One of the things that comes up in the food I make is the ingredients being classified as “smelly”. Think of durian (yes, we made a pie out of it last episode), limburger cheese, or fish sauce. I’m ...

According to the experts at Red Boat (aka makers of the famous fish sauce), fish sauce begins with fresh anchovies that are then covered in copious amounts of salt and left to ferment in vats for at ...

Noma Projects sells smoked mushroom garum, a vegan interpretation of a fermented fish sauce used for centuries. By Florence Fabricant The first product for home cooks from Noma Projects, a food lab ...

The ingredients for Erin Hayes's coconut curry cocktail, the Five O’clock in Phuket Credit: Andrea Bauer Challenged by Scofflaw’s Danny Shapiro with fish sauce, the pungent distillate of fermented ...

Few ancient foods tell a story as evocative as garum, the fermented fish sauce that once perfumed the kitchens and marketplaces of the Mediterranean. Over two millennia old, its origins reach back to ...