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Meal families

Main meals

Tuna sushi

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

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Cheeses

Mignot

France. Normandy. Orne. Vimoutiers.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a natural rind.

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Beef

Boeuf à la mode

Meat slowly cooked in a pot over low heat with white wine, carrots, onion, and broth flavored with herbes de Provence.

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Poultry

Bresse chicken with morels and vin jaune sauce

Vin jaune sauce : sauce with cream, shallot, and Vin jaune.

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Cheeses

Bonchester

United Kingdom. Scotland.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Cheeses

Saint-Félicien

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Drôme. Isère. Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Hautes-Alpes. Dauphiné.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.

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Pork

Stuffed pig’s trotter

Prefer a pairing based on the stuffing.

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Sauces

Devil sauce

Devil sauce : shallot and vinegar reduction with veal stock and espagnole sauce, simmered and reduced by half with tomato.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster Thermidor

Lobster meat combined with a béchamel sauce and Cognac, shallots, fish stock, and mustard, then served in its shell and often gratinated.

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Poultry

Guinea fowl salmis

Salmis : game or poultry carcass reduction in spiced wine sauce.

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Game birds

Roast young partridge with porcini mushrooms

Young Partridge : under 8 months old.

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Others

Lamb and beef pita

Pita : soft, round flatbread used to scoop up food or to make sandwiches.
Also refers to the baked pastry (or turnover) filled with food.
Sandwich made with minced meat (lamb, beef), hummus, vegetables (eggplant, cucumber, onion, tomato, etc.) and condiments (coriander, crème fraîche, cumin, lemon juice, harissa, coconut milk, mint, etc.).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Fennel

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Cooked meats

Woodstock pâté

Served cold or at room temperature.

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Poultry

Phat kaphrao kai

Thailand.
Stir-fried sliced chicken with basil and chili.

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