Kikkoman Corp. Chief Executive Yuzaburo Mogi remembers the blank stares when his company first took its hallmark product -- soy sauce -- from Japan across the Pacific 50 years ago. Most Americans ...

I talked to Brown recently about the tyranny of "guilty pleasures," and lowering the bar. This conversation has been condensed and edited. I feel like this pandemic has made cooks of all of us.

Samuel Rigu is coy about the secret potion he adds to his fertiliser, revealing only that the brown liquid is called "Safi Proprietary Enhancement Formula". He's less shy about the results.