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Meal families

Cheeses

Saint-Jorge Patrão

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with natural rind.
Ripening : 16 months.

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Main meals

Chicken gumbo

United States. Louisiana.
Gumbo : vegetable stew (celery, onion, pepper) with a thick and very fragrant broth to which seafood (usually crab, shrimp or lobster) or meat (quail, duck, chicken and smoked meat : andouille, ham, sausage) is added at the end of cooking.
Usually served with rice.

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Sauces

Salmi sauce

Salmi sauce : Reduction of game or poultry carcasses in a spicy wine sauce.

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Cooked meats

Small chitterling sausage with red wine

Sausage cooked with red wine and deglazed with cream.

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Sea fish

Provencal style shad

Provencal : with sautéed tomato in olive oil with bread, garlic, onion and parsley.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Beef cannelloni

Ground beef or pork hash.

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Desserts

Financier

Rectangular cake made from butter, ground almonds and egg whites.

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Beef

Rib steak cooked over vine shoots

Rib steak : rib of beef with bone attached.

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Pork

Currywurst

Germany. Berlin.
Pork sausage cut into slices and seasoned with curry ketchup.
Served with bread rolls (Brötchen) or with french fries.

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Game animals

Haunch of venison with huntsman sauce

Haunch : leg.
Huntsman sauce : pepper sauce with blood from the meat, cream and red currant jelly.

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Cooked meats

Hare pâté with mushroom

Paté made with coarsely chopped ingredients like pork and flavored with herbs, spices... cooked in a terracotta container.
Serve cold or at room temperature.

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Cheeses

Weisslacker

Germany. Baviera. United States. Wisconsin.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a washed rind.
Ripening : 7 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Sauerkraut

Sauerkraut : cabbage, finely chopped and fermented in brine.

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Sea fish

Sole bonne femme

Bonne femme sauce : butter, button mushrooms, cream, shallot, parsley and white wine.

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