FP Update 2/5 Avery Island, LA

We visited the Tabasco factory today and what a cool location and history!

Tabasco Brand products are made by the McIlhenny Company, founded by Edmund McIlhenny in 1868 on Avery Island, Louisiana. It is here that he developed the recipe for Tabasco -the Original Red Pepper Sauce that's been passed down from generation to generation. To this day, the company is still family-owned and -operated on that very same island. Which in today’s world of buy- outs and consolidation is AMAZING 🤩

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.
Like all successful innovations, he solved a problem 😁

Fun facts:
Process starts with grinding the peppers into what they refer to as Pepper Mash

The mash is barreled for three years

The barrels have a layer of salt on top
5 years seed to sauce

Also on the Island Jungle Gardens which Edmund created to preserve the area 170 acres. He brought in 65 varieties of Bamboo which about 35 are still living. It’s the largest population of Bamboo grass outside of China. Also imported Holly trees and Camellias shrubs. You drive through the gardens which are lined with all the plants listed above and of course Oak trees.
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