Hot sauce - it's on nearly every restaurant table in America, but did you realize one of the most famous versions started as a banker's desperate attempt to make bland post-Civil War food taste better?
That's quite a claim about Tabasco sauce. I always assumed it came from some long line of chefs or food artisans.
Well, here's where it gets fascinating - Edmund McIlhenny was actually a banker in 1860s Louisiana who got his hands on some Mexican tabasco peppers and started experimenting on Avery Island, which isn't really an island at all.
