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Meal families

Sea fish

Sea bass and white wine sauce with shallots and fennel

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Consommé and Soup

Gazpacho

Spain. Portugal.
Cold soup made from raw vegetables (cucumber, onion, pepper, tomato) mixed with water or ice cubes, seasoned with garlic, oil, salt and vinegar.

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Cheeses

Rush Creek Reserve

United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened raw cow's milk cheese with a washed rind wrapped in strips of spruce.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Poultry

Geline with cream and morels

Geline : chicken from Touraine.

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Poultry

Salmi of guinea fowl

Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Sheep and Goats

Roasted leg of lamb with rosemary

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Sea fish

Balik salmon

Swiss Balik Salmon.

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Desserts

Blancmange

Milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, potato flour or cornflour.

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Cheeses

Dôme du Poitou

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime. Deux-Sèvres.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and mould on the rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Crab tart

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Main meals

Jambalaya

United States. Louisiana. New Orleans.
A type of paella with seafood, fish or meat, made from rice and very spicy.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Apricot ice cream

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Sheep and Goats

Noisette of lamb with sweet spices

Noisette : small round piece of lean meat.
Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Red mullet risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Pork

Roast pork with orange

Orange sauce : orange juice with white wine (or poultry or veal stock) reduced.

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Cheeses

Cantal affiné

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Cantal.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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