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Meal families

Cheeses

Holey cow

United States. California.
Soft-ripened pasteurized raw cow's milk cheese with a natural rind.
Ripening : at least 2 months.

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Langoustines risotto with saffron

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

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Desserts

Chocolate marquise

Iced chocolate dessert.

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Cheeses

Pecorino Toscano stagionato

Italy. Tuscany.
Semi-hard cheese with sheep’s milk semi-cooked and pressed with a natural straw rind.
Ripening : 4 months minimum.

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Sheep and Goats

Rost knuckle of lamb

Knuckle of lamb : meat joint from below the knee.

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Poultry

Duck with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : fresh cream and veal stock (or poultry stock) with the addition of diced black truffles and shallots.

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Desserts

Pineapple trifle

Trifle : dessert made with fruit and sponge cake covered with fruit juice (or alcohol), sometimes jam, custard and whipped cream arranged in layers.

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Cheeses

Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage

France. Rhône-Alpes. Dauphiné.
Blue-veined cow's milk cheese.

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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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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Squid ink risotto

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

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Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Saint george mushroom

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Cheeses

Coulommiers

France. Île-de-France. Seine-et-Marne. Meaux. Coulommiers.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with mould on the rind.

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Freshwater fish

Pike-perch quenelles with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : reduction of shallots with white wine and vinegar blended with a whipped butter.

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Salads

Mesclun with goat cheese

Mesclun : salad with a mixture of at least 5 varieties of shoots or leaves of chicory, oak lettuce, lamb's lettuce, dandelion, purslane, baby spinach, arugula, escarole, radicchio and aromatic plants.

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Sauces

Pistou

France. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
Sauce made from crushed basil, garlic and olive oil.

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