Sauce

A sauce is liquid or sometimes semi-solid food served on or used in preparing other foods. Sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to another dish. Quotes Thai eyt it with full gud will That soucht na nother sals thar-till Bot appetyt. With full good will they all fell to, And sought no other sauce thereto Than appetite. John Barbour,The Brus (14th c.), Book 3, line 539 (tr. Archibald A. H. Douglas, The Bruce, 1964). MAYONNAISE, n.: One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911). SAUCE, n.: The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911). There are in England sixty different religions and only one sauce. Francesco Caracciolo (1752–1799), attributed in Hugh Percy Jones, Dictionary of Foreign Phrases (1922). Similar remarks are attributed to Voltaire (1694–1778) on various occasions. There's no sauce in the world like hunger. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part II (1615), Book 3, Ch. 5. Qu'a toz mangiers est sausse fains Bien destanpree et bien confite. For hunger is a sauce, well blended and prepared, for any food. Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion (ca. 1170), Line 2854. It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. Alistair Cooke, Talk About America (1968), Ch. 2. Though blood be the best sauce for victory, yet must it not be more than the meat. Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War (1639), Book I, Ch. 24. The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. Henry James, Theatricals: Second Series (1895). The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. P. J. O'Rourke, The Bachelor Home Companion (1986). I tell you Folks, all Politics is Apple Sauce. Will Rogers, The Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game". Epicurean cooks sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (ca. 1606)), Act II, Scene i. Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it. Nigel Slater, The Kitchen Diaries (2005). The English have only one sauce, melted butter. Voltaire, attributed as a remark to Adam Smith, in P. J. O'Rourke, On The Wealth of Nations (2007), p. 184. Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. E. B. White, The Elements of Style (1959), Ch. V: "An Approach to Style". Proverbs Sauce for a Goose, is Sauce for a Gander. 17th century proverb, as found in Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1694), Fable 302: "A Husband and Wife twice Married". Compare Francis Kirkman, The English Rogue: Continued, in the Life of Meriton Latroon (1668): "What was sauce for a Goose was sauce for a Gander." External links Sauce sauce Category:Food and drink