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Meal families

Sheep and Goats

Spit roasted kid goat with persillade sauce

Persillade sauce : blend of chopped parsley and garlic mixed with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil and vinegar.

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Summer roll

Vietnam.
Summer roll : shrimp, vegetables, or beef or pork wrapped in raw rice paper (bánh tráng).
Served cold.

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Miscellaneous

Snail cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Cheeses

Wrangeback

Sweden.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 10 to 15 months.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with morel mushrooms and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

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Cheeses

Little boy blue cheese

United States. Wisconsin.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk.
Ripening : 6 to 8 weeks.

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Veal

Veal medallion with porcini mushrooms

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

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pineapple trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake soaked in fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes layered with jam, custard, and whipped cream.

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Furred game

Saddle of hare a la royale

A la royale : slow-cooked with red wine and Cognac and completely deboned.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Basque cake with black jam

Basque Country.
Cake filled with black cherry jam.

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Seafish

Roasted John Dory with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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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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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Merveilleux : Sphere or half-sphere shaped cake made of two meringues joined with praline whipped cream, covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Poultry

Geline with black truffle

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Cold starters

Crab mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : emulsion of oil with egg yolk, mustard, pepper, and sometimes a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Miscellaneous

Yakitori

Skewers made with beef, mushrooms, chicken wings and quail eggs, cheese-stuffed pork, chicken, etc., served with salt or teriyaki sauce.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Strawberry soup

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