A culinary and cultural icon, 120,000 visitors come to Avery Island annually, to experience all-things TABASCO®. Known as ‘Ile Petite Anse’, the hot sauce has helped put Iberia Parish on the map.
Tabasco traces its roots to 19th-century southern Louisiana, when businessman Edmund McIlhenny founded the company in 1868 on Avery Island. The McIlhenny family has made Tabasco sauce on Avery Island ...
A FOOTLOOSE CORRESPONDENTS piece about the tabasco industry on Avery Island, La., and family history of the McIlhennys, owners of the business and the island. Visit to a salt mine on the island.
There have been some whopping great animals that have crawled, waddled, flapped, and even swum their way over planet Earth across many thousands of years. While the biggest animal to ever live is ...