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Meal families

Main meals

Salted pork with lentils

Salt pork : salt-cured pork.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels with curry sauce

Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.

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Cooked meats

Rillettes de Tours

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Indre-et-Loire. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique. Maine-et-Loire. Saumur. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Cold cut made from shredded pork meat, slowly cooked over low heat in fat and seasoned with salt, pepper, spices, and Vouvray wine.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk-fed lamb with thyme

Milk-fed lamb : lamb aged between 4 and 6 weeks, weighing between 5.5 and 8 kg.

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Offal and tripe

Tripe

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Main meals

Shrimp jambalaya

United States. Louisiana. New Orleans.
Kind of paella with shrimp, rice and spicy.

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Cheeses

Gorgonzola

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont.
Blue cheese made from cow's milk.

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Poultry

Chicken fricassee with cream sauce

Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.
Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Game birds

Grilled wood pigeon à la goutte de sang with porcini raviole

Cooked à la goutte de sang : quick sear over medium-high heat to brown the surface of the meat while keeping the inside pink.
Ravioles : stuffed pasta, smaller and thinner than traditional ravioli.

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Cold starters

Salmon aspic

Aspic : a cold dish in which the ingredients (vegetables, fruits, eggs, fish, meat, and/or poultry) are encased in a jelly made from stock or consommé.

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca curado

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk, brown in color.
Ripening : 5 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Etxegarai

Spain. Basque Country.
Smoked, pressed, uncooked raw sheep's milk cheese.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Chirashizushi

Vinegared cooked rice combined with other ingredients : avocado, seafood, fish, sashimi, tamagoyaki…

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Veal

Sautéed veal with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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