The history of salsa sauce dates back to the Inca people. The sauce (a combination of peppers, tomatoes, and other spices) dates back to the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas. The Spanish first found tomatoes after their conquest of Mexico in 1519-1521, which marked the beginning of the history of salsa sauce.

Aztec lords combined tomatoes with chili peppers, ground pumpkin seeds and consumed them mainly as a condiment served on turkey, venison, lobster, and fish. Later, Alonso de Molina called this combined sauce in 1571.

Charles E. Erath of New Orleans was the first person in salsa history to start making Louisiana extract, Red Hot Creole Pepper sauce in 1916. A year later, La Victoria Foods began. Salsa Brava in Los Angeles.

In 1923 in Louisiana, Baumer Foods began making Crystal Hot Sauce, and in 1928 Bruce Foods began making Original Louisiana Hot Sauce, two sauce brands that still exist today.

In 1941, Henry Tanklage formed La Victoria Sales Company to market a new line of La Victoria sauce. He introduced red and green tacos and enchilada sauces, the first of the spicy salsa sauces in the United States. He took over the entire operation of La Victoria in 1946, which makes ten different hot sauces that now span the entire salsa spectrum, including Salsa de Chile Verde and Salsa de Salsa Roja.

According to the History of Hot Sauce, sauce making in Texas began in 1947 with David and Margaret Pace and their hot sauce. In 1952, La Victoria Foods launched the first commercial taco sauce in the United States, and in 1955, La Preferida launched a line of sauces.

In 1975, Arizona's Patti Swidler released Desert Rose Salsa. Four years later, in Austin, Texas, Dan Jardine began producing the commercial Jardine sauce, which gave Austin a reputation in Salsa sauce history as the hot sauce capital of America. Another Texas company, El Paso Chili Company, was founded in 1980 by Norma and W. Park Kerr. In 1986 Miguel's Stowe Away in Vermont launched a sauce line and in April 1986 Sauces & Salsas Ltd. began manufacturing the Montezuma brand of sauces and hot pepper sauces in Ohio.

Between 1985 and 1990, sales of Mexican salsa increased by seventy-nine percent; between 1988 and 1992, the percentage of US households purchasing salsa increased from 16 to 36. In 1992, the top eight salsa manufacturers in salsa history were Pace, Old El Paso, Frito-Lay, Chi- Chi's, La Victoria, Ortega, Herdez and Newman's Own. In 1993, competition from smaller salsa companies was so fierce that Pace, Old El Paso and six other brands saw Texas sales drop 3%.

The big news in 1994 was the purchase of two of the largest companies in the Fiery Foods industry. Number one sauce maker Pace Foods was sold to the Campbell Soup Company for an astronomical sum of $ 1.1 billion.

Some of the best sauces ever produced in the history of salsa sauce

Jose Goldstein Garlic Artichoke Sauce contains artichokes from Spain with mouth-watering California garlic. Success guaranteed with a bag of crisps or your favorite meat. Great pasta too!