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Meal families

Cheeses

Brie de Meaux

France. Brie. Meaux.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with white mould rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Seafood skewers

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Desserts

Cassata

Italy. Sicily. Sponge cake with fruit juices or liqueur stuffed with ricotta cheese and a chocolate or vanilla filling. Covered with a shell of marzipan, usually green, and topped with candied fruit.

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Offal and tripe

Lamb brain with black butter sauce

Black butter: butter cooked until it turns a dark color, reaction with an acid (capers, lemon juice, white wine vinegar).

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Zwiebelkuchen

Germany. Hesse Rhineland. Palatinate.
Onion tart with diced bacon, cream and caraway seeds.

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Veal

Calf’s head with ravigote sauce

Ravigote sauce : lightly acidic hot or cold sauce with velouté or vinaigrette with capers, egg yolks, shallots or onion and aromatic herbs (chervil, tarragon, parsley).

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Veal

Veal chop with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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Game birds

Grilled wood pigeon à la goutte de sang with porcini raviole

Cooked à la goutte de sang : fast cooking of meat moderately high for there to be surface coloration of the flesh but the interior remains red.
Ravioles : filled pasta.

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Poultry

Spatchcocked chicken with garlic and rosemary

Spatchcock : bird prepared for grilling or roasting by removing the backbone and sternum and flattening it out before cooking.

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Sea fish

Sole with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Poultry

Duck foie gras with figs

Served hot, warm or cold.

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Sea fish

Salmon with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Cheeses

Fourme d’Ambert

France. Auvergne.
Soft-ripened blue-veined cow's milk cheese, with a dry, mould rind.

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Sheep and Goats

Braised shoulder of lamb

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Cold starters

Melon

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted milk fed lamb

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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