Fry sauce Fry sauce Fry sauce is a condiment often served with French fries or tostones (twice-fried plantain slices) in many places in the world. It is usually a combination of one part tomato ketchup and two parts mayonnaise, with many variations which add additional ingredients to the basic recipe. Although sauce composed of a mixture of equal parts ketchup and mayonnaise appears in a New Orleans cookbook published in 1900, fry sauce was originally popularized in the United States by a chef named Don Carlos Edwards, who served it in his first restaurant, Don Carlos’ Barbecue in Salt Lake City, which
Antoine de La Fosse became secretary for the 2nd Duke of Aumont Louis-Marie-Victor d'Aumont (1632–1704). La Fosse translated the odes of Anacreon to French ("Traduction nouvelle des odes d'Anacreon, sur l'original grec") in 1704, and popular with contemporaries the second edition was published in 1706. German classicist (1701–1756) praised the French verse translation. La Fosse's "chef d'œuvre" "Manlius Capitolinus" (1698) about Marcus Manlius Capitolinus (died ), was imitated from the English dramatist Thomas Otway's play "Venice Preserv'd", who in turn had taken his plot from César Vichard de Saint-Réal's "Conjuration des Espagnols contre la République de Venise en l'Année M. DC. XVIII" (1674). La