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Tabasco island: Is this the hottest place in the world?

Tabasco island: Is this the hottest place in the world?

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN • Updated 26th October 2017, http://www.cnn.com/travel/arti...a-tabasco/index.html

(CNN) — For its size, it packs a serious punch.
Avery Island -- not actually an island but a salt dome in southern Louisiana -- is the home of one of the most popular hot sauces in the world.
A few drops of its famous Tabasco is enough to liven up any meal.
Surrounded by bayou, salt marsh and swamp, and about 2.5 miles across at its widest point, Avery Island has been the home of Tabasco sauce since the 1800s.
Every bottle of the fiery foodstuff, made from the tabasco chili pepper, is still made on the island, which is named after the family who've owned it for more than 200 years
Tabasco sauce was dreamed up by Edmund McIlhenny, an Avery clan member by marriage, who moved to the area after losing everything in the Civil War.

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