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The Mother Sauces (Entry 810.PS7825)

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In which a taxonomy of five simple French recipes are used to define haute cuisine for generations, and Ken wants noodles named for Drake. Certificate #48504.

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We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can

0:16.0

only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

0:21.3

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this

0:25.5

monumental reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

0:28.8

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

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So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

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this is our legacy to you. This is our time capsule. This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 810.

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P.S. 7825.

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Certificate number 48504, the Mother S sauces.

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2 or 3 tablespoon of a reduced tomato sauce, it becomes a sauce short.

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If you do it with the orange juice, it becomes a sauce maltase and so forth.

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You like sauce?

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Mm.

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It's one of my favorite things.

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It's one of my favorite things too.

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I had a friend of a friend who they worked together at some kind of tech place and he came

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into work one day.

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He was so excited because his wife had made dinner and she had made one of his favorite things which was

1:54.3

sauces. He was like I just love sauces. He had had food without sauces and he

2:00.4

had food with sauces. Huh?

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And the latter was better.

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It added savor to his life.

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