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Meal families

Ice cream and sorbets

Red fruit sorbet

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Veal

Veal chop Foyot

Foyot : white wine and veal stock reduced with shallots and butter.

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Desserts

Peach shortcake

United Kingdom.
Shortcake : sweet cake covered with a layer of fruit, juice and whipped cream.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Acadian tourtière

Canada. Quebec.
Pie made with pork meat (50% minimum) cut into cubes and flavored with: cinnamon, cloves.
The meat can be accompanied by other meats (beef, turkey, game, etc.), celery, bacon, onion, potatoes, etc.

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Desserts

Cofee merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Cheeses

Sunset bay

United States. Oregon.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 3 weeks.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch fillets with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce: white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter and court-bouillon.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Alsatian tart

Onion tart with diced bacon, cream and caraway seeds.

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Cheeses

La Bouille

France. Upper Normandy. Seine-Maritime. La Bouille.
Soft-ripened double cream cow's milk cheese with rind.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Mashed potato

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Cold starters

Pike mousse with Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Poultry

Cold fried chicken with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : oil emulsion with egg yolk, mustard and pepper, sometimes with a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Poultry

Chicken supreme with morels and vin jaune sauce

Supreme : boneless chicken breast with the flesh from the wings.
Vin jaune sauce : cream sauce with vin jaune (Jura wine) and shallot.

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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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Desserts

Mont-blanc

Meringue cake covered in whipped cream and topped with chestnut cream dusted with icing sugar.

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Others

Chicken gyros

Gyros: greek sandwich, derived from the döner kebab, with meat, onion, tomato and tzatziki sauce on pita bread.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Morels cassolette with fresh cream

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Shellfish

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