Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-07
TABASCo.
Where It Was First Made in Louise

From the New Orleans States.
Capt. John A. McIlhenny is In the city
this week from Avery Island. looking very
much IL he had been on a long military
campaign. judging from his rugged. sun
burned appearance. He is now paying very
close attention to his tabasco sauce manu-
featuring business. and at the present
time large new factory is going up.
I'VE are more than pleased with the
!, growth that this business has undergone in
he past few years" said the ,pta nj
he st. Charles Hotel. "The expans on of
abasco manufacturing has been beyond
our most sanguine expectations All of the
manufacturing is done on Avery Island
nd all of the peppers ustd are grown on
he island We raise them on our own
lantaton under ou4 own supervision
'Tabasco sauce was Irst made on the
Stand In 1865 by my father who thought
e could make sauce from the peppers
which grew there equ.i to Maunsel "A h,tc
II that time there was no post office at
very Island. and the label WAS made with
New Iberia on l., which h $ been allowed
o remain ever since.
There has been a great deal written
about tabaSco sIuce ever since can re-
member. In fact think thu 81 Get is one
mat has rather been oVe.dOne from the
newspaper standpoint and the. oniy new
thing there Is about tahasco is the factory.
VI coul Sc. this was made necess Try by the
great Increase IN the business and II will
not be possible for us to make enough to
supply the demand"
Avery Island is perhaps the most de-
hghtful spot in the state. high, dry and
healthful during all easons OF the year
AS Capt Mcllhenny states. tabasco has
ceen regarded and written about as one of
the distinct products of Louisiana for more
than h~lf a century. 1t is almost impossi-
bic to get into any first-class hotel or res
taurant anywhere in the United States
he latlfS IN,
basco sauce. 1t is not, howeve-, n sauce
than can be used in large quantities. 1t is
put up in very small bottles and a single
drop on an oyster is all that one can
relish. Many funny stories are told of peo-
pie who enter the New Orleans restaurants
and try tabasco on raw oysters for the
first time They will insist on putting about
teaSpoonful on an oyster and gulping IL
down, and then the fireworks begin. Such
dose causes the ca tie" to all the stars
in the armament. A teaspoonful of tabasco
would be enough for dozen of the largest
oysters that ever came out Of Bayou creek.
Much to the surprise of those who have
so long been familiar with tahqsco sauce,
all of the supply of the worlds market is
raised on about one hundred acres of land
But the manufactured produce of this one
hundred acres is perhaps the most valuable
of any of like of land in the United
States, If not in the world. 1t has been
said by those who ought to know that
the annual net revenues from tahasco
manufacturing were no less than sl5O.N0.
During the past few years there have
been all sorts of limitations of tabasco put
on the market. but regardless of that fact
those who really know the merits of t1bas-
co try always to get the genuine MrIlhenny
brand Such reputation has this sauce
that it is now sent To all parts of Europe
and enters into competition with Maunsel
White all over England and European
countries.
Therefore, despite all of the essays ever
written on tabasco sauca and on Avery
Island and on the McIlhennys II will al
ways remain a fact that the Manufacture
of tabasco will be of interest because of the
uniqueness of the industry because of the
romantic and historical interest attaching
to Avery Island and because every Iousi-
anfan points with p"id" to Capt. John n.
McIlhenny as the best example of what the
real southern gentleman to the manner
born really is and really ought to be.