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Meal families

Main meals

Tablier de sapeur with tartar sauce

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Rhone. Lyon.
Tartar sauce : mayonnaise with capers, chives, pickles and chopped parsley.
Usually served with steamed potatoes.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster gratin cassolette

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Desserts

Strawberry charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with biscuits, sponge cake or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

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Sheep and Goats

Méchoui

Sheep or whole lamb roasted on a spit and cooked slowly.

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Game birds

Salmi of woodstock

Salmi : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallop boudin

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Desserts

Savarin with whipped cream

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.
Chantilly cream : whipped cream with sugar.

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Main meals

Scallop sushi

Sushi : cooked vinegared rice combined with other ingredients : seafood, vegetables and sometimes tropical fruits.

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Desserts

Tarte Tatin

Upside-down tart in which the apples are caramelized in butter and sugar.

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Cheeses

Fresh Écume De Wimereux

France. Hauts-de-France. Pas de Calais.
Soft-ripened raw double cream cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Potato gratin with mushrooms

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Sea fish

Curled fried whiting

Fried whiting with mayonnaise made with a hard boiled egg.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sautéed porcini and black truffle

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Others

Crab rolls

Canada. Quebec.
Hot dog-style bun filled with salad and mayonnaise sauce.

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Cheeses

Vacherin Mont-d’or

Switzerland. Vaud.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.

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Cheeses

Anabasque

United States. Wisconsin.
Semi-soft pasteurized sheep's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 3 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Bay blue

United States. California.
Pasteurized cow's milk blue cheese.
Ripening : 3 months.

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