All dishes:

Consommé and Soup

Asparagus velouté

Velouté  : soup enriched with fresh cream and egg yolk.

Desserts

Chocolate marble cake

Main meals

Souvlaki

Cyprus. Greece.
Small pieces of meat (lamb, beef, mutton, pork, chicken) cut into cubes and marinated in lemon juice and olive oil with vegetables, aromatics (oregano, thyme), herbs, pepper and salt, then grilled on a spit or on a skewer.
Served in a plate or on pita bread.

Beef

Sautéed rump steak and herbs butter

Sea fish

Sea bream in salt crust

Salt crust : a cooking method in which food (vegetables, fish, or meat) is entirely covered with coarse salt to ensure even cooking.

Cheeses

Charolais

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Produced in Allier, Loire, Rhone and Saone-et-Loire.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Chicken and porcini mushroom pie

Cheeses

Mothais sur feuille

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a natural rind.

Desserts

Tocino de cielo

Spain. Catalonia.
Dessert made with egg custard and caramel.

Game birds

Grilled wood pigeon à la goutte de sang with porcini

Cooked à la goutte de sang : quick sear over medium-high heat to brown the surface of the meat while keeping the inside pink.

Desserts

Poire Belle-Hélène

Poached pears in syrup, served with vanilla ice cream, melted chocolate, and crystallized violets.

Sheep and Goats

Lamb with mashed potato

Beef

Roasted rib steak with porcini mushrooms

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

Game animals

Haunch of venison with huntsman sauce

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

Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Pizza marinara

Italy. Naples.
Pizza with tomato, seasoned with garlic, olive oil, and oregano.

Cheeses

Sofia

United States. Indiana.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind coated in edible vegetable ash, and containing two additional layers of ash cutting the cheese.
Ripening : 1 week.

Shellfish and Seafood

Lentil and mussel cream soup

Poultry

Roast pigeon with duck foie gras

Beef

White grape beef stew

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

Main meals

Sushi

Vinegared cooked rice combined with other ingredients : seafood, vegetables, or sometimes tropical fruits.

Beef

Beef tenderloin with black truffles en croûte

Beef

Rib steak with potatoes and thyme

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

Pork

Pork filet mignon with peach

Shellfish and Seafood

Mussels with curry sauce

Curry sauce : velouté curry and cream.