Sauces are a cornerstone of good cooking. A properly made sauce, whether savory or sweet, can elevate well-prepared ingredients from ordinary to extraordinary. And once you know the fundamentals of making a particular sauce, you can begin varying it with different kinds of ingredients and seasonings to make all kinds of delicious things. That holds true, too, for how great dressings can transform salads. After all, what we call vinaigrette in English comes from the French term sauce vinaigrette, literally a little vinegar sauce. A salads dressing really is its sauce, moistening and flavoring it while harmonizing all the other ingredients. So I sometimes wonder why so many people rely on...
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