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The Five Sauces Every Home Cook Should Know

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Behind every good culinary tradition is a great sauce: simple in ingredient makeup, but so precise, they often require patience and practice to master. While French chef Marie Antoine-Carême is recognized as the first to identify four sauces as the foundation of culinary basics, it is French chef Auguste Escoffier who added hollandaise, the final sauce, to what became known as the “five mother sauces” when he published them in recipe form in his Le Guide Culinaire in 1903.