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Apr 11, 2021 · With David Eisenbach, Carey Latimore, Bryant Simon, Jeffrey Rodengen. Gilbert Swanson inherits his father's frozen turkey company and innovates the TV Dinner; And restaurateur Vernon Stouffer brings his frozen meals to market, while also harnesses sing a new technology called...the microwave.
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- Documentary, History
- Brad Grimm
- 2021-04-11
Apr 11, 2021 · S 2 E 10. The TV Dinner. Apr 11, 2021 | 42m 31s | tv-pg | CC. Gilbert Swanson inherits his father’s frozen turkey company and partners with a food chemist to innovate a revolutionary dinner...
- 43 min
- Precursors to The TV Dinner
- Frozen Meals Go Mass Market
- TV Dinner's Disputed Origins
- This Woman Finessed The Food Science
World War II accelerated the use of frozen meals. In 1944, Maxson Food Systems Inc. used Birdseye’s flash-freezing technology to create frozen pre-packaged dinners to be sold exclusively to military and civilian air carriers. The meals, called “Strato-Plates” or "Sky Plates," consisted of a partitioned serving of meat, a vegetable and a potato, reh...
Frozen dinners finally came to the direct consumer market in 1949 when brothers Albert and Meyer Bernstein founded Frozen Dinners Inc. under the One-Eyed Eskimo label and began selling the product exclusively in the Pittsburgh area. By 1950, the company had produced more than 400,000 dinners. By 1954, after forming the Quaker State Food Corporation...
What happened after that isn’t in question. But who provided the inspiration is. In one version of the story, Gerry Thomas, then a $200-a-month Swanson salesman just a few years into the job, recounts that he remembered seeing aluminum trays meant for frozen food while visiting a distributor’s warehouse in Pittsburgh. Inspired by the tray, Thomas s...
There’s one key player whose contributions to the TV dinner no one disputes. Shortly after 21-year-old Betty Cronin began working for the company as a bacteriologist, Swanson execs tasked her with puzzling through the science of making frozen meals actually taste good. Her primary job: to figure out how to design dinners so all the components could...
- Aaron Randle
Feb 8, 2021 · wSerie. TV Shows. The Food That Built America. Season 2. Episode 1. Pizza Wars. February 8, 2021. 0.0% The Food That Built America - S2 - E1. Mark as watched Rate Forums. In the 1950s, two brothers from Wichita, Kan., aim to build their restaurant, Pizza Hut, by introducing America to Italian dish-pizza.
Apr 10, 2021 · Available on HISTORY, Philo, Prime Video, iTunes, Disney+, Hulu, Sling TV, HISTORY Vault S2 E10: Gilbert Swanson inherits his father's frozen turkey company and partners with a food chemist to innovate a revolutionary dinner that Americans can heat up at home.
Through dramatic recreations, fascinating facts, and expert commentary, this season delves into the unbelievable stories of grit, creativity, and determination by these culinary entrepreneurs ...
Gilbert Swanson inherits his father's frozen turkey company and partners with a food chemist to innovate a revolutionary dinner that Americans can heat up at home. Starring: Campbell Scott, Adam Richman, Libby O'Connell, Yohuru Williams. Documentary • Cooking • History. TV-PG. Stream 70+ live channels and 70,000+ titles on-demand—just $25/month.
