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Meal families

Beef

Lucullus tongue

Mille-feuille with slices of smoked beef tongue and duck foie gras.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Shakshouka

Shakshouka : poached eggs in a sauce with onions, peppers and tomatoes, usually seasoned with cumin, paprika and harissa.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Vegetable curry

Base : eggplant, zucchini, potato ...

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Cheeses

Parmigiano Reggiano stravecchio

Italy. Emilia Romagna and Lombardy south.
Semi-soft cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 36 months.

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Pork

Moo shu pork

Northern China.
Sliced or shredded pork chop meat mixed with scrambled eggs, wheat noodles, onions and possibly thinly sliced wood ear mushrooms (black fungus), sliced bamboo shoots seasoned with peanut oil.

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Salads

Piedmontese potato salad

Salad with pickles, ham, egg, potatoes, tomatoes mixed with mayonnaise.

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Warm starters

Seafood vol-au-vent

Vol-au-vent : hollow case for several people (diameter of at least 15 centimeters) of puff pastry with meat, sweetbreads, fish, crustaceans, snails, mushrooms mixed in a sauce (bisque, béchamel sauce with cream, Nantua sauce…).

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Freshwater fish

Pike quenelles with sauce homardine

Sauce homardine : Lobster bisque with cream.

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Desserts

Exotic fruit pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Cold starters

Vitello tonnato

Piedmontese speciality. Cold dish of thinly sliced veal with tuna accompanied by lemon mayonnaise, capers and anchovies.

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Cheeses

Baked mozzarella

Mozarella : speciality of Campania made with buffalo milk by the pasta filata method.

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Sea fish

Pickled herring

Herring marinated in vinegar with carrot, lemon, bay leaf, onion, mustard and sometimes served with fresh cream.

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Others

Smoked meat

Canada. Quebec. Montreal.
Sandwich made with rye bread, sweet mustard and thin slices of stacked smoked beef.

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