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Meal families

Ice cream and sorbets

Pear ice cream

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Cheeses

Kapiti Kikorangi

New Zealand. Taranaki.
Semi-soft blue-veined triple cream pasteurized cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind.
Ripening : 6 to 8 weeks.

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Veal

Veal Milanese

Milanesa : breadcrumbs with Parmesan cheese.

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Cheeses

Humboldt Fog

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized goat's milk cheese with a central line and a natural rind in culinary vegetable ash.
Ripening : 2 months.

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Cold starters

Salmon tataki

Tataki : raw fish or raw meat cut in thin slices and seared, then marinated in rice vinegar or mirin before being seasoned with a condiment (generally ginger).

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Cheeses

Abondance

France. Haute-Savoie. Abondance.
Hard raw cow's milk cheese.

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Beef

Braised oxtails in red wine sauce

Braise : to simmer and stew in a little flavored liquid, food that has been seared on all sides beforehand., food that has been seared on all sides beforehand.
Red wine sauce : sauce of veal stock and red wine mixed with butter, shallots, bay leaf, pepper and thyme.

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Desserts

Merveilleux

Belgium. France.
Cake in shape of a sphere or a medium-sphere made of two meringues welded with praline whipped cream and covered with caramelized almond and hazelnut slivers.

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Sea fish

Roasted sea bass 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

Inarizushi

Fried tofu stuffed with rice, sweetened and vinegared.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Black truffle risotto

Risotto : reduction of a broth cooked with rice and one or more ingredients.

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