Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - (Page 30) dmund obtained peppers in New Orleans from a soldier who had recently returned to the United States from Mexico. Edmund planted the seeds from these peppers on Avery Island and used their fruit to invent a pepper sauce for the family table. E RECIPE FOR SUCCESS At war’s end Edmund returned with his family to Avery Island. His in-laws emerged from the conflict with their sugarcane fields and salt mines intact, but Edmund’s banks were in financial and physical ruin. Having lost his antebellum wealth, Edmund spent months alone in New Orleans looking for work, but no one wanted to hire a middle-aged former independent banker, especially when young carpetbaggers could be had so inexpensively. Edmund dejectedly returned to the Island, moved into the Avery residence, and occupied his time tending the family’s fruit and vegetable garden. It was during this period that Edmund first experimented with making a red pepper sauce. What spurred him to do so remains unclear because he left behind no personal account of the matter. (Edmund’s autobiographical sketch focused entirely on his success as an antebellum banker.) Furthermore, his wife and children later could not agree about such basic details of the story as when and from whom he obtained his peppers. Their accounts, however, exhibit several common elements. For example, they claim that Edmund obtained the peppers in New Orleans from a soldier, possibly named Gleason, who had recently returned to the United States from Mexico. Edmund planted seeds from these peppers on Avery Island and used their fruit to invent a pepper sauce for the family table. He bottled this homemade sauce in used 30 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Fall 2005
Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 Contents Editor’s Column Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Louisiana State Museum After Katrina and Rita Tabasco: Edmund McIlhenny and the Birth of a Louisiana Pepper Sauce Historic New Orleans Collection Louisiana Association of Museums New Orleans’ Coffee Connection No Man’s Land Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism Bookstand (Book Review by Thomas Uskali) Sound Advice (Music Review by Ben Sandmel) Forum (Commentary by Roy Blount, Jr. ) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 (Page Cover1) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 (Page Cover2) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Contents (Page 1) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Contents (Page 2) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Editor’s Column (Page 3) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - 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Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (Page 67) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Bookstand (Book Review by Thomas Uskali) (Page 68) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Bookstand (Book Review by Thomas Uskali) (Page 69) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Sound Advice (Music Review by Ben Sandmel) (Page 70) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Sound Advice (Music Review by Ben Sandmel) (Page 71) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Forum (Commentary by Roy Blount, Jr. ) (Page 72) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Forum (Commentary by Roy Blount, Jr. ) (Page Cover3) Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - Forum (Commentary by Roy Blount, Jr. ) (Page Cover4)
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