Which famous sauce is manufactured by McIlhenny & Co of Avery Island Louisiana?
Edward Avery McIlhenny Edward Avery McIlhenny Edward Avery "Ned" McIlhenny (29 March 1872 – 8 August 1949), son of Tabasco brand pepper sauce tycoon Edmund McIlhenny, was an American businessman, explorer, bird bander and conservationist. He established a private wildlife refuge around his family estate on Avery Island and helped in preserving a large coastal marshland in Louisiana as a bird refuge. He also introduced several exotic plants into Jungle Gardens, his private wildlife garden. McIlhenny is sometimes blamed for the introduction of exotic coypu into Louisiana where they are a major ecological problem although it is now known that he was neither
Edward Avery McIlhenny black vultures. In 1941, he wrote on the potential extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker, noting its presence in his estate on Avery Island and suggesting that the destruction of old growth forests was key to its demise. The subspecies of white-tailed deer on Avery Island was named after McIlhenny as "Odocoileus virginianus mcilhennyi" by Frederic W. Miller in 1928. McIlhenny used his personal estate, known as Jungle Gardens, to propagate both Louisiana-native and imported plant varieties, including azaleas, irises, camellias, papyrus, and bamboo. He wrote numerous academic articles, mainly about birds and reptiles, oversaw the publication in English of two