Products Made in Louisiana

The McIlhenny Company has produced TABASCO hot sauce on Avery Island, Louisiana since Edmund McIlhenny created the original recipe in 1868. The peppers are still grown, aged in white oak barrels, and bottled on the same island where the company was founded — a remarkable continuity of place and process spanning over 150 years. Louisiana's food manufacturing heritage is deeply tied to its culinary culture, and TABASCO remains one of the state's most recognized exports worldwide. Crystal Hot Sauce has been produced in Reserve, Louisiana since 1923, adding another century-deep thread to the state's proud tradition of crafting distinctly Southern hot sauces. Tony Chachere's Creole Foods has produced its Original Creole Seasoning and Cajun pantry staples in Opelousas since 1972, founded by the legendary 'Cajun Cook' himself at age 73 and now a Gulf Coast kitchen institution.