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Meal families

Desserts

Peach bavarois

Bavarois : cold moulded dessert made ​​with custard or fruit puree, mixed with whipped fresh cream and gelatine.

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Veal

Piccata milanese

Piccata: Italian cuisine. Thin slices of meat, usually chicken or beef, floured and browned, then sautéed in olive oil, served with a sauce obtained by deglazing the pan with white wine, mixed with lemon juice, butter, parsley and capers.

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Cheeses

Mâconnais

France. Burgundy. Saône-et-Loire. Mâconnais.
Raw unpasteurised goat's milk cheese.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Bay scallop with americaine sauce

Américaine Sauce : lobster coral mixed with chopped onions, cream, eggs, white wine, brandy, salt, cayenne pepper and softened butter.

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Sea fish

Roasted John Dory in a beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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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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Poultry

Fattened chicken with morel sauce

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

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Cheeses

Cantal affiné

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Cantal.
Semi-hard cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Poultry

Fattened chicken in demi-deuil

Demi-deuil : slices of truffle inserted between skin and flesh to infuse the aroma.

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Cheeses

Camembert

France. Normandy.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Poultry

Phat kaphrao kai

Thailand.
Stir-fried minced chicken with basil and chilli.

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Sea fish

Smoked salmon carpaccio

Carpaccio : very thin slices with a dash of lemon and olive oil.

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