All dishes:

Sea fish

Lox

Salmon cut into fillets or a whole piece that has been cold-smoked or cured in brine.

Pork

Diots with lentils

Diot : chopped pork sausage flavored with nutmeg and cooked in wine (white or red) with onions.

Poultry

Peking duck

To glaze : to spread honey over the skin of an animal before cooking in order to achieve a crispy and sweet texture with a shiny appearance.

Poultry

Mi-cuit duck foie gras with quince jelly

Served cold.

Offal and tripe

Tripes à la mode de Caen

France. Normandy.
Stew made with the four parts of a veal’s stomach (rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum) and an ox foot.

Eggs

Aumale scrambled eggs

Scrambled eggs, mixed with butter or cream, with tomato puree and veal kidney diced and sautéed with Madeira.

Desserts

Apple crêpe aumoniere

Offal and tripe

Calf’s brain fritters

Appetizers

Goat cheese and tomato toast

Poultry

Squab with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

Desserts

Chocolate and candied chestnuts sponge cake

Cheeses

Abbaye de Tamié

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 4 weeks.

Pork

Sausage with mashed potatoes

Desserts

Dark chocolate fondant cake

Dark chocolate : with more than 70% cocoa.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cardoon with bone marrow

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhône. Lyon.

Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop skewers with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks. Served hot.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Ricotta cannelloni

Ricotta : Italian or Maltese cheese made from whey of other cheeses, from sheep or cow milk.

Cheeses

Off Kilter

United States. Washington.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a beer-washed rind (Scotch ale).

Desserts

Caramelized pear mille-feuille

Mille-feuille : pastry made with three layers of puff pastry separated by two layers of pastry cream and covered with icing sugar or a fondant.

Sea fish

Grilled sea bass fillets with lemon juice

Shellfish and Seafood

Clams with white wine on the grill

Sheep and Goats

Grilled lamb with garlic cream

Garlic cream : sauce made with cream and cooked garlic.

Desserts

Mandarin bavarian cream

Bavarian cream : custard with whipped cream and gelatin flavored with alcohol.

Cold starters

Taramasalata

Greece. Turkey.
Taramasalata : delicacy made from fish roe (cod or mullet), blended with olive oil, crème fraîche, and lemon.
In France, it is typically served with blinis.