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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Leeks vinaigrette

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Consommé and Soup

Mussel soup

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shrimp nem

Spring roll : thin pancake made from wheat or rice flour, stuffed with pork, chicken, or seafood, along with mushrooms and/or various julienned vegetables, then fried in a wok or sometimes steamed.
Served hot.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled eggplants with Chavignol

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Cheeses

Taupinette charentaise

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente. Roullet-Saint-Estèphe.
Soft-ripened dome-shaped cheese made from raw goat's milk with a bloomy rind covered in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

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Freshwater fish

Trout 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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Sheep and Goats

Tripotxa

Spiced lamb blood sausage sometimes combined with veal.

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Cheeses

Saint-Jorge Patrão

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 16 months.

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Main meals

Tablier de sapeur with tartare sauce

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhône. Lyon.
Tartar sauce : mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles and chopped parsley.
Dish usually served with steamed potatoes.

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Cooked meats

Roasted andouille from Guéméné with mashed potatoes

Andouille : pork sausage crafted from the complete pork belly, including both the stomach and intestines.
Served hot.

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Cheeses

Petit suisse

France. Normandy.
Fresh cheese made from pasteurized cow’s milk enriched with cream.

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Cheeses

Picodon

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Occitanie. Cévennes.
Soft-ripened cheese made goat’s milk with a natural rind.

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Veal

Veal medallion with vin jaune

Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm thick) sliced from the tenderloin, prepared in the style of a tournedos.

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Cheeses

Kanterkaas

Netherlands. Friesland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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