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Meal families

Cheeses

Comté

France. Franche-Comté.
Hard, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Pizza, Quiche, Tart and Pie

Seafood pizza

Pizza prepared with scampi, mussels or squid with tomato sauce.

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Beef

Beef axoa

Basque Country.
Stew with shredded beef, onions, tomatoes sauté and flavoured with red Espelette pepper.

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Cheeses

Villageois

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

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Beef

Maultaschen

Germany. Baden-Württemberg.
Pasta filled with meat and golden-fried before being poached in broth.
Served with a green salad.

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Veal

Rouelle of veal with cider

Rouelle : a thick slice of meat cut from the hind leg.

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Veal

Veal medallion with chanterelle

Medallion : piece of meat (3 to 4 cm) cut in small round pieces like tournedos from the loin.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Scallops risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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Consommé and Soup

Lamb chorba

Algeria.
Soup with chickpeas, lamb, vermicelli, spices and fresh herbs.

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Desserts

Redcurrant pavlova

Pavlova : meringue cake topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle carbonara

Carbonara : pasta dish from Lazio with eggs, cheese (Pecorino Romano or Parmigiano-Reggiano), bacon (guanciale or pancetta), black pepper and optionally cream.

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Cheeses

Rigotte de Condrieu

France. Rhône-Alpes. Loire.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese with natural rind annatto colored.

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Game animals

Venison huntsman sauce

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

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Cold starters

Zakuski

Russia.
Hors-d'œuvre served as starter to a meal (caviar, cold cuts, smoked or marinated fish, malossol, salads…).

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Seafood rice

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