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Meal families

Cheeses

Idiazábal ahumado

Spain. Basque Country.
Smoked, pressed, uncooked raw sheep's milk cheese.
Ripening : 60 days minimum.

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Cheeses

Vacherin des Bauges

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance. Bauges Mountains.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Cold starters

Salmon sashimi

Sashimi : thin slices of raw fish or shellfish.

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Cheeses

Tilsiter Switzerland

Switzerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.
Red label.

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Veal

Veal chop with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Freshwater fish

Trout au bleu

Blue : cooked in a vinegar-based court-bouillon.

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Sea fish

Monkfish tail with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Cheeses

Death & Taxes

United States. California.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a beer washed rind (Dark lager).

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Desserts

Caramel 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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Game birds

Woodstock of salmis

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

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Poultry

Chicken with ivory sauce

Ivory sauce : supreme sauce (chicken velouté with cream) and meat glaze.

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Poultry

Poultry with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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