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Meal families

Poultry

Sautéed chicken supreme

Poultry supreme : all the white meat from the breast and wings of poultry.

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Cheeses

Trivium goat Cheddar

United States. Wisconsin.
Pressed, uncooked pasteurized goat's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 months.

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Sea fish

Sole with meunière sauce

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

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Cold starters

Fish and vegetable pâté

Served cold.

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Cheeses

Bay blue

United States. California.
Blue cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 3 months.

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Veal

Wiener Schnitzel

Veal coated in breadcrumbs and fried.

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Main meals

Mique lotoise

France. Occitania. Lot. Tarn-et-Garonne. (Quercy).
A type of bread dumpling cooked in a broth with meat (usually salt pork, short ribs, and hock, sometimes also andouille sausage) and vegetables (carrot, cabbage, turnip, leek, potato).
Served hot or cold.

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Sea fish

Brill with dieppoise sauce

Dieppoise sauce : A Normandy-style sauce (béchamel with added fresh cream) enriched with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Cheeses

Rupert reserve

United States. Vermont.
Raw cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste and washed rind.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb navarin with black olives

Navarin : stew.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras

Served cold.

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Desserts

Apple cobbler

United Kingdom. United States.
Cobbler : a dessert consisting of a fruit filling poured into a baking dish and covered with a crust.
In the Southern United States, the cobbler has both a top and bottom crust.

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Game animals

Bordeaux style wild boar

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Poultry

Squab with duck foie gras and black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

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Sheep and Goats

Saddle of lamb with herbs

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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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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Consommé and Soup

Lamb chorba

Algeria.
Soup with chickpeas, lamb, vermicelli, spices and fresh herbs.

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