Description: Vintage Recipe Booklet - From the Land of Tabasco Sauce AVERY Island 1984 McIlhenny Company, Avery Island, Louisiana From the book: Foreword A huge upthrust of sea salt jutting above the humid Gulf Coast, Avery Island. Since 1818. home of the McIlhenny family and their forebears in the delta country of Louisiana. Ancient live oaks crown the knolls, giving shade and beauty to the homes of family mem bers. Cypress and palmetto line the waterways surrounding the Island. Drifts of wild azalea overhang quiet lagoons alive with waterfowl. But there's a workaday side to this subtropical wonderland. For Avery Island is also the home of the McIlhenny's unique contribution to the world of seasoning, the remarkable pepper sauce called Tabasco. There are vine-hung red brick work buildings, clusters of greenhouses, acres and acres of slop ing fields where peppers grow. And, almost hid- den from view by encroaching tree cover, a busy, working salt mine. The pepper sauce industry was founded in 1868. After years of experimenting. Edmund Mellhenny had developed the perfect pepper sauce for seasoning the dishes his family liked best, dishes taken from the Spanish, French, American Indian and African cookeries of the Acadian land to which Avery Island belongs. Since then the McIlhennys have searched around the globe for other foods and flavors compatible to their own unique pepper sauce. This booklet offers some of the family's fa vorite recipes, as well as visits to the Land of Tabasco its people, its places, its occasions.. Foreword A huge upthrust of sea salt jutting above the humid Gulf Coast, Avery Island. Since 1818. home of the McIlhenny family and their forebears in the delta country of Louisiana. Ancient live oaks crown the knolls, giving shade and beauty to the homes of family mem bers. Cypress and palmetto line the waterways surrounding the Island. Drifts of wild azalea overhang quiet lagoons alive with waterfowl. But there's a workaday side to this subtropical wonderland. For Avery Island is also the home of the McIlhenny's unique contribution to the world of seasoning, the remarkable pepper sauce called Tabasco. There are vine-hung red brick work buildings, clusters of greenhouses, acres and acres of slop ing fields where peppers grow. And, almost hid- den from view by encroaching tree cover, a busy, working salt mine. The pepper sauce industry was founded in 1868. After years of experimenting. Edmund Mellhenny had developed the perfect pepper sauce for seasoning the dishes his family liked best, dishes taken from the Spanish, French, American Indian and African cookeries of the Acadian land to which Avery Island belongs. Since then the McIlhennys have searched around the globe for other foods and flavors compatible to their own unique pepper sauce. This booklet offers some of the family's fa vorite recipes, as well as visits to the Land of Tabasco its people, its places, its occasions..
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Subject: Cooking
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