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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Macaroni and cheese

Cooked macaroni pasta with a cheese sauce, generaly cheddar.

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Cheeses

Patachouffe

Belgium.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk with a beer-washed rind.

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Cheeses

Picodon

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Occitanie. Cévennes.
Soft-ripened cheese made goat’s milk with a natural rind.

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Furred game

Venison fillet with huntsman sauce

Huntsman sauce : poivrade sauce thickened with cream, blood, and redcurrant jelly.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Squid in american sauce

American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."American sauce : a tomato-based sauce blended with softened butter, crushed lobster roe and eggs, all strained.
In France, by mistake, the "American sauce" can be distorted into "sauce armoricaine."

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Stuffed mushrooms with taramasalata

Taramasalata : delicacy made from fish roe (cod or mullet), blended with olive oil, crème fraîche, and lemon.
In France, it is typically served with blinis.

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Cured Meats

Capicola

France. Italy. Switzerland.
Pork cold cut from the dry-cured muscle running from the neck to the shoulder.

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Main courses

Cheese fondue

Switzerland.
Dish made with hard cheeses (Beaufort, Comté, Swiss Gruyère, Vacherin Fribourgeois).

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Cheeses

Kanternagelkaas

Netherlands. Friesland.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from cow's milk flavored with cumin and clove.

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Seafish

Sole fillets with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Cheeses

Vacherin d’Abondance

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie. Abondance.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind encircled with a strip of spruce bark.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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Seafish

Provençal hake

Provençal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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