Dip (food)

A dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor and/or texture to a food, such as pita bread, dumplings, crackers, cut-up raw vegetables, seafood, cubed pieces of meat and cheese, potato chips, tortilla chips, and falafel. Unlike other sauces, instead of applying the sauce to the food, the food is typically put, dipped, or added into the dipping sauce (hence the name). Dips are commonly used for finger foods, appetizers, and other easily held foods. Thick dips based on sour cream, creme fraiche, milk, yogurt, mayonnaise, soft cheese, or beans are a staple of American hors d'oeuvres and are thinner than spreads which can be thinned to make dips.[1] Alton Brown suggests that a dip is defined based on its ability to "maintain contact with its transport mechanism over three feet of white carpet".[2]

Dip is a very widespread food. Forms of dip are eaten all over the world.

Common dips

Some types of dip include:

References

  1. ^ Rombauer, Irma S.; Becker, Marion Rombauer & Becker, Ethan (1997) [1931]. The Joy of Cooking. Illustrated by Laura Hartman Maestro (Rev. ed.). New York: Scribner. pp. 145–146. ISBN 0684818701. 
  2. ^ "Dip Madness". Alton Brown (writer/director/host). Good Eats. Food Network. 2002-10-16. No. 9, season 6.
  3. ^ Hesser, Amanda (November 5, 2009). "Bagna Cauda, 1960". New York Times: p. MM20, New York edition. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/magazine/08food-t-000.html. Retrieved March 8, 2010. 
  4. ^ Snow, Jane (March 15, 2006), "Sushi: how to choose, order and eat it", The Island Packet: 3-C, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4V4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qa0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1314,3461707, retrieved July 6, 2010 
  5. ^ Virbila, S. Irene (October 01, 1989). "Fare of the country:Italy's Vin Santo: a sip of hospitality". New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/01/travel/fare-of-the-country-italy-s-vin-santo-a-sip-of-hospitality.html?src=pm. Retrieved September 12, 2011.