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Meal families

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Anchovy pizza

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Cheeses

Humboldt Fog

United States. California.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind coated in edible vegetable ash and a thin line of ash in the center.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Consommé and Soup

Zurrukutuna

Basque Country.
Soup made with cod, peppers and garlic.

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Beef

Beef daube with black olives

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Appetizers

American-style pigs in a blanket

Sausage wrapped in puff pastry.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Dolma

Grape leaves or vegetables (eggplant, cabbage, zucchini, bell pepper, tomato, etc) stuffed with spices, onion, rice and sometimes ground meat.

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Desserts

Macarons of Saint-Emilion

Sweet meringue-based confection made with egg whites, sugar, almonds, and bitter almonds.

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Cooked meats

Andouillette with red wine

Andouillette cooked with red wine and deglazed with cream.

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Cheeses

Chavroux

Fresh cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Crab tart

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Cold starters

Meatloaf

Ballotine : piece of meat, game, fish, or poultry that is deboned, rolled, stuffed, and tied, cooked in a casserole or set in jelly.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seven-vegetable couscous with herb broth

Steamed wheat semolina served with a vegetable stew (purple artichoke, carrot, zucchini, fava bean, turnip, green pea, tomato) accompanied by a spiced broth.
Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Cheeses

Brin d’Amour

France. Corsica.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw sheep's milk with a natural rind coated with aromatic herbs, juniper berries, and small chili peppers.
Ripening : 1 to 3 months.

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Poultry

Squab salmis

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

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