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Meal families

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tagliatelle with smoked salmon

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Sea fish

Salmon carpaccio with lime

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

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Shellfish and Seafood

Crab claws with mayonnaise

Mayonnaise : oil emulsion with egg yolk, mustard and pepper, sometimes with a dash of lemon juice or vinegar.

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Desserts

Peach miror cake

Miror cake : mousse set on a sponge base topped with a glaze.

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Cheeses

Venus

United States. Washington.
Semi-hard cheese from raw goat's and cow’s milk with a yellowish-golden rind washed with cider.
Ripening : 10 to 12 months.

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Cheeses

Hermelín

Czech Republic.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Cheeses

Castelmagno

Italy. Cuneo. Castelmagno, Pradleves and Monterosso Grana.
Semi-hard raw whole cow's milk cheese with a washed rind, sometimes some milk from ewe or goat may be added to the cow's milk.
Ripening : 2 to 5 months.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Spiny lobster a la nage

Nage : baking in a broth flavoured with butter, white wine, vegetables and herbs.

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Desserts

Red velvet cake

United States.
Chocolate layer cake covered with ermine icing, cream cheese frosting or buttercream frosting.
Traditionally served at Christmas or Valentine's Day.

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Cheeses

Old Mimolette

France. Nord Pas de Calais. Semi-hard cow's milk cheese annatto colored.
Ripening : 12 to 18 months.

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Cheeses

Tomme crayeuse

France. Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Haute-Savoie. Annecy.
Semi-soft-ripened cow's pasteurized milk cheese with mould on the rind.
Ripening : 2 months minimum.

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