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Meal families

Desserts and Sweet Courses

Fig tart

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Cheeses

Asiago d’allevo

Italy. Trentino-Alto Adige.Pressed and cooked cheese made from cow's milk.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Pistou pasta

Pistou : provençal sauce made from crushed basil, garlic, and olive oil.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster Thermidor

Lobster meat combined with a béchamel sauce and Cognac, shallots, fish stock, and mustard, then served in its shell and often gratinated.

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Rabbit

Braised rabbit

Braise : to cook food slowly, after browning it on all sides, in a small amount of flavored liquid, over low heat and covered.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach

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Shellfish and Seafood

Limpets

Aquatic snail with a shell broadly conical in shape.

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Seafish

Halibut fillets with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : shallot reduction with vinegar, mixed with egg yolks and melted butter.

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Cheeses

Mozzarella di Bufala Campana

Italy. Campania.
Fresh and stretched-curd cheese made from buffalo milk.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Coconut cake

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Beef

Roasted beef cut with pepper sauce

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

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Offal and tripe

Roast veal kidney with horseradish sauce

Horseradish sauce : velouté with grated horseradish added.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Mocha yule log

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Lemon and mascarpone mousse

Mascarpone : equivalent of « crème fraîche » in Italian cuisine.

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