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Meal families

Cheeses

Quadrello di Bufala

Italy. Lombardy.
Buffalo milk pasteurized cheese with a creamy paste and a washed-rind from pale pink to oatmeal colored.

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Main meals

Smoked sausage rougaille

Rougaille : very spicy paste or sauce composed of fruits or vegetables cut with crushed ginger, minced onions and chilli.
Served chilled with the Carry.

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Others

Caviar Naccari

Adriatic caviar. (Also available in Spain)

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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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Cheeses

Coutances

France. Normandy. Manche. Coutances.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with rind.

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Freshwater fish

Eel in green sauce

Flemish speciality : pieces of eel cooked in a mixture of finely chopped fresh herbs and served in a sauce of green herbs.

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Cheeses

Crumbly Lancashire

United Kingdom. Lancashire.
Semi-hard pasteurized cow's milk cheese.
Ripening : 6 to 8 weeks.

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Freshwater fish

Artic char with meuniere sauce

Meunière sauce : liquid from the cooking with butter, chopped parsley and lemon.

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Cheeses

Caprice des Dieux

France.
Soft-ripened pasteurized cow's milk cheese with rind.

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Main meals

Galette saucisse

France. Brittany.
Grilled pork sausage wrapped in a cold buckwheat galette.

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Cheeses

Palet de Bourgogne

France. Burgundy.
Soft cow's milk cheese with the rind dipped in Marc de Bourgogne.

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Main meals

Sea tartiflette

Dish made with cream, potatoes, cheese, seafood and fishes.

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Cooked meats

Rillons

France. Touraine.
Pork belly browned and confit in fat.

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Main meals

Eel matelote

Matelote : red wine reduction with fish stock and mushrooms.

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Ice cream and sorbets

Banana split

Ice cream-based dessert made with a banana cut in half lengthwise and three scoops of ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, strawberry in France, three scoops vanilla in Belgium) all of which are topped with hot chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

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