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Meal families

Appetizers

Gougères

France. Burgundy.
Speciality, small pastry puffs with cheese.

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Cheeses

Robiola di Roccaverano

Italy. Lombardy. Piedmont.
Soft-ripened cheese from unpasteurised goat's, sheep's and/or cow’s milk with a natural rind.

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Desserts

Trianon

Almond cake covered with a crunchy praline and chocolate mousse.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Gorgonzola quiche

Quiche : pastry covered with eggs and cream mixed with seafood, vegetables, meat and/or cheese.
Served cold or hot.

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Cooked meats

Young partridge terrine

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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Beef

Beef fillet with peppercorn sauce

Peppercorn sauce : melted butter with shallots drizzled with Cognac, added with crushed pepper, reduced veal stock and cream.

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Cheeses

Idyll gris

United States. Michigan.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 12 to 21 days.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Oyster mushroom

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Sea fish

Baked sea bream in salt crust with hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce : vinegar reduction with shallots, mixed with egg yolk and melted butter.

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Desserts

Kouign amann

France. Brittany. Douarnenez.
Crispy cake made with bread dough containing butter and sugar folded in layers, like puff pastry but with fewer layers.
Eat hot or warm.

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Freshwater fish

Artic char in a beurre blanc sauce

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

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Desserts

Napoléon cake

Cake of Russian origin. Variety of mille-feuille.

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