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Tabasco Sauce

This spicy sauce is made in Louisiana and sold around the world.

by Shane K. Bernard

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Tabasco Sauce

The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

A bottle of Tabasco pepper sauce, 2023. Melissa Carrier, photographer.

Tabasco® is a popular pepper sauce brand that got its start in Louisiana. The sauce is made by the McIlhenny Company, which is named for its founder Edmund McIlhenny. Edmund first planted seeds from Mexican pepper plants on Avery Island in southcentral Louisiana in the 1860s. Edmund used their fruit to invent a spicy red pepper sauce for the family table. Today the Tabasco company is still family owned, but their business has grown a lot. The company manufactures more than 700,000 bottles of traditional Tabasco sauce per day! They also make a variety of other flavors of pepper sauce using different recipes and ingredients.

 

 

 

Author

Shane K. Bernard

Additional Data

Entry Published June 27, 2023
Entry Last Updated June 29, 2023
Coverage 1868–present
Category
Topics
Regions Southwest Louisiana (Acadiana), Iberia
Time Periods Antebellum Period, Bourbon Era, Civil War Period, Contemporary Period, Late-20th Century, Long Era, Reconstruction Period
Index letter T
Louisiana K­–12
Student Standard(s) for Social Studies 		1.8 f.

1.8 Identify examples of Louisiana culture, including:

f. Cuisine: jambalaya, gumbo, etouffee, bread pudding, meat pies, tamales
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"Tabasco Sauce" by Shane K. Bernard
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