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Meal families

Main meals

Mushroom fondue

Fondue made with Gruyère, Vacherin Fribourgeois, and mushrooms.

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Pork

Grilled pig’s trotter with béarnaise sauce

Bearnaise sauce : hot sauce with clarified butter and reduction of shalots with vinegar and tarragon emulsified in egg yolks.

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Appetizers

Socca

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. Alpes-Maritimes.
Thin galette made from chickpea flour and olive oil cooked and browned over a wood fire.
Served hot.

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Desserts

Pear and vanilla crumble

Crumble : a baked dish consisting of a layer of fruits, vegetables, meat, etc., topped with a crumbly mixture of butter, flour, and sugar, baked until the topping is crisp.

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Desserts

Red berry bayadere with mascarpone mousse

Bayadère : alternating stripes of different colours.

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Main meals

Spicy gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : a vegetable stew (celery, onion, bell pepper) with a thick, highly aromatic broth, to which seafood (typically crab, shrimp, or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken, and smoked meats like andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Dish usually served with rice.

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Sea fish

Darne of salmon with beurre blanc sauce

Darne : cross-section of one inch in thickness, including the backbone.
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Others

Smoked meat

Canada. Quebec. Montreal.
A rye bread sandwich with sweet mustard and many thin slices of stacked smoked beef.

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Beef

Beef cheek daube with red wine and braised endives

Daube : braised stew (lamb, beef, mutton, octopus, wild boar or bull) marinated in white or red wine and aromatics.

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Veal

Rack of veal with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Extra

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 to 8 months.
Black label.

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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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