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Glossary: Tabasco

Sauce [tuh-BAS-koh] A trademarked name held by the McIlhenny family since the mid-1800s, describing a fiery sauce made from tabasco peppers (barrel-fermented for 3 years), vinegar and salt. The tabasco pepper is a very hot, small red chile that originated in the Mexican state of Tabasco. The word tabasco means 'damp earth.'

From THE NEW FOOD LOVERS COMPANION, Fourth edition by Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst. Copyright © 2007, 2001, 1995, 1990 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

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