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Meal families

Sea fish

Roasted sea bass with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Poultry

Duck aiguillette with cherry

Aiguillette : thin slice cut lengthwise from a poultry breast.

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Sea fish

Avruga caviar

Kipper (smoked herring) flesh colored with cuttlefish ink, shaped like fish roe (caviar alternative).

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Main meals

Chicken tajine with curry

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Pork

Pig’s trotters pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pizza alla puttanesca

Pizza made with anchovies, capers, olives, and bell peppers.

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Cheeses

Baked mozzarella

Mozzarella : fresh and stretched-curd cheese made from buffalo milk.

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Poultry

Chicken fricassee

Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.

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Main meals

Tofailles

France. Grand Est. Vosges.
Slow-cooked dish (1h30 to 2h) made with onions, potatoes, bacon slices or lardons and white wine, with or without leeks.
Served with a green salad.

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Cooked meats

Rabbit pâté with prunes

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Cold starters

Bay scallop paté

Served cold.

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Cheeses

Trappe de Bricquebec

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

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Cheeses

Pérail de brebis

France. Occitania. Aveyron. Tarn.
Soft-ripened cheese made from sheep's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 1 to 3 weeks.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Galette with seafood

Galette : savory crepe.

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Sheep and Goats

Seven hour leg of lamb

Leg of lamb : cut of meat consisting of the saddle and the leg
One thigh is called Chump.
Seven hours : slow-cooked in wine with garlic and herbs until the meat falls off the bone.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster à l’américaine

American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."

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Ice cream and sorbets

Apricot sorbet

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