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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with morel cream sauce

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

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Main meals

Jambalaya a la provençale

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Poultry and saffron rice preparation.

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Cold starters

Chicken meatloaf stuffed with crayfish

Ballotine : piece of meat, game, fish, or poultry that is deboned, rolled, stuffed, and tied, cooked in a casserole or set in jelly.

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Poultry

Spatchcock squab

Spatchcock : bird prepared for grilling or roasting by removing the backbone and sternum and flattening it out before cooking.

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Appetizers

American-style pigs in a blanket

Sausage wrapped in puff pastry.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Scallops cassolette with black truffle

Cassolette : individual container for presenting a dish.

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Cold starters

Fish and vegetable pâté

Served cold.

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Cheeses

Alpha Tolman

United States. Vermont.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from raw cow's milk with a washed rind.
Ripening : 8 to 11 months.

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Cold starters

Blinis with taramasalata

Greece. Turkey.
Taramasalata : delicacy made from fish roe (cod or mullet), blended with olive oil, crème fraîche, and lemon.
In France, it is typically served with blinis.

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Cheeses

Sofia

United States. Indiana.
Soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized goat’s milk with a natural rind coated in edible vegetable ash, and containing two additional layers of ash cutting the cheese.
Ripening : 1 week.

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Cheeses

Capri lézéen

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Soft-ripened cheese made from raw goat's milk with natural rind placed on a chestnut leaf.
Ripening : 1 to 2 weeks.

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Cheeses

Fribourg

Switzerland. Fribourg.
Pressed and cooked cheese made from whole raw cow’s milk.
Ripening : 5 months minimum.

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Cheeses

Saint-Jorge Picante

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : 9 months.

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Desserts

Poirat du Berry

France. Centre-Val de Loire. Cher. Indre. Berry.
Pear pie lightly scented with spices (innamon, clove, pepper).

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Rabbit

Rabbit fricassee

Fricassée : stews of shellfish, vegetables, fish, pork or poultry in a white sauce.

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Game birds

Roast quail with black truffle juice

Truffle juice : juice obtained during the sterilization of the truffle.

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