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Meal families

Warm starters

Vol-au-vent financiere

Vol-au-vent : hollow case for several people (diameter of at least 15 centimeters) of puff pastry with meat, sweetbreads, fish, crustaceans, snails, mushrooms mixed in a sauce (bisque, béchamel sauce with cream, Nantua sauce…).
Financiere sauce : Demi-glace (reduced sauce made from a brown stock, usually veal and sometimes beef) with the addition of Madeira and truffle essence.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Cooked meats

Lomo embuchado

Spain.
Lomo : sausage of pork loin marinated and refined several months.
Eaten raw and cut into very thin slices.

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Cooked meats

Trush pâté

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Cheeses

Livarot

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripenedcow's milk cheese, square-shaped with a washed rind, orange color.

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