FOX 8
LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. (WVUE) - It was a way to provide year-round jobs for farm workers in the Northeast Louisiana town of Lake Providence. And this success story started with grandma’s home-made recipe for hot sauce.
This is the flat delta farm region of extreme Northeastern Louisiana, only five miles from the Arkansas state line. This area is home to the Panola Pepper Company tucked away near the Mississippi River levee on an oxbow lake.
This pepper sauce making business started with grandma.
“She was a fabulous cook and she made hot sauce at home and everyone always wanted it. Then my dad started taking over the job when she got older, tired of making it, and his friends would come to the house and fill up their empty whiskey bottles or Worcestershire bottles,” says Katie Coullard.