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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Pacific oysters

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Poultry

Roasted duck with forestière sauce

Forestière sauce : sauce based on butter, mushrooms, fresh cream, and shallots.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chanterelle

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Desserts

Orange givrée

Orange sorbet served in an orange.

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Game birds

Pheasant with Perigueux sauce

Perigueux sauce : reduction of white wine or Madeira with a blonde roux to which diced black truffles are added.

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Desserts

Caramelized pears 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.

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Beef

Rump steak with Colbert sauce

Colbert sauce : maitre d'hotel butter with gravy and tarragon.

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Cheeses

Great hill blue

United States. Massachusetts.
Blue cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Poultry

Duck in a salt crust

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Cheeses

Mature Edam

Netherlands.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 9 to 12 months.

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Sauces

Brown sauce

Brown sauce : reduced brown stock and tomato concentrate or brown roux with added butter, onion and bacon, flavored with bouquet garni.

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Poultry

Squab salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Cheeses

Mozzarella di Bufala Campana

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morel cream sauce

Morel sauce : chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Roquefort cheese pie

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