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The Tabasco business founder omitted the sauce from a life sketch
Edmund McIlhenny began selling Tabasco-brand pepper sauce in nineteenth-century America. Yet the article reports that an autobiographical sketch he wrote late in life did not mention the sauce. His sons later expanded the business.
The work remembered later need not dominate its maker’s own account.
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