1.   Add the mushrooms, herbs, tomato puree, wine or water, fish sauce and salt and pepper.

2.   I could smell the fierce immediacy of cinnamon, anise, and fish sauce on the tips of her nails.

3.   Stir in fish sauce, coconut milk, sugar, and lime juice and bring to a simmer.

4.   Although fish sauce is linked to Southeast Asia, it also has ancient roots in the Mediterranean.

5.   Amphoras were the all-purpose shipping vessels of antiquity, holding wine, olive oil, honey, fish sauce and other trade products.

6.   And although dried shrimp and fish sauce are sometimes more challenging for customers, he finds that adding them slowly to the repertory works.

7.   And the final step is making the lime sauce, a simple combination of garlic, chiles, lime, fish sauce and a little sugar for balance.

8.   And with an increasingly diverse population in Boston, shoppers are also snapping up Vietnamese fish sauce, beef empanadillas and Indian papadam.

9.   A fillip at the end is a sauce made of garlic, lemon juice and nuoc mam, the Vietnamese fermented fish sauce.

10.   Add fish sauce and oyster sauce and cook until meat is brown.