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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Cumin-spiced roasted carrots

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Walnut mocha cake

Mocha cake : sponge cake with coffee-flavored buttercream.

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Cold starters

Scallop sashimi

Sashimi : thin slices of raw fish or shellfish.

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Cheeses

Robiola 3 latti

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont. Langhe.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw sheep's, goat’s and cow's milk with a natural rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Eton mess

United Kingdom.
Dessert made with strawberries, meringue, and cream.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Grilled langoustine

Scampi : langoustine without head.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Chocolate 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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Sauces

White sauce

White sauce : sauce made from heated flour and butter with added hot liquid (broth, water, pan juices, wine).

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Cured Meats

Pork liver pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices, etc cooked in a terracotta container.
Served cold or at room temperature.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb with red wine sauce

Red wine sauce : a rich sauce made with veal stock and red wine, blended with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper, and thyme.

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Beef

Rib steak with coarse salt and bone marrow

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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