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Meal families

Main meals

Potjevleesch

France. Hauts-de-France. Nord. Flanders.
Chicken, rabbit, pork and veal meats set in aspic or fat and served cold with chips and pickled vegetables.

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Sauces

Ketchup

Sauce based on tomato sauce, vinegar and sugar.

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Main meals

Schiffala

France. Grand Est. Alsace.
Smoked pork shoulder with sour turnips.

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Sea fish

Sea bass supreme with beurre blanc sauce

Fish suprême : boneless fillet.
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Poultry

Chicken cutlets Pozharsky

Pojarski : meatball with breadcrumbs, cream, and eggs, pan-fried until golden.

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Main meals

Chicken 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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Cheeses

Coulommiers

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Meaux. Coulommiers.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with bloomy rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Desserts

Dark chocolate dessert

Dark chocolate : with more than 70% cocoa.

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Desserts

Devil’s food cake

Chocolate layer cake filled with chocolate cream and covered with chocolate icing.

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Cheeses

Saint-Paulin

Canada. France.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fish pie

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Shellfish and Seafood

Fried squid rings

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Cheeses

Brabander

Netherlands. North Holland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with waxed rind.
Ripening : 6 to 9 months.

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Pork

Braised pork chop

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Ginger shrimp

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