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Meal families

Sea fish

Sole with mousseline sauce

Mousseline sauce : hollandaise sauce with whipped cream.

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Main meals

Tablier de sapeur

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhone. Lyon.
Gras-double (tripe cooked with onions) cooked in broth and marinated in white wine before being cut into a triangle and then breaded and fried.
Usually served with steamed potatoes and mayonnaise, gribiche sauce or tartar sauce.

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Main meals

Lamb couscous

Pair according to the hotness of the harissa spice.

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Sea fish

Bourride

France. Languedoc. Provence.
Fish stew based on stewed white fishes (monkfish, sea bass, mackerel, mullet) with a brunoise of vegetables (carrots, celery, onions, leeks ...) with aioli or mayonnaise with olive accompanied by croutons rubbed with garlic oil.

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Desserts

Fruit blancmange

Blanc-manger : milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, potato flour or cornflour.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Baked endive with ham

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetable tian

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Cheeses

Mt Tam

United States. California.
Triple cream cow's milk cheese, soft-ripened with white mould rind.

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Veal

Roast milk-fed veal

Milk-fed veal : calf of less than 20 weeks milk-fed only.

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Freshwater fish

Trout au bleu with hollandaise sauce

Blue: cooked in court-bouillon and vinegar.
Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Appetizers

Tapas

Canapés.

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Desserts

Pièce montée

Traditional dessert served during a communion, a wedding or a festive meal. It usually has an architectural form and significant ornamentation.

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Cheeses

Quicke’s traditional cheddar

United Kingdom. Devon.
Hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese with hard pressed paste and a natural rind coated with lard and wrapped in muslin cloth.
Ripening : 12 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle

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Main meals

Inarizushi

Fried tofu stuffed with rice, sweetened and vinegared.

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