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Meal families

Cooked meats

Mortadella

Italy. Emilia-Romagna. Lombardy.
Pork sausage made from pork, breadcrumbs, olives, pistachios and butter.

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Sauces

Caper sauce

White sauce with fresh cream and egg yolks seasoned with lemon juice and added with capers.

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Sea fish

Sole fillets with Dieppe sauce

Dieppe sauce : Normandy sauce (Bechamel with added cream) with mussel or oyster cooking juice.

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Veal

Braised veal tenderloin

Tenderloin : piece of meat cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.
Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..

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Cheeses

Bethmale de chèvre

France. Pyrenees. Ariège.
Semi-hard pasteurized goat's milk cheese de pasta prensada no cocida with a washed orange rind.
Ripening : 4 months.

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Game birds

Roasted young partridge with porcini

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Cheeses

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 : 2 to 3 weeks.

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Main meals

Tajine

Stew of vegetables, fish or meat.

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Sea fish

Roast sea bass 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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Cheeses

Beaufort

France. Savoie.
Hard, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.

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Sauces

Maltese sauce

Maltese Sauce : hollandaise sauce base flavored with the juice of blood oranges and garnished with blanched orange zest.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Croziflette

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Savoie.
Pasta gratin with fresh cream and reblochon.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with flageolets beans

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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