We asked the experts at Tabasco—the U.S.'s sixth most popular hot sauce brand owned by the McIlhenny Company—if it's really ...

Beside me and holding a scoop of the scorpion pepper mash is John Simmons, a sixth-generation member of the McIlhenny family that founded Tabasco on Avery Island back in 1868. Simmons is in his ...

This is a very hot pepper.” Whatever the case, McIlhenny planted them in his garden and they bore a pepper plant with a strong spicy flavor he couldn’t get enough of. McIlhenny created what ...

McIlhenny's Tabasco sauce condiment (which measures the ripeness of its peppers using an old-fashioned process) has a significantly lower Scoville rating compared to the fresh tabasco pepper ...

In 1868, Edmund McIlhenny planted his first crop of peppers on Avery Island, Louisiana; 140 years and five generations later, his own descendants are mashing those peppers’ descendants. 3.

These vinegar-based pepper sauces, however, account for only a small fraction of the world’s hot sauces. In recent years McIlhenny also began producing its own version of Sriracha sauce, a ...

Tabasco, founded in Avery Island, Louisiana, in 1868, is one of the world's most popular hot sauces. It was conceived by an Irish-American banker amid privation that followed the Civil War.