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Meal families

Cured Meats

Poultry liver pâté with pistachios

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Pork

American pork ribs

American : BBQ sauce with paprika.

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Cold starters

Turkey meatloaf

Ballotine : piece of meat, game, fish, or poultry that is deboned, rolled, stuffed, and tied, cooked in a casserole or set in jelly.

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Seafish

Smoked salmon carpaccio

Carpaccio : dish made of thin slices, typically served with olive oil and a few drops of lemon.

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Cured Meats

Rosette de Lyon

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhône. Lyon.
Dry sausage weighing between 550 and 700 grams, about 40 cm long, and containing no more than 15 to 20% fat.
It is made from a blend of high-quality pork cuts (shoulder, ham, loin, belly) and bardière (fatback), finely chopped, salted, and seasoned with salt, black pepper, garlic, regional red wine, lactic ferments, and sometimes nutmeg or mace. After being tied and cured with saltpeter, it is aged for at least 50 days.

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Cheeses

Idyll gris

United States. Michigan.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind rind coated in ash.
Ripening : 12 to 21 days.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Strawberry bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruits, cream, and sometimes jam.

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Pork

Moo shu pork

Northern China.
Sliced pork mixed with small pieces of omelette, wheat noodles, onions, toasted sesame seeds, and optionally black mushrooms and bamboo shoots, seasoned with peanut oil.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Peach bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruits, cream, and sometimes jam.

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Poultry

Chicken en barbouille

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher. Indre. Berry.
En barbouille : chicken stewed in red wine with blood sauce.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Caramel merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Pork

Saint-Hubert suckling pig

Suckling pig : 4 to 6 weeks, weighing between 6 and 12 kg.
Saint-Hubert : stuff with chicken breast, pork, veal and smoked bacon, chestnut, onion, leek and potato.

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Veal

Roast veal tendron

Tendron : french butcher's cut from the veal breast containing cartilage and layers of fat and meat.

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Main courses

Cheese fondue

Switzerland.
Dish made with hard cheeses (Beaufort, Comté, Swiss Gruyère, Vacherin Fribourgeois).

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Cherry merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Cheeses

L’Ami du Chambertin

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

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