The waiter arrives to your table with a basket of French fries and shrimp salad. When the server leaves, you may reach for the ketchup or the cocktail sauce. Maybe you’ll grab the salt and pepper ...

Making ketchup at home is easier than you think, and the best vinegar to use for it is a favorite that you might already have in your pantry.

white wine, mace, ginger, cloves, peppers, a nutmeg, a lemon peel, and horseradish. So what happened to all those varieties of ketchup? Tomatoes. The 1812 recipe from James Mease is the first ...