Spicing the world for 150 years

In 1868 Edmund McIlhenny harvested his first tabasco pepper crop from which he created a piquant sauce to enliven the flavors in foods for family and friends. The creation of this simple sauce would unwittingly change the way the world eats forever. Today, the same three ingredients that made his TABASCO(R) Sauce - tabasco peppers, salt and vinegar - are aged and bottled by Edmund's family on Avery Island, the process virtually unchanged.

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On the occasion of its 150th anniversary, McIlhenny Company, the maker of TABASCO(R) Sauce, will mark this historic milestone with a yearlong celebration dedicated to the people who have made "that famous sauce Mr. McIlhenny makes" a staple on tables, indispensable in kitchens and an essential ingredient in classic and contemporary recipes worldwide.

Tabasco's iconic red-capped bottle with the diamond label is sold in more than 185 countries and territories and labeled in 22 languages and dialects. This instantly recognizable pepper sauce is just as at home in main street diners, hole-in-the-wall dives and the finest dining establishments as it is in the home pantries, kitchen tabletops and handbags of food lovers all over the world

The 150th anniversary celebration kicked off in New Orleans with a limited engagement of TABASCO: A Burlesque Opera, a comedic burlesque dating to the late 19th century that hasn't been performed in its entirety in more than a century.

The festivities continued on January 28, 2018, as many of New Orleans' most notable chefs and culinary institutions took part in the first ever TABASCO(R) Week in partnership with the New Orleans Tricentennial Commission, which commemorated the 300th anniversary of the city of New Orleans this year.

From New Orleans, the birthday party hit the road to celebrate the role of TABASCO(R) Sauce in the global kitchen. McIlhenny Company have invited fans in New York, London, Shanghai and beyond to events big and small, where they can taste the exciting and unexpected ways the world's top chefs and creative cooks use the pepper sauce.

Through the magic of 360 degree video, event attendees the world over will be transported to Avery Island, where heirloom tabasco pepper fields thrive, mashed peppers age in oak barrels and the TABASCO(R) Sauce factory still produces every single bottle of the world's most famous sauce.

Cruise into celebration with our commemorative TABASCO® 150th Anniversary Wooden Model T Truck. Reminiscent of McIlhenny Company's early years, this all-wood Model T features the TABASCO® diamond logo and comes stocked with six miniature pepper sauce bottles of Original Red Sauce.

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