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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Cooked sea urchin

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Veal

Veal Milanese

Milanesa : with a Parmesan breadcrumb crust.

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Cheeses

Pavé de Calais

France. Hauts-de-France. Nord. Pas-de-Calais.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a orange-colored washed rind.
Ripening : 2 to 4 weeks.

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Sauces

Gribiche sauce

Gribiche sauce : enhanced tartar sauce (mayonnaise with capers, chives, gherkins, and chopped parsley) with chopped hard-boiled eggs.

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Appetizers

Arancini al ragù

Italy. Sicilia.
Breaded and fried rice balls or cones, 8 to 12 cm in diameter, filled with ragù (meat in tomato sauce) and peas.
Served hot.

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Sea fish

Salt-crusted sea bass

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish and Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce : a tomato-flavored fish velouté with crayfish butter.

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Sauces

Bagna cauda

A specialty originating from Piedmont.
Warm sauce made with anchovies, garlic, and olive oil, into which raw vegetables are dipped.

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Sauces

Cocktail sauce

Cocktail sauce : ketchup and mayonnaise sauce with a dash of Cognac or Whisky and tabasco.

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Sheep and Goats

Potato crusted saddle of lamb

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

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Pork

Pork tenderloin with mustard sauce

Mustard sauce : hollandaise sauce with mustard.

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Pork

Boudin blanc

Boudin blanc : white sausage made of white meat with milk instead of blood.

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Pork

Rethel boudin blanc

France. Grand Est. Ardennes.
White sausage made only from pork meat with milk instead of blood.

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Cheeses

L’Ami du Chambertin

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a marc de Bourgogne washed rind.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Salmon pizza

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