Duck sauce is a classic accompaniment to spring rolls, egg rolls, and other fried foods in Westernized Chinese cuisine. It’s a sweet-and-sour sauce made with fruit such as plum, apricot, peaches, or pineapple, plus vinegar and a little chile...

Salsa roja, meaning simply “red salsa” in Spanish, is growing on menus as consumers crave more Latin flavors but also more authenticity in dishes from different cultures...

Ranch water, a refreshing blend of tequila, lime, and sparkling water, is believed to have originated in Texas in the 1960s but has only recently gained huge popularity nationwide thanks to consumers' increasing love of tequila (now the top...

Shoestring fries are appearing on more menus because they’re adaptable and provide nostalgia for consumers, who either remember grabbing some thin and crispy fries with a burger as they rose in popularity in the 1950s and ’60s, or more likely pine...