The Red Boat Fish Sauce Cook Book: Beloved Recipes from the Family Behind the Purest Fish Sauce

"Branded cookbooks, with their loyalties to just one condiment or liquor, can be hit or miss. But the Red Boat Fish Sauce Cookbook isn’t mere product placement: It’s the story of an immigrant family that made good in the U.S. but missed its roots enough to replicate – and literally bottle – them. Colorful and quirky, the book waxes poetic on the origins and qualities of fish sauce and its traditional uses: in sticky, savory pork ribs, for example, or pho. But it also turns out to be an unexpected umami booster in some distinctly non-Vietnamese contexts, like Pan-Seared Ribeyes with Red Boat Butter or pasta marinara or roast chicken."