Basically, a sauce is defined as a flavored liquid intended to accompany a food enhancing its flavor. Italians have developed their list of culinary sauces to accompany everything from pasta to chicken.  Here is a list:

• Alfredo: It is a rich with heavy cream, butter, freshly grated Parmesan cheese and freshly ground black pepper, this sauce is best known as a topping for fettuccine.
• Arrabbiata:  Italian for “angry” , this zesty tomato based sauce gets it’s hear from chilis and pancetta, a spicy ,salty Italian bacon.
• Bologne:  this robust meat sauce is also known as ragu.  Hearty with ground beef or pork, pancetta, tomatoes, onions , garlic, carrots and celery.  The sauce is enhanced with a bit of wine, cream and seasoning.
• Carbonara:  Made with eggs, cream, Parmesan and bits of bacon.  This sauce is sometimes dotted with fresh green peas before it is poured over hot pasta.

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This is my new article that will continue to grow with your help.  I have in the past found fun food facts that are great for trivia or just entertainment. I will begin the list and ask you to keep commenting me new facts to keep the list growing and growing:

• In a survey conducted in 1951 of the U.S. Armed Services banana cream pie was the favorite dessert.  Rice pudding was the least liked.
• Fig Newton’s were created in 1891 by the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts.  They had named many of their other cookies for nearby towns and almost called it the “Fig Shrewsbury” before Newton won out.
• When KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) first translated its advertising slogan “finger lickin’ good” into Chinese, ti came out as “eat your fingers off”.
• According to The Great Food Almanac by Irena Chalmers, the last food that Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.
• Approximately 40 million pounds (nearly 90 percent) of the nation’s lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine.

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