A small-time St. Louis soda maker, Charles Leiper Grigg, takes on Coke and Pepsi by introducing a clear, lemon-lime soda he calls 7-Up; at the same time, two brothers in Tennessee, Ali and Barney Hart ...

The Costa Rican jungle is basically nature's candy store, bursting with delicious guanabana, cainito, cas, pejibaye, and cacao, which is known to some as the fruit of the gods.