Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce

'Wooster Sauce', a name familiar, I should think, to any who work in a food or drink environment, be they cook, chef or bartender. But then again they might be more familiar with its proper name Worcestershire Sauce or its even more proper name, Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. Who are these household names, Lea and Perrins? Lea was born John Wheeley Lea in 1791. He was born into a family comprising three sons and four daughters, who were all raised in a farming family. Now you may think that this last bit of information is irrelevant until I tell you of Perrins. In 1793 William Henry Perrins was born. He too was born into a family of three sons and ...

Ever since that ill fated day in Home-Ecomics class, when I suffered the disappointment of seeing my first apple crumble slide across the linoleum floor in the aftermath of managing to drop my Mum's best Pyrex, I have been something of a reluctant chef. However, despite the intervening years being peppered with more culinary mishaps, I have now acquired a few weapons in my cookery repetoire that would do Fanny Craddock proud. Worcestershire Sauce is my particular favourite. A bizarre mix of things that you usually find past their sell-by-date in the back of the cupboard in most households, it has become one of the nation's favourite special ...

The Secret Sexy Sauce I vividly remember by school days, when I was in my early teens, everytime I used to buy a packet of “ready salted” crisps, there was always something that had to be sprinkled all over them before I began to devour them. That something was Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. Lea & Perrins has been around for ages and is the sauce that has literally put Worcestershire on the map worldwide. It was first commercially produced way back in 1837 and was invented by two close friends called John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins. What makes Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce so different from others ...