Cost Rican chilera is a fermented vinegar and vegetable sauce that is a little bit spicy due to the Tabasco flavoring. The chilera is often homemade (although you can find it in grocery stores now).

Fermented hot sauce recipes significantly transform how we enjoy spicy condiments. They bring not just heat, but also a complex depth of flavor that can only be achieved through the fermentation ...

We think of ketchup as a thick red sauce, but it was something pretty different in the beginning. It originated as a thin soy sauce made from fermented ... ketchup recipes including Eliza Smith's ...