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Meal families

Cheeses

Edam demi-étuvé

Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 3 to 4 months.

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Cheeses

Brocciu

France. Corsica.
Sheep’s milk cheese made from a combination of milk and whey.

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Sea fish

Sole bonne femme

Bonne femme sauce : butter, button mushrooms, cream, shallot, parsley and white wine.

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Cold starters

Eggs with Aurora sauce

Aurora sauce : cream sauce coloured with tomato sauce.

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Appetizers

Carolines with ham

Puffs stuffed with bechamel and ham.

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Cold starters

Egg aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Poultry

Tandoori chicken

Tandoori : meat or fish marinated and coated in yogurt mixed with spices (garam masala, ginger, garlic, cumin, cayenne pepper).

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Desserts

Blancmange

Sweet dessert made with milk or cream, flavored and thickened with potato starch or cornstarch.

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Cheeses

Kunik

United States. New York.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from a blend of pasteurized goat’s and cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Cheeses

Ewephoria

Netherlands. Friesland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Beef

Beef daube and mashed potato with black truffle

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

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Sea fish

Kazunoko

Japan.
Salted or dried herring roe.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shellfish

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Pork

Diots

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Chopped pork sausage flavored with nutmeg and cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch quenelles with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops a la nage

Nage : cooked in a delicate broth flavored with butter, white wine, vegetables, and aromatic herbs.

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Pork

Pork crépinettes

Minced pork wrapped in caul fat.

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