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Mike Olsen: The Mother Sauces

When thumbing through cookbooks and recipes you may run across the term “mother sauces”. This unusual term dates back to the early 1800s when French chef Antonin Careme broke down sauces into five categories, which he called the five mother sauces. These sauces provide the foundation for literally hundreds of different sauces, most of which [...]