While Chinese cuisine has absorbed outside ingredients and techniques, many dishes around the world have drawn from it The ...

The waiter arrives to your table with a basket of French fries and shrimp salad. When the server leaves, you may reach for ...

Ketchup traces its origins to the Hokkien Chinese word kê-tsiap, referring to a fermented fish sauce. This sauce, believed to ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Ketchup—that cheerful red sauce sold in handy glass bottles—first came on the American market in the 19th century.