Migration of Sauce: Every Sauce Is a Refugee: 45 Sauces, Six Migrations, and the Stories That Changed How World Tastes

Every sauce crossed a border. Every one changed in the crossing.Soy sauce traveled through centuries of trade. Peri-peri carries an American chili, an African kitchen, and a Portuguese sea route in every fiery spoonful. Gochujang became unmistakably Korean only after a foreign pepper arrived centuries ago. And sriracha crossed oceans in the memory of a refugee who rebuilt the taste of home in Los Angeles.Migration of Sauce follows forty-five sauces through six kinds of crossing-by sea, by empire, by immigrant hands, through border invention, through the migration of sweetness, and through the flavors traveling the world right now.Along the way, discover the people behind the jars: traders and refugees, home cooks and grandmothers, forgotten workers and ambitious chefs. Learn where these sauces began, why they moved, what they encountered, and how the crossing transformed them.Every story ends in the kitchen with an approachable recipe and practical ideas for using the sauce today.45 sauces. Six migrations. Stories, history, and recipes from a world that has never stopped moving.For readers who love culinary history, global food culture, travel, immigration stories, and discovering why the foods in our cupboards taste the way they do.A Migration of Food Book.