Edmund McElhenney

…Edmund's version was, slowly, and then not so slowly, beginning to travel.…

…or was the exclusive property of one family on one island in Louisiana, were going to be conducted with a ferocity and a duration that, frankly, suggests the McElhenney family had inherited some of the Irish stubbornness that had driven Edmund south from Maryland half a century earlier.…

…Edmund McElhenney died in 1890, and the battles that followed his death over the word Tabasco, over what it referred to, who owned it, and whether it could be used by anyone making any kind of pepper product,…