Sauce Spoons

While they’ve been around since the nineteenth century, sauce spoons had fallen out of favor until the 1960s, when they became popular as an aspect of nouvelle cuisine. They allow the diner to sip the sauce without resorting to mopping it up with bread, which dulls the sauce’s flavor and adds unwanted bulk to the meal. Sauce spoons are oval shaped and are almost perfectly flat so that they can be easily slid against the bottom of the plate.