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Béarnaise sauce is a traditional sauce for steak, however I served it with asparagus among pork medallions. The sauce was likely first made by the chef Collinet, the inventor of puffed potatoes (pommes de terre soufflées) and served at the 1836 opening of “Le Pavillon Henri IV”, a restaurant at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, not far from Paris. Evidence for this is reinforced by the fact that the restaurant was named for King Henry IV, a gourmet himself, who was born in the former province (...)