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Meal families

Beef

Beef Wellington

Beef fillet in puff pastry with spices such as curry or ginger.

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Cheeses

Caerphilly

United Kingdom. Wales.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a natural rind.

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Cheeses

Louis d’Or

Canada. Quebec.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 9 months.

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Cheeses

Dauphin

France. Hauts-de-France. Aisne. Nord.
Maroilles form.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 2 to 4 months.

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Cheeses

Fromage de Herve

Belgium. Limburger.
Pasteurized Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Fennel tart

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Poultry

Guinea fowl with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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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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Cheeses

Extra Mature Clothbound Cheddar

United Kingdom. Devon.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk cheese coated in butter or lard and wrapped in an additional layer of cloth.
Ripening : 18 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Imam bayildi

Turkey.
Braised eggplants stuffed with garlic, onion, tomato in olive oil and simmered in the oven.
Served with rice.

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Desserts

Candied chestnut vacherin

Vacherin : dessert made of meringue filled with ice cream or sorbet, sometimes with fruit, and topped with whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Le Gruyère alpage réserve

Switzerland. Bern. Fribourg. Jura. Neuchâtel. Vaud.
Cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk, pressed in a hemp cloth and cooked, with few or no holes.
Cheese is produced from mid-May to mid-October.
Ripening : 10 months minimum.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish gratin with Nantua sauce

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

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