The McIlhenny clan has done it by adhering to 150 years of tradition in how they make their sauce and also what they say about it publicly - which is typically very little.

McIlhenny was a member of a storied clan whose 145-year-old company has been producing the original world-famous Tabasco sauce for several generations, since shortly after the Civil War.

Edmund McIlhenny created Tabasco in 1868, according to the company's website. McIlhenny used small "cologne-type" bottles, green wax seal and sprinkler fitments to create the iconic packaging seen ...

Paul C. McIlhenny, chief executive and chairman of the board of the McIlhenny Company that makes the trademarked line of Tabasco hot pepper sauces and other products, has died. He was 68.A company ...

McIlhenny, founded in 1868 in Louisiana, has been producing Original Red Tabasco Sauce for more than 150 years; that small bottle’s presence on diner tables worldwide is basically a given. The ...

McIlhenny, who died in New Orleans, was a sixth-generation descendent of the company’s founder, a Civil War-era food tinkerer. He had worked for the company for 45 years and served as its chief ...

McIlhenny wanted to market his sauce to the U.S. military to help improve the quality of rations. By the time the United States got involved in Vietnam, he didn't have an official deal, but he ...

Paul McIlhenny, the chairman and chief executive of the company that makes Tabasco sauce, has died. He was 68. McIlhenny Company, based in Avery Island, Louisiana, said he died Saturday. The cause ...

McIlhenny created a “Tabasco bible” which the manufacturers continue to follow today. The sauce is now sold in 187 countries and bottled in 22 languages and dialects, with its ingredients ...

One of Paul McIlhenny's favorite roles as leader of the Louisiana-based family company that makes Tabasco was taste tester, and as chairman and chief executive of McIlhenny Co. he helped lead ...

McIlhenny has a 17.1% market share; Reckitt Benckiser, maker of Frank's RedHot, has 11.3% and Huy Fong Foods has 8%, according to IBISWorld. Food giants can be outflanked.

And here's a gallery of McIlhenny's interiors from the April 1986 House and Garden, which a reader scanned and sent to the blog The Blue Remembered Hills. Though the listing claims Henry Plumer ...