The Food That Built America

For generations around the world, food titans like Henry Heinz, Milton Hershey, John and Will Kellogg, C.W. Post and the McDonald brothers have literally been household names, but you don’t know their stories. Before they were brand names, they were brilliant, sometimes ruthless, visionaries who revolutionised food and changed the landscape forever. This miniseries event will tell the fascinating stories of the people behind the food that built the world – those who used brains, muscle, blood, sweat and tears to get to America’s heart, and then across the world’s, through its stomach, and along the way built cities, invented new technologies and helped win wars. (History Channel)