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Meal families

Cheeses

Port Salut

France. Pays de la Loire. Mayenne.
Commercial semi-hard cow's milk pasteurized cheese pressed uncooked.

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Sauces

Maitre d’hotel butter

Softened butter mixed with shallot and parsley.

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Cheeses

Cabécou de Livernon

France. Quercy.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with white wine sauce

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Pork

Salt pork

Salt-cured pork.

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Poultry

Roast duck with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Desserts

Strawberry pierogi

Poland.
Pierogi : Pasta stuffed and cooked in boiling water.
Stuffed with sour cream, sugar and strawberry.
Served hot or cold.

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Poultry

Braised squab

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Salads

Salade périgourdine

Mixed salad with croutons, candied or dried gizzards, duck breast, walnuts, lettuce and tomatoes.

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Appetizers

Cheese breadsticks

Sticks of crisp and dry bread.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Salpicon of seafood

Salpicon : preparation hot or cold of ingredients diced and bound by a cream or sauce.

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Others

Provencal style snails

Snails with Aioli sauce or tomato sauce.

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Cheeses

Truffe du Périgord

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Périgord. Dordogne.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and black rind.
Ripening : 2 weeks.

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Eggs

Scotch eggs

United Kingdom.
Shelled hard-boiled egg wrapped with minced meat sausage coated in breadcrumbs and then baked or fried.

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Cheeses

Appenzeller Extra

Switzerland. Appenzellerland.
Hard, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 6 to 8 months.
Black label.

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Beef

Grilled rib steak and grenailles potatoes

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.
Grenailles: small potatoes (diameter between 18 and 35 millimeters).

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