Tarragon, dragon's-wort, French tarragon, Russian tarragon, silky wormwood, or wild tarragon ( Artemisia dracunculus ) is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood.

Tarragon is one of the four fines herbes of French cooking, and is particularly suitable for chicken, fish and egg dishes.

Tarragon is the main flavoring component of Béarnaise sauce.

Tarragon is used to flavor a popular carbonated soft drink in the countries of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and, by extension, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Tarragon is keeping Rascar Capac's mummy in his house and is being tightly guarded against any attack.

The Tarragon Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Canada, and one of the main centers for contemporary playwriting in the country.

Tarragon is well known for its development, creation and encouragement of new work.

The most prominent member of this group is Calculus's friend Hercules Tarragon, with whom he attended university.

Capture Me, which premiered in early 2004 at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, is centred on a kindergarten teacher who, while searching for her birth mother, is stalked by her violent ex-husband.

Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing.

Concerned, Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus go to stay with Calculus's old friend and only expedition member yet to be affected, the ebullient Professor Tarragon.

Tarragon grows to 120 – 150 cm tall, with slender branched stems.

Tarragon has an aromatic property reminiscent of anise, due to the presence of estragole, a known carcinogen and teratogen in mice.

cis-Pellitorin, an isobutyramide eliciting a pungent taste, has been isolated from Tarragon plant.

Tarragon reduces platelet adhesion and blood coagulation and thus may help prevent cardiovascular disease.

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In 1971, he became aware of a new theatre, the Tarragon in Toronto, that was producing a play called Creeps.

Glasco produced the play and it filled the final slot in the Tarragon ’ s first season.

Of The Fields, Lately ( 1973 ), French's sequel to Leaving Home, also produced at the Tarragon, won the Chalmers Award for 1973.

And Soldier ’ s Heart, which explores the effect of the First World War on two generations of Mercers, was produced at the Tarragon in 2001.

Some of the major theatre companies of Toronto include: Canadian Stage Company, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe-Muraille, the Factory Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre Company, Buddies in Bad Times and Alumnae Theatre.

His directing credits include Soulpepper's productions of Death of a Salesman, Twelfth Night, As you Like It, Oh What a Lovely War, The Caretaker, Waiting for Godot, No Man's Land, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Time of Your Life, and Susan Coyne's Kingfisher Days for the Tarragon Theatre.

Tarragon, clearly shaken, informs them a prophecy has come true: Rascar Capac has returned to his element and punishment will descend upon the desecrators.

After Tintin, Captain Haddock, and Professor Calculus are each visited in their nightmares by the mummy, the three awaken to find Professor Tarragon comatose with the telltale shards of crystal by his bed.

Tarragon awakens and screams about mysterious figures attacking him, before slipping back into a coma.

Tintin realizes Chiquito disappeared the same night Professor Tarragon was attacked and Calculus kidnapped and deduces he could be one of the kidnappers.

In 1987, Tarragon purchased and renovated the building that has been its home since 1971.

Over 170 works have premiered at Tarragon.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

Third, the United States is pressing forward in the development of large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons into space for exploration purposes.

In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.

This is in large part a code of behavior and a glossary of values: what is it that people do and should do and how one should regard it.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.

We believe that autism, like so many other conditions of defect and deviation, is to a large extent inborn.

Decca is not the only large commercial company to impart instruction.

For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

In any event, the yearly sacrifice of 40,000 victims is a hecatomb too large to be justified by the most ardent faith.

The lack of scientific unanimity on the effects of radiation is due in part to insufficient data covering large population groups, from which agreed-on generalizations could be drawn.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

Our complaint is that in many crucial areas the Kennedy programs are not too large but too small, most seriously in regard to the conventional arms build-up and in aid and welfare measures.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.

Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.