Mr. Tabasco
Mr. Tabasco
TABSCO brand products were made by Mcllhenny Company in 1868 on Avery Island Louisiana. The diet of the Reconstruction South was bland and monotonous, especially by Louisiana standards. So, Edmund McIlhenny decided to create a pepper sauce to give the food some flavor and excitement.
A food lover and avid gardener, Edmund McIlhenny was given seeds of Capsicum frutescens peppers that had come from Mexico or Central America. On Avery Island in South Louisiana, he sowed the seeds, nurtured the plants, and delighted in the spicy flavor of the peppers they bore. Many years later field hands used a little red stick, or ‘le petite bâton rouge,’ to measure the ripeness of the peppers. Staying true to the history of TABASCO® Brand, the peppers are still used today.
McIlhenny grew his first commercial pepper crop in 1868. The next year, he sent out 658 bottles of sauce at one dollar apiece wholesale to grocers around the Gulf Coast, particularly in New Orleans. He labeled it “Tabasco,” a word of Mexican Indian origin believed to mean “place where the soil is humid” or “place of the coral or oyster shell.” McIlhenny secured a patent in 1870, and TABASCO® Sauce began its journey to set the culinary world on fire.
Edmund Mcllhenny
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