Sauce Robert Sauce Robert Sauce Robert is a brown mustard sauce and one of the "small sauces", or compound sauces, derived from the Classic French demi-glace, which in turn is derived from Espagnole sauce, one of the five mother sauces in French cuisine (Bechamel, Veloute, Espagnole, Sauce Tomate and Hollandaise) . Sauce Robert is made from chopped onions cooked in butter without color, a reduction of white wine, pepper, an addition of demi-glace and is finished with mustard. It is best suited to pork, especially grilled pork, and meats. Sauce Robert is one of the earliest compound sauces on record. Of the
French cuisine appearance of the nouvelle cuisine. The term "nouvelle cuisine" has been used many times in the history of French cuisine which emphasized the freshness, lightness and clarity of flavor and inspired by new movements in world cuisine. In the 1740s, Menon first used the term, but the cooking of Vincent La Chapelle and François Marin was also considered modern. In the 1960s, Henri Gault and Christian Millau revived it to describe the cooking of Paul Bocuse, Jean and Pierre Troisgros, Michel Guérard, Roger Vergé and Raymond Oliver. These chefs were working toward rebelling against the "orthodoxy" of Escoffier's cuisine. Some