Vodka sauce Vodka sauce Vodka sauce is an American cuisine sauce made from a smooth tomato sauce, vodka, typical Italian herbs and heavy cream, which gives the sauce its distinctive orange coloration. It gained popularity in the 1970s, when a variation won a national recipe contest in Italy, although it may well have been a sauce before its popularization in the 1970s. It is a key ingredient in penne alla vodka. The vodka's function is, ostensibly, to release flavors in the tomato that are normally inaccessible; using alcoholic beverages for this purpose is common in Italian cooking, although usually accomplished with wine.
Soup soy sauce Soup soy sauce Guk-ganjang () or soup soy sauce is a type of Korean soy sauce ("ganjang") made entirely of fermented soybean ("meju") and brine. It is also a byproduct of "doenjang" production. Both lighter in colour and saltier than other Korean "ganjang" varieties, soup soy sauce is used mainly in "guk" (soup) and "namul" (a seasoned vegetable dish) in modern Korean cuisine. Soup soy sauce is referred to by many different names. In the English-speaking world, it is most commonly known as "soup soy sauce", which is a direct translation of "guk-ganjang" (). The name "soup soy sauce" is