Worcestershire sauce
Salsa Worcestershire
- Date
- 1837 · confidence medium
- Place
- Worcester, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Pharmacists Lea and Perrins prepared a fermented sauce so strong they discarded it in the cellar; 18 months later they found it mellowed by fermentation and ready to sell. It became a global condiment and, after losing trademark protection in 1876, a generic term with regional variants worldwide.
What it led to
- Generic condiment after losing trademark protection in 1876
- Regional variants in Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Thailand and China
Built on
- Roman garum and 17th-century English anchovy-based sauces