Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Fall 2005 - (Page 31) opposite page, top: Topographical map of Avery Island, a salt dome off the Louisiana Gulf coast in St. Martin parish. opposite page, bottom: Tabasco became a nationally recognized product thanks to E.C. Hazard, proprietor of one of the largest food distributors in 19th-century America. left and below: A former pigeonniere (pigeon house) and Confederate observation tower known as the Marsh House on the McIlhenny’s Avery Island estate became Edmund McIlhenny’s business headquarters and experimental kitchen for Tabasco sauce. cologne bottles and eventually shared it with friends in New Orleans, who urged him to market it commercially in local groceries. Whatever the origin, in 1868 Edmund grew his first commercial pepper crop. Although he made no sauce that year, he used the crop of 1868 and that of the next year to produce 658 bottles of pepper sauce in 1869. In 1870 he produced 1,012 bottles; in 1871, 2,896 bottles; and in the banner year of 1872, 15,084 bottles. Production peaked in 1889, when Edmund manufactured 41,472 bottles. Edmund made his sauce in a factory located on a gentle slope across the lawn from Marsh House. Known as “the Laboratory,” the building consisted of a three-story stucco tower and a rectangular two-story brick and clapboard structure. According to family tradition, the Laboratory originated in the antebellum period as a pigeonniere (pigeon house); during the Civil War, however, Confederate soldiers added the tower’s third-story as an observation deck and built the brick and clapboard section as a barracks or supply depot. Claiming the Laboratory as his workplace, Edmund used the tower’s base as his business office and its adjoining rooms for concocting Tabasco sauce. The manufactur- Fall 2005/LOUISIANA CULTURAL VISTAS 31
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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