download Modern Sauces: More than 150 Recipes for Every Cook, Every Day by Martha Holmberg. Photographs by Ellen Silverman. English | 522 Pages

Description of Modern Sauces

This is the book for cooks who want to take their cooking to a whole new level. Martha Holmberg was trained at La Varenne and is an award-winning food writer.

Her look at this sometimes-intimidating genre—expressed in clear, short bites of information and through dozens of process photographs—delivers the skill of great sauce-making to every kind of cook, from beginners to those more accomplished who wish to expand their repertoire.

More than 100 recipes for sauces range from standards such as béarnaise, hollandaise, and marinara to modern riffs such as maple-rum sabayon, caramelized onion coulis, and coconut-curry spiked chocolate sauce.

An additional 55 recipes use the sauces to their greatest advantage, beautifying pasta, complementing meat or fish, or elevating a cake to brilliant. Modern Sauces is both an inspiration and a timeless reference on kitchen technique.

Each chapter includes recipes that share a main ingredient, a key technique, or both. For example, all of the vinaigrettes in chapter two share the same method and most of the same ingredients, while the chocolate sauces in chapter fifteen use many different methods but all are made with

chocolate or cocoa powder.

The structure is loosely based on the French system of mother sauces, in which you have master sauces with lots of variations. Indeed, some of my sauce types are classic French mother sauces—hollandaise, mayonnaise, beurre blanc—and it include a béchamel and a velouté in the chapter on cream sauces.

We also included several dozen recipes for dishes that showcase the sauces, perhaps in ways that are new to you or that will inspire you to go beyond the obvious.

Of course, a vinaigrette is delicious on salad greens, but it’s also lovely on fish, meat, or fruit. We want cooks to be able to make their sauces and then to “deploy” them in inventive and satisfying ways.