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.

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 ...