All dishes:

Desserts

Roasted apricots

Freshwater fish

Roasted eel

Rabbit

Rabbit with thyme

Shellfish and Seafood

Sautéed bay scallops with spinach

Desserts

Crepe Suzette

Crêpe with a butter and caramel sauce, freshly squeezed tangerine or orange juice, orange zest, and Grand Marnier or Curaçao.

Poultry

Braised Guinea fowl with figs

Pork

Salt pork

Salt-cured pork.

Cheeses

Humboldt Fog

United States. California.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind coated in edible vegetable ash and a thin line of ash in the center.
Ripening : 2 months.

Desserts

Sachertorte

Austria. Vienna.
Chocolate tart filled with apricot jam.

Freshwater fish

Carp in beer

Sheep and Goats

Lamb with ratatouille

Others

Caviar

Sea fish

Sole with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

Cheeses

Camembert

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with bloomy rind.

Cheeses

Tomme des Pyrénées

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrenees-Atlantique. France. Occitania. Ariège. Aude. Haute-Garonne. Hautes-Pyrénées. Pyrénées-Orientales.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk made from sheep's, goat’s and/or cow’s milk often coated with a black or golden paraffin rind.

Cheeses

Toucy

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Yonne. Auxerrois.
Soft-ripened cheese made goat’s milk with a natural rind.

Shellfish and Seafood

Clams mariniere with thyme

Mariniere sauce : reduction of white wine and fish stock (or cooking juice of mussels) with shallots (or onion) lightly bound with butter.

Cheeses

Le Gruyère alpage

Switzerland. Bern. Fribourg. Jura. Neuchâtel. Vaud.
Cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk, pressed in a hemp cloth and cooked, with few or no holes.
Cheese is produced from mid-May to mid-October.
Ripening : 10 months minimum.

Shellfish and Seafood

Clams with mariniere sauce

Mariniere sauce : reduction of white wine and fish stock (or cooking juice of mussels) with shallots (or onion) lightly bound with butter.

Sea fish

Pickled mackerel fillets in lime

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

Cheeses

Fiumorbù

France. Corsica.
Soft-ripened cheese made from sheep's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 to 5 months.

Poultry

Braised duck

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

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Shrimp risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

Poultry

Peking duck with sweet spices

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.
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.