Bag of Beans » hot sauce http://bagofbeans.tsangal.org Caffeine not included. Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:32:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A Chili Sauce to Crow About – The Origins of Sriracha Sauce http://bagofbeans.tsangal.org/archives/547 http://bagofbeans.tsangal.org/archives/547#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:53:48 +0000 Beanbag http://bagofbeans.tsangal.org/?p=547 Continue reading →]]> Good article in the New York Times on where Sriracha sauce comes from.

The lure of Asian authenticity is part of the appeal. Some American consumers believe sriracha (properly pronounced SIR-rotch-ah) to be a Thai sauce. Others think it is Vietnamese. The truth is that sriracha, as manufactured by Huy Fong Foods, may be best understood as an American sauce, a polyglot purée with roots in different places and peoples.

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