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Meal families

Sea fish

Roasted sea bass with gravy

Gravy : sauce made from natural cooking juices, thickened with wheat flour or cornstarch, seasoned with pepper, salt, and crème fraîche (for seafood and fish) or red wine (for meat).

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster with a lemon sauce

Lemon sauce : lemon, olive oil.

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Beef

Grisons dried beef

Switzerland. Graubünden.
Beef salted with spices and herbs then dried.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Marinated scallops in olive oil and lemon

Marinade : soaking foods in a seasoned, often acidic, liquid before cooking.

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Poultry

Duck a l’orange with mashed potatoes

A l'orange : sauce with orange juice, duck liver and orange liqueur.

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Beef

Rump steak with poivrade sauce

Poivrade sauce : mirepoix (carrot, onion, celery) with butter, bacon bits, aromatics (bay leaf, thyme), white wine, vinegar, with a veal or game stock and black peppercorns.

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Sheep and Goats

Lamb shank with spring vegetables

Spring vegetables : vegetables harvested before reaching full maturity.

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Cheeses

Dôme du Poitou cendré

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime. Deux-Sèvres.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese and bloomy rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Desserts

Chocolate ganache

A blend of fresh cream and chocolate.

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Others

Shashlik

Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan…
Meat skewers (leg of lamb, sometimes beef or pork), aged and marinated in a flavored vinaigrette.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Boulangere potatoes

Boulangere potatoes : potatoes baked in the oven with onions in broth.

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Offal and tripe

Lyon-style gras-double

Gras-double : tripe cooked with onions.

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Sauces

Black truffle butter

Black truffle butter : butter with black truffle and Cognac.

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Pork

Pork chop with charcutiere sauce

Charcutière sauce  : reduction of shallots, white wine and vinegar deglazed with demi-glace (a rich brown stock-based sauce), finished with mustard and julienned pickles.

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