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Meal families

Cheeses

Parmigiano Reggiano stravecchio

Italy. Emilia Romagna and Lombardy south.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk.
Ripening : 36 months.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Baked oysters

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Consommé and Soup

Garbure

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Gascony.
Cab­bage soup with vegetables (broad beans, potatoes, turnip, green peas, onion, garlic, carrot, celeriac, etc) and typically meat pieces, often confit (duck, pork, goose giblets, pork shank, cured ham, sausage, etc).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle and Parmesan risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.

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Sea fish

Cod brandade with mashed potatoes

Brandade with mashed potatoes.

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Sea fish

Red mullet with sorrel sauce

Sorrel sauce : a white wine sauce with sorrel, shallots, butter, cream, and fish stock.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster a la nage with beurre blanc sauce

Nage : cooked in a delicate broth flavored with butter, white wine, vegetables, and aromatic herbs.
Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

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Poultry

Provençal chicken

Chicken served with pan-seared tomatoes with garlic and parsley, and bread.

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Sea fish

Lox

Salmon cut into fillets or a whole piece that has been cold-smoked or cured in brine.

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Cheeses

Valençay

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher. Indre. Berry.
Soft-ripened cheese made from goat's milk with a bloomy rind.

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Sea fish

Turbot with Champagne zabaione

Zabaione : egg yolks beaten with a liquid, alcoholic or non-alcoholic, in order to obtain a hot or warm foamy and flavored preparation.

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Cheeses

Curé nantais

France. Pays de la Loire. Loire-Atlantique.
Raw cow's milk cheese with pressed uncooked paste.

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Poultry

Chicken confit

Generally eaten hot.

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Sea fish

Halibut fillets with meunière sauce

Meunière sauce : cooking juices with butter, chopped parsley, and lemon juice.

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Cheeses

Mothais sur feuille

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with a natural rind.

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Cheeses

Kachkéis

Luxembourg.
Melted cheese made from skimmed cow's milk then curdled into processed cheese (heated with butter, water and salt)

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Cooked meats

Prisuttu

Aged for 12 to 18 months.

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