# 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."