Every retail bottle of Kikkoman sold in the US is brewed in Walworth, Wisconsin. Has been since 1973. It's the highest producing soy sauce plant in the world. Before it opened, the soybeans and wheat were grown in America, shipped to Japan, brewed for six months, shipped back across the Pacific in b...
The soy sauce packet in your takeout bag isn't soy sauce. The biggest maker, Kari-Out in New Jersey, lists water, salt, hydrolyzed soy and corn protein, caramel color and sodium benzoate. No fermentation, no brewing. It's made in a couple of days by boiling defatted soy meal in hydrochloric acid, ne...
