Few people write songs about pizza and beer, chocolate and peanut butter, or gin and juice. Foie gras and Sauternes? Forget it. Yet dozens–just a rough estimate–of hits and near hits have referenced ...

He started out in the 1960s as a Royal Crown Cola route deliveryman in Rome, Ga. By the time Jerry Smith had closed out his nearly four-decade career, he had helped propel the soft drink company into ...

Charles Hardin of Edmonson County inspects vats used to make premix for various soft drinks. Hardin, a lab technician, mixes most of the syrups, which are packaged in 3- and 5-gallon boxes. Photo by ...

Dark untruths about restaurant sources are revealed in Farm to Fable, the first story in a must-read series. Secrets are uncovered in abalone poaching off the coast of South Africa, while a writer ...