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Meal families

Shellfish and Seafood

Crayfish with cream sauce

Cream sauce : béchamel sauce with cream.

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Pork

Confit of marinated pork belly with sweet spices and olive oil

Sweet spices : cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, turmeric, nutmeg, saffron, vanilla… These are spices that bring a sweet and fragrant flavor.

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Cheeses

Tarentaise cheese

United States. Vermont.
Semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese and a washed rind.
Ripening : 9 months minimum.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Brasucade

France. Occitania. Languedoc-Roussillon.
Cooking mussels over a wood fire in a large frying pan before being sprinkled with a marinade.

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Pork

Stuffed pig’s trotter

Pair according to the stuffing.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with thyme juice

Leg of lamb : piece of meat formed the saddle over the thigh.
One thigh is called Chump.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Hearts of palm salad

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Cooked meats

Cold cut and salad buffet

Buffet : all the dishes of the meal are served on a table, the guests serve themselves.

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Desserts

Strawberry bagatelle

Bagatelle : sponge cake cut into pieces mixed with fruit, cream, sometimes jam.

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Cheeses

Capri lézéen

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Poitou-Charentes.
Soft-ripened raw goat's milk cheese with natural rind placed on a chestnut leaf.
Ripening : 1 to 2 weeks.

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Sheep and Goats

Milk fed lamb with garlic clove

Milk-fed lamb : lamb of 4–6 weeks old and weighing 5.5 to 8 kg.

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Cheeses

Saint-Marcellin

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

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Cheeses

Ashy goat cheese log

Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a natural rind coated in culinary vegetable ash.

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Cooked meats

Venison pâté

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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Appetizers

Onion breadsticks

Breadsticks : sticks of crisp and dry bread.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Prawns

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