The Food That Built America

"The Food That Built America" tells the astonishing stories behind the foods and food services we enjoy and take for granted today. Each episode plays out dramatic and engaging tales involving historical events, breakthroughs in manufacturing technology, packaging and distribution challenges, wavering public opinions, ruthless corporate battles, marketing genius, and boom or bust luck. Most impressive is the courage, perseverance, and ingenuity of the individual Americans behind so many of the iconic products and companies that are still around. I find myself saying, "Wow!" multiple times every episode. This is a truly great series, and I'm so glad I came across it on my library's free streaming service.

Everyone and all of us love and enjoy food and with this new "History Channel" series called "The Food that Built America" it's very historical and informative as it tells how many of our favorites snacks were developed plus it tells the background and start of many famous tycoons. Spotlighted are fast food giants like McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King. And the soda giants like Pepsi and Coke are featured. And interesting is seeing history and coming about of snack kings Hershey, Kellogg, Post, and Lays. Overall if you like history and want to know the pop culture of products and like to eat then watch this series it will fill you up just right!

The narrator of this very entertaining story is Campbell Scott, he is one if not the best at telling stories, love all the background stories on the major characters, a well deserved 10

"The Food that Built America" is another in the series about how American was "built". Previous series include "The Men Who Built America" (2012), "How Booze Built America" (2017), and "The Men Who Built America: The Frontiersmen" (2018). Each one is exceptional as is this one.

Just right. Adding dramatisation to the storytelling of great American food brands... really works. The Food that Built America may not be one of the best documentaries ever made - but it is certainly is one of the more entertaining.

Suitability Schneider, Grim and Withe deliver a "fast food" approach to the documentary format - you keep wanting to come back for more. It's interesting, easy viewing and entertaining.

Adding to merit; it is, arguably, appealing to those who normally avoid documentaries and so manages to spread knowledge to a broader audience.

Well done.