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According to the company's official history, Tabasco was first produced in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, [3] a Maryland-born former banker who moved to Louisiana around 1840. However, as Jeffrey Rothfeder's book McIlhenny's Gold points out, some of the McIlhenny Company's official history is disputed, and the politician Maunsel White was producing ...
Edmund McIlhenny (/ ˈ m æ k əl h ɛ n i /; 1815 – 25 November 1890) was an American businessman and manufacturer who founded the McIlhenny Company, which was the first to mass produce Tabasco sauce.
In 1938, his son, Edward Avery McIlhenny established a nutria farm on Avery Island, Louisiana, near the factory where the company that bears his family name makes Tabasco sauce. According to company history, McIlhenny bought his stock of nutrias from a farm near New Orleans, so he was not the first to introduce the creature, a native of ...
The McIlhenny Company, founded in 1868 on Louisiana’s Avery Island, produces America’s most popular chili sauce—a thin, vinegary sauce in a small glass bottle that is made from hot peppers ...
Edward Avery McIlhenny (March 29, 1872 – August 8, 1949), son of Tabasco Company founder Edmund McIlhenny, was an American businessman, explorer, bird bander and conservationist. He established a private wildlife refuge around his family estate on Avery Island and helped in preserving a large coastal marshland in Louisiana as a bird refuge.
Tabasco sauce was first produced in 1868 by Edmund McIlhenny, a Maryland-born former banker who moved to Louisiana around 1840. McIlhenny initially used discarded cologne bottles to distribute his sauce to family and friends. He aged red peppers for over 3 years in barrels to develop its unique flavor Tabasco uses Tabasco peppers grown in ...
This category is about the McIlhenny family, manufacturer of Tabasco brand pepper sauce. Pages in category "McIlhenny family" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Walter Stauffer McIlhenny (October 22, 1910 – June 22, 1985) served as president of McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand pepper sauce, from 1949 until his death in 1985. He also distinguished himself as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve — receiving the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal and retiring as ...