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Meal families

Beef

Tournedos Rossini

Rossini : small round steak, cut into medallions (several centimeters thick), placed on a slice of bread baked with butter, topped with thin slice of foie gras and three slices of truffle.
The sauce is prepared with the cooking juices deglazed with Madeira and added with grated truffle.

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Cheeses

Vermont Herdsman

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard cheese from cow's raw whole milk cheese with a washed straw rind.
Ripening : 12 months minimum.

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Desserts

Baklava

Speciality of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece, North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey…
Dessert made of many layers of filo pastry dough separated with melted butter, or oiled dough layered in which there's a mixture of dried fruit (hazelnuts, walnuts or pistachios), sometimes spices (cloves) finely ground and crushed, which is then dipped in a sweet liquid (lemon and sugar water, orange blossom, honey, rose ...).

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Main meals

Seafood 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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Cheeses

Montasio

Italy. Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese with brushed rind (Fresco: matured up to 2 months; Mezzano from 5-10 months; Stagionata more than 10 months).

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Cheeses

Roncal

Spain. Navarre.
Hard raw ewe's milk smoked cheese in uncooked pressed with a colour ivory white or pale yellow and a blue-grey natural rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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