Mayonnaise is the perfect accompaniment to prawns.

Corti's Kitchen Note: The Greatest Sauce of All Time

Severin Corti, 29.06.2022

The Spanish claim, with some justification, to have invented mayonnaise. The French don't like it, but it doesn't change their reputation for being behind the world's best sauce.

Egg yolks, lemon juice, vegetable oil: It is truly a miracle that a sauce of such divine flavour as mayonnaise is created from three such humble ingredients – and a testimony to the glory of culinary art, which is able to create works for eternity from almost nothing.

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Corti's Kitchen Note: The Greatest Sauce of All Time