garlic and parsley mixed.

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