The Food That Built America
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The Food That Built America
It takes bold visionaries risking everything to create some of the most recognizable brands on the planet. The Food That Built America, based on the hit documentary series from The HISTORY® Channel, tells the extraordinary true stories of industry titans like Henry Heinz, Milton Hershey, t...
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A Dish Best Served Soft
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Do or Donut
Post-World War Two, a food entrepreneur sees promise in a new business. In 1948, William Rosenberg notices two of his offerings selling better than an...
A Cold One
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Submarine Warfare
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Once You Pop
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Cookie Wars
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A Game of Chicken
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Gum Slingers
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Announcing: The Food That Built America Season 2
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Colonel Sanders’ First Stand
During the Great Depression, a Kentucky businessman named Harlan Sanders started selling fried chicken out of the tiny kitchen inside his gas station....
The Great Chocolatiers
With his iconic milk chocolate bar, Milton Hershey transformed an exotic luxury into an affordable indulgence for millions of Americans. Then he went...
The Chips That Took Over the Snack World
In different corners of the country in the 1930s, ambitious entrepreneurs Charles Elmer Doolin and Herman Lay launched two products — Fritos corn chip...
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The 57 Varieties of Henry Heinz
After suffering through bankruptcy and imprisonment in his early 20s, a young entrepreneur named Henry Heinz made his own version of a popular sauce k...
For the Love of Pizza
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INTRODUCING: The Food that Built America
It takes bold visionaries risking everything to create some of the most recognizable brands on the planet. The Food That Built America, based on the h...