Highflying Sauces
Sauce products are flying off store shelves as consumers look for inexpensive ways to enhance recipes. Product developers and chefs continue to formulate new sauces with ethnic/regional and bold flavors as well as varieties that help consumers meet certain dietary needs.
Sauces are the culinary workhorse of the food world. They add color, a concentrated burst of complementary or contrasting flavor, and texture to everything from salads and pasta to meat and fish. Savory or sweet, hot or cold, thin or thick, a topping or a mix-in, sauces have crossed cultural borders and are part of virtually all major cuisines. Without sauces, spaghetti would be just a pile of wet noodles.
Sauce-like applications have been around for centuries, but it was between 1400 and 1700 th…
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