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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pineapple carpaccio

Pineapple sliced into very thin pieces, drizzled with a vanilla syrup.

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Main courses

Lamb tajine with prunes

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Consommés, Broths and Soups

Pauchouse

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Specialty made from pieces of lean freshwater fish (pike, perch, zander) and fatty fish (eel, carp, salmon, tench, trout), cooked in a white wine sauce and served with croutons, bacon bits, and potatoes.

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Main courses

Tielle

France. Occitania. Hérault. Sète.
Pie filled with squid, octopus or cuttlefish mixed with a spicy tomato sauce.

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Cheeses

Death & Taxes

United States. California.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a beer washed rind (Dark lager).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Fresh fruit tart

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Veal

Veal medallion with vin jaune

Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm thick) sliced from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb with thyme

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

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Poultry

Sautéed chicken supreme

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.

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Hot Starters

Ficelle picarde

France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Oise. Somme. (Picardy).
Crêpe filled with a preparation of mushrooms, crème fraîche, York ham with shallot, nutmeg, onion and topped with grated Emmental cheese.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Prawn risotto

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

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Sauces

Vinaigrette

Emulsified sauce obtained by mixing an acidic liquid (lemon juice, vinegar) with a fatty substance (oil, sour cream, mayonnaise, yogurt) generally accompanied by a spoonful of mustard, pepper and salt and often aromatic herbs.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Condé apricots

Vanilla rice pudding cake topped with syrupy apricots.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted milk-fed lamb

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart, Pie

Fouace angevine

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Warm round loaf filled with pork rillettes.

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