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Meal families

Sauces

Mole chicken

Mole : sauce made with peanuts, cocoa, chili, sesame, tomato and thickened with corn dough, bread, or tortilla (fried and crumbled).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop gratin

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked over a pine needle fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Cheeses

Burrata

Italy. Apulia.
Fresh and stretched-curd cheese made from buffalo or cow's milk, filled with cream and sealed with an edible raffia tie.

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Cheeses

Grand Chimay

Belgium. Thiérache.
Pressed cheese made from pasteurized cow’s milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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Cheeses

French gruyère

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Ain. Haute-Savoie. Isère. Savoie. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte-d’Or. Doubs. Haute-Saône. Jura. Saône-et-Loire. Territoire de Belfort. Grand Est. Haute-Marne. Vosges.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk containing holes ranging in size from a pea to a cherry.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seafood soufflé

Served hot.

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Veal

Roast milk-fed veal with Saint George’s mushrooms

Milk-fed veal : veal under 20 weeks old, fed exclusively on milk.

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Sea fish

Skate with black butter sauce

Beurre noir (black butter sauce) : butter cooked until it takes on a dark color, in reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine, vinegar).

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Sea fish

Steamed John Dory with beurre blanc sauce

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

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Cheeses

Sunset bay

United States. Oregon.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat's milk with a natural rind.

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Cooked meats

Andouille de Charlieu

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Charlieu.
Pork sausage using mainly of pork heart and throat marinated in red wine with herbs and spices.
Served hot or cold.

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Pork

Tonkatsu

Japan.
Breaded and fried pork cutlet served with shredded cabbage, Worcestershire sauce and karashi (Chinese mustard).
Dish usually served with rice and miso soup.

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Salads

Waldorf salad

Julienned apple and celery salad with walnuts and a mayonnaise dressing.

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