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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish and Nantua sauce

Nantua sauce: fish velouté with tomato soup and crayfish butter.

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Cheeses

Boulette d’Avesnes

France. Pas-de-Calais. Avesnes.
Cow's milk cheese flavored with parsley, pepper, tarragon, and cloves and later shaped into a cone by hand.
Ripening : 3 months.

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Pork

Pork shoulder with diable sauce

France. Alsace.
Pork shoulder coated in a mustard sauce with garlic, shallot and parsley, wrapped in pig's caul fat.

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Pork

Parsley ham

Ham sliced in cubes cooked in a broth with white Burgundy wine with mustard and wine vinegar, jelly with parsley coated and flavored (with onion, shallot, thyme, bay leaves, garlic...).

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Cheeses

Cabécou de Livernon

France. Quercy.
Soft-ripened unpasteurized goat's milk cheese with a mouldy rind.

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Main meals

Reblochonnade

Reblochon grilled in the oven with cold cuts or diced bacon and potatoes.

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Desserts

Peach shortcake

United Kingdom.
Shortcake : sweet cake covered with a layer of fruit, juice and whipped cream.

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Cheeses

Queso de Mahón-Menorca artesano joven

Spain. Balearic Islands. Minorca.
Semi-hard cheese from raw cow's milk, brown in color.
Ripening : over 5 months.

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Pork

Rouelle of pork

Rouelle : a thick slice of meat cut from the hind leg.

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Main meals

Salt pork with lentils

Salt pork : salt-cured pork.

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Freshwater fish

Trout with white wine sauce

White wine sauce : sauce made with melted butter and shallots with a dry white wine.

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Veal

Veal chop with morel sauce

Morel sauce: chicken broth, fresh cream, shallots, mushrooms and white wine.

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Warm starters

Soufflé

Served hot.

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Veal

Veal escalope with Normandy sauce

Normandy sauce : Bechamel with added fresh cream.

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