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Sauce

Columbia City, Indiana

Ohki Alley

One of the first soy sauce factories in America, and its storied proprietor, are honored here.

At Azucena Zapoteca, the mole chichilo is made with ingredients like chilhuacle chiles, burnt tortilla ash, and chochoyote dumplings.

rites and rituals

Oaxaca’s ‘Mystical’ Mole of Mourning

Smoky, bitter, and complex, mole chichilo is flavored by grief.

Sam O'Brien June 16, 2025

There are plenty of alternatives to the standard Heinz if you're willing to look for them.

The Surprising Origins and Alternatives to Tomato Ketchup

Ketchup is more of a category than a singular sauce.

Anne Ewbank January 27, 2025

13 Places for Feasting on Pasta, History, and Italian-Americana

Take a red sauce tour from a former speakeasy to the country's oldest Italian restaurant.

Sam Lin-Sommer November 18, 2022

Oaxacan Mole Blanco

The fairest and rarest of them all.

Video • Wonder From Home

Show & Tell: Inside a House of Hot Sauce With Vic Clinco

Pork belly with xanducata.

Morelia, Mexico

LU Cocina Michoacana

This upscale restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine serves sauces tied to important life events.

Hawker Chan Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.

A batty wine label from around 1880.

When Wine and Sauce Labels Were Glorious Works of Art

The wealthy once labeled their ketchup, soy sauce, and champagne with style.

Anne Ewbank May 1, 2019

Mexican Hamburger

This Denver specialty, a hybrid of Mexican and American cuisine, is peak comfort food.

Ketchup Chips

This Canadian favorite is relatively unknown elsewhere.

Spaghetti alla Puttanesca

Historians debate whether this dish actually originated with Italian sex workers.

Dumplings smothered in XO sauce.

XO Sauce

This savory seafood condiment is named after the finest cognacs.

Ambuyat

This gooey, starchy gel is Brunei's favorite flavor vehicle.

Hot sauce dominates Clinco's living room.

The World's Largest Hot Sauce Collection Might Be in an Arizona Living Room

8,600 bottles and counting.

Anne Ewbank November 2, 2018

Papas Arrugadas

These salty potatoes were originally boiled in seawater.

Chocolate Gravy

Sweet sauce tops off buttermilk biscuits in the Appalachian and Ozark mountains.

Jezebel sauce over cream cheese.

Jezebel Sauce

Cooks in the Southern United States still whip up this spicy, seductively sweet condiment from the 1950s.