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• n  a salt used especially in baking powder
• n  a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
• n  a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century
• n  an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums

• There are some useful food-choice tips in the book: cocktail sauce rather than tartar sauce; sorbet rather than ice cream.
• For our first course at La Terza, beef tartar, Mascha poured Vichy Catalan, arguing that the high mineral content would hold up against the beef.
• She employs cream of tartar instead of toxic chemical binders to fuse pigments to textiles.

• cream of tartar
• potassium bitartrate
• potassium hydrogen tartrate
• dragon
• Tatar
• Tartar
• Mongol Tatar
• calculus
• tophus

News & Articles

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• Mini-Squeeze Bottles Look Good on Any Table
  WorldPressOnline First Call – 300ml multi-layer bottles from RPC Containers Corby's Hercules range have been selected by Swiss specialist in condiments and sauces Reitzel for a new handy-size pack for foodservice operations. Five classic sauces - ketchup, mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, mild spicy mustard and tartar sauce - have been launched by Reitzel under the Hugo Reitzel brand. The ...
  June 13, 2013 - ThomasNet
• Chef's Corner: Green goddess dressing reigns over multitude of foods
  Green goddess dressing is a mayonnaise-based blend of herbs and greenery. It works with poached foods, raw vegetables and tartar; makes a great dipping sauce, and can even be used to dress salad greens.
  June 11, 2013 - Detroit Free Press

Quotes

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• Lafcadio Hearn in Houston Chronicle
  In re sponse to a reader who asked how to make tartar sauce, Hearn wrote, "First, catch a young Tartar, for the old ones are very tough and devoid of juice."
• Justin Lin in San Francisco Chronicle
  I grew up peeling shrimp and making tartar sauce,Lin says. "We came over when I was 8 from Taiwan. That was my life: going to school, working at the restaurant, playing basketball. Even though Anaheim is just 40 minutes away (from Los...
• William Wordsworth in Times Online
  More than 200 years ago, in The Prelude (1805), William Wordsworth recalled his excitement on returning to London after three years in Cambridge: "Now homeward through the hubbub . . . the Hunter-Indian; Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar, the...