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Meal families

Cooked meats

Poultry liver pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Main meals

Tablier de sapeur with tartare sauce

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhône. Lyon.
Tartar sauce : mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles and chopped parsley.
Dish usually served with steamed potatoes.

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Main meals

Beef cheek and black truffle hachis parmentier

Hachis parmentier : Mashed potato combined with diced meat. French equivalent of cottage or shepherd's pie.

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Sea fish

Avruga caviar

Kipper (smoked herring) flesh colored with cuttlefish ink, shaped like fish roe (caviar alternative).

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Cheeses

Rebibes de L’Etivaz

Rebibes : cheese shavings.

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Cooked meats

Duck terrine with orange

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Cold starters

Vegetarian pâté

Served cold.

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Sheep and Goats

Grilled lamb chops with Pont-Neuf potatoes and spices

Pont-Neuf potatoes : rectangular potatoes cut like big french fries and fried in oil twice.

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Warm starters

White truffle raviole

Ravioles : stuffed pasta, smaller and thinner than traditional ravioli.

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Main meals

Alsatian style süriruawa

Süriruawa : turnips preserved in salt.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Spinach with a light white sauce

White sauce : flour and butter heated together, to which a hot liquid (stock, water, cooking juices, or wine) is added.

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Appetizers

Tomato bruschetta

Grilled bread rubbed with garlic, drizzled with olive oil and salt, served with tomato and basil.

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Salads

Lyonnaise salad

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhône. Lyon.
Salad made with bacon, a poached egg, toasted bread, and frisée or dandelion greens, served with a walnut oil and red wine vinegar vinaigrette.

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Game birds

Quail salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Desserts

Caramel pavlova

Pavlova : meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit.

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