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Meal families

Cured Meats

Game pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Cheeses

Cheese curds

Canada. United States.
Cheddar-type cow's milk cheese curds.

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Cold starters

Avocado with shrimp sauce

Shrimp sauce : fish velouté mixed with shrimp butter.

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Appetizers and Amuse-bouches

Parmesan breadsticks

Breadsticks : small, dry, and elongated breadsticks served as an appetizer.

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Main courses

Chicken tajine with prunes

Tajine : stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Cheeses

Brillat-Savarin

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Côte d'Or. Saône-et-Loire. Grand Est. Aube. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : minimum 5 days for small formats, 8 days for others.

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Cheeses

Beaufort chalet d’alpage

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Savoie.
Type of Beaufort d’été cheese produced from June 1st to October 31st at 1500 meters above sea level and with the milk of a single flock.
Ripening : 5 months minimum.

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Seafish

Blanquette of monkfish with saffron

Blanquette : stew of white meat or fish cooked in stock and thickened with egg yolk and cream.
Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.
Dish usually served with pasta, potatoes or rice, often completed with mushrooms.

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Cheeses

Cabécou de Livernon

France. Occitania. Lot. Tarn-et-Garonne. (Quercy).
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Thin apple tart

Thin tart : on puff pastry.

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Sheep and Goats

Potato crusted saddle of lamb

Saddle : unseparated loin (from rib to leg) from both sides of the animal.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Kirsch baba

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Consommés, Broths and Soups

Chicken chorba

Algeria.
Soup with chickpeas, chicken, vermicelli, spices and fresh herbs.

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Poultry

Roasted duck with sweet spices

Sweet spices : star anise, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor, a warm or aromatic complexity, sometimes slightly spicy, but never harsh, burning, or strong.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Pâté aux prunes

France. Pays de la Loire. Maine-et-Loire.
Pie made with shortcrust or puff pastry, filled with unpitted plums.

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Desserts and Sweet Courses

Apple cobbler

United Kingdom. United States.
Cobbler : a dessert consisting of a fruit filling poured into a baking dish and covered with a crust.
In the Southern United States, the cobbler has both a top and bottom crust.

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Furred game

Bordeaux style wild boar

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

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Cheeses

Romans

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Drôme. Romans-sur-Isère.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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