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Learn everything there is to know about the history and creation of TABASCO® Brand. Discover how Edmund McIlhenny created and sold his original pepper sauce, changed the history of hot sauce forever, and how its still being made in much the same way today.
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Tabasco is an American brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt. It is produced by McIlhenny Company of Avery Island in south Louisiana, having been created over 150 years ago by Edmund McIlhenny. [1] .
Oct 5, 2022 · Pretty much everybody will recognize the name of the sauce he created: Tabasco Sauce. It’s still made right there on Avery Island by McIlhenny’s descendants, but now it comes in nine...
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Tabasco sauce. According to one legend, McIlhenny was given tabasco peppers and a recipe for tabasco sauce by a friend, plantation owner Maunsel White, who died in 1863 – though company legend says McIlhenny himself invented the sauce between 1866 and 1868
Oct 10, 2019 · Sometime around 1867, McIlhenny began experimenting with a sauce made from the peppers. He crushed the red peppers from his plants, mixed them with the salt found naturally on Avery Island and aged the mixture for a month in crocks and jars and barrels.
Jan 26, 2021 · Unless you’re talking about Tabasco, which has been produced by the McIlhenny Company in southern Louisiana for nearly 150 years, ever since founder Edmund McIlhenny decided to create a pepper sauce to give the bland food of the Reconstruction South a much-needed kick of flavor and spice.
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McIlhenny's Tabasco sauce became the original hot sauce--now a trademark and service mark of the McIlhenny Company. In 1868, McIlhenny sent 350 samples to wholesalers in New York--including the E.C. Hazard Grocery Company, owned by the cousin of a friend.
