Mole sauce or at Christmas with "romeritos" over shrimp cakes. The sauce is also served with chicken, pork, or other meats. Another time when the sauce is prominent is Cinco de Mayo. While this holiday is not celebrated much in the rest of Mexico, it is a major celebration in Puebla. The state of Oaxaca is large and very mountainous with various indigenous ethnicities and microclimates, making for a number of regional variations in the food. The state is called "the land of the seven moles", with these being named "mole negro, colorado, amarillo, verde, chichilo, coloradito", and "mancha manteles" (or tablecloth
Sauce vierge Michel Guérard, a French chef, author, one of the founders of "nouvelle cuisine", and the inventor of "cuisine minceur", from Eugénie-les-Bains, Aquitaine, in south-western France; the sauce has since become a modern classic. In its original form, the sauce was intended as a Mediterranean preparation and contained a lot of garlic. It was served either hot or cold after infusing the herbs in the oil. Sauce vierge Sauce vierge (French; in English: literally, "virgin sauce") is a French sauce made from olive oil, lemon juice, chopped tomato and chopped basil. Frequently, crushed coriander seed is added, and variations may include