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Meal families

Sea fish

Provencal hake

Provencal : crushed tomatoes, garlic and parsley cooked in olive oil.

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Shellfish and Seafood

Eclade

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Charente-Maritime.
Mussels cooked in a pine thorn fire.
Generally eaten with bread and butter.

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Desserts

Osterlammele

France. Alsace.
Sponge cake in the shape of lamb sprinkled with icing sugar.

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Sheep and Goats

Leg of lamb with juniper berries

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

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Main meals

Pike-perch matelote with pinot noir

Matelote : red wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Pistou pasta

Pistou : Provencal sauce of crushed basil, garlic and olive oil.

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Cold starters

Spiny lobster in aspic

Aspic : cold dish in which ingredients (vegetables, eggs, fish, fruit, poultry or meat) are set in jelly made from a meat stock or consommé.

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Offal and tripe

Braised veal sweetbreads with Perigourdine sauce

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand..
Perigourdine sauce : Périgueux sauce (white wine reduction with a blond roux and diced black truffles) with onion, shallots and foie gras.

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Appetizers

Gougères

France. Burgundy.
Speciality, small pastry puffs with cheese.

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Cheeses

Death & Taxes

United States. California.
Pasteurized cow's milk cheese with washed rind.

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Sauces

Devil sauce

Reduction of shallots and vinegar in equal parts, spicy, with veal stock and Spanish sauce simmered and reduced by half with tomato.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Tuna lasagne

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Desserts

Savarin with raspberry

Savarin : kind of rum baba without raisins.

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