The Hot Sauce Cookbook: Turn Up the Heat with 60+ Pepper Sauce Recipes

The Hot Sauce Cookbook: Turn Up the Heat with 60+ Recipes by Robb Walsh is a lively, wide-ranging exploration of chili-based condiments from a James Beard Award–winning food writer and historian. Moving far beyond the everyday bottle on the table, Walsh blends food history, practical technique, and global flavor traditions—guiding readers through the science of heat, the craft of fermentation, and the many ways hot sauce shows up across the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Bold, informative, and highly usable, this collection is perfect for cooks who want to understand the cultural depth, versatility, and thrill of heat in the kitchen.