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Meal families

Cheeses

Boulette d’Avesnes

France. Pas-de-Calais. Avesnes.
Cow's milk cheese flavored with parsley, pepper, tarragon, and cloves and later shaped into a cone by hand.

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Warm starters

Ficelle picarde

France. Picardy.
Crepe filled with a mushroom preparation, cream, York ham and shallot, nutmeg and onion. All covered grated cheese.

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Main meals

Aligot

Aligot : mashed potatoes mixed with butter, cream, crushed garlic, and melted cheese (Tome fraîche de l’Aubrac).

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Sea fish

Bourride

France. Languedoc. Provence.
Fish stew based on stewed white fishes (monkfish, sea bass, mackerel, mullet) with a brunoise of vegetables (carrots, celery, onions, leeks ...) with aioli or mayonnaise with olive accompanied by croutons rubbed with garlic oil.

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Appetizers

Arancini al ragù

Italy. Sicilia.
Breaded and fried rice balls or cones 8 to 12 cm in diameter, stuffed with ragu (meat in tomato sauce) and peas./ Served hot.

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Desserts

White chocolate merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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