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Meal families

Sea fish

Wing with beurre noisette

Beurre noisette (brown butter) : butter cooked until it reaches a light brown color and a nutty aroma, then strained into a cold container to stop the cooking.

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Desserts

Rice Condé

Rice pudding with a sugar-egg mixture added at the end of cooking.

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Sea fish

Sea bass supreme with beurre blanc sauce

Fish suprême : boneless fillet.
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Cheeses

Caillebotte

France. Brittany. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Pyrénées-Atlantique. Basque Country. Poitou-Charentes. Pays de la Loire.
Cow's milk curdled with rennet.

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Main meals

Baked Mont d’or

Baked Vacherin Mont-d'Or cheese.

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Desserts

Queen of Sheba cake

Chocolate and almond cake.

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Desserts

Fontainebleau with raspberries

Fontainebleau : dessert made with fresh cow's milk cheese and whipped cream.

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Desserts

Napoléon cake

Russia.
Variety of mille-feuille.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with smoked salmon

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Desserts

Crémets d’Anjou

Egg white beaten with whipped cream and red berries.

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Offal and tripe

Grilled merguez

Merguez : sausage made from minced meat (beef and/or mutton) with seasonings (garlic, caraway, coriander, cumin, paprika, chili…).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Grilled zucchini

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Eggplant caviar

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Cheeses

Smoked Gubbeen

Ireland. Cork.
Oak smoked soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a washed rind then wrapped in black wax.

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Cheeses

Saint-Honoré

Canada. Quebec.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Cockles and persillade sauce

Persillade sauce : blend of chopped parsley and garlic mixed with breadcrumbs and/or olive oil and vinegar.

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Pork

Saucisse de Morteau

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Doubs. Haut-Doubs.
Smoked sausage.

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