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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pineapple tart

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop tartare with lime and curry sauce

Tartare : raw ingredient cut into cubes, brunoise, or coarsely chopped, with a strong seasoning.
Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.

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Miscellaneous

Chicken gyros

Gyros : greek-origin sandwich, derived from döner kebab, made with meat, onion, tomato and tzatziki sauce in pita bread.

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Poultry

Poultry with perigourdine sauce

Perigourdine sauce : Périgueux sauce (white wine reduction with blonde roux and diced black truffles) enhanced with onions, shallots and duck foie gras.

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Sauces

Peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots deglazed with Cognac, enhanced with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock, and heavy cream.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Walnut macarons

Macaron : cupcake made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Far breton

France. Brittany.
Dessert made from butter, flour, milk and sugar with a denser consistency than a flan.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Saint-Honoré

Saint-Honoré : puff pastry or shortcrust base topped with choux pastry before baking, then covered with pastry cream and small cream-filled choux puffs glazed with caramel around the edges.
The center of the cake is filled with whipped cream or a Chiboust cream (pastry cream mixed with Italian meringue).

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Miscellaneous

Pork pita

Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with sliced pork meat, hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).

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Beef

White grape beef stew

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood risotto

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

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with spices

Navarin : stew.

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Cheeses

Chavroux

Fresh cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk.

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Cheeses

Ash-ripened goat cheese log

Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind rind coated in ash.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Crema catalana

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Cheeses

L’amour de Nuits

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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