Marie Rose sauce Marie Rose sauce Marie Rose sauce (known in some areas as cocktail sauce or seafood sauce) is a British condiment often made from a blend of tomatoes, mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice and black pepper. A simpler version can be made by merely mixing tomato ketchup with mayonnaise. The sauce, as well as cocktail sauce, were invented in the 1960s by British cook Fanny Cradock. It is often accompanied with seafood, and prawns in particular. In the United States, a similar sauce, fry sauce, is sometimes served with french fries. Another similar sauce called Thousand Island dressing is popular in
Béchamel sauce the sauce, and was brought to France by the chefs of Catherina de' Medici in 1533. Louis de Béchamel, Marquis de Nointel, was a financier who held the honorary post of chief steward to King Louis XIV. This sauce was prominent in Italian cooking texts of the Renaissance as "salsa colla", but was renamed much later in "Le Cuisinier François", published in 1651 by François Pierre La Varenne (1615–1678), "chef de cuisine" to Nicolas Chalon du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles. The foundation of French cuisine, the "Cuisinier François" ran through some thirty editions in seventy-five years. The sauce originally was a