The main American sauces

The main American sauces

  Ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and BBQ sauce, sauces that have to be in a barbecue party, but where does this sauces come from?

  Let’s start by the first one, one of the most famous sauces around the world. Where does it comes from? So, it is believed that the origins of this all-american are actually chinese, said by the National Geographic. Their actual name remembers to the chinese word, and sauce, kê-tsiap, a sauce based in fermented fish, but that eventually became this sour and sweet tomato-based sauce that almost everyone loves.

  Let’s go now for the yellow color, the mustard. According to the website Eats, the origin of the mustard as a condiment traces as back as the early Romans, which mix it with wine until converted into a paste, not much different that the one right now.

 We can´t forget about a sauce that he use for almost all, the mayonnaise. The origins of this sauce are really lost. The history of this condiment goes as back as the 1756, when the duke of Richelieu conquestered the spanish island of Minorca, in where the native people made this sauce based on eggs and oil.