The Food That Built the World

Two heavy-hitting cereal rivals duke it out for breakfast dominance. The competition heats up when an idea is stolen, beaten to the market, and is a runaway success. The ensuing battle transforms the breakfast landscape.

The top-selling candy days of the year revolve around Easter, Valentine's Day and Halloween, and they all started with a few bold pioneers.

Before chicken wings are America's favourite Sunday football snack, they are considered an undesirable cut of meat. Then two restaurateurs in Buffalo, New York, reinvent the way wings are cooked.

A cereal executive's bold idea to finance the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie kicks off a candy revolution that produces some of the most iconic, imaginative confections in history.

Two icons compete for America's coffee drinkers and forever change a worldwide, billion-dollar industry.

Eventually challenging America's burger joint heavyweights, two future fast-food kingpins find themselves on a collision course in an all-out chicken sandwich war that is still raging.

Some staples of Thanksgiving dinner aren't around until a few brands use technological advances to reinvent turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and more. These food innovators make each part of the meal accessible.

Four intrepid food entrepreneurs race to harness emerging technologies like the home freezer and microwave to bring revolutionary frozen snack icons to a waiting world. They forever change what, when and how people eat.

When an entrepreneur creates shelf-stable peanut butter out of his garage, it leads to the birth of an iconic sandwich. As competition heats up to be America's favourite peanut butter, three famous brands battle it out to be number one.

Two entrepreneurs rise from the ashes of Prohibition by staking everything on two liquors: a bitter, bottom-shelf whisky, and a flavourless foreign moonshine. They go on to save an industry and create two of the most popular brands in the country.

Henry Ford, a tinkerer named Kingsford and a passionate butcher create recognisable summer grilling brands and change the face of American backyards.

Innovators use ingenuity to create the most nostalgic drink products and thirst quenchers, leading the charge on a billion-dollar beverage industry.

At the turn of the 20th century, Bernard Kroger and another upstart grocer come up with genius innovations that help invent the modern supermarket.

A young upstart named Oscar Mayer creates one of the most iconic meat brands on the planet, while pioneer Jay Hormel invents a meat product sold the world over, which becomes part of a $20 billion food empire.

At a time when dog food is a rarity and cat food is almost nonexistent, it takes visionary innovators to invent the first dog treat, dry food, the first cat food, and many more innovations that carve out the billion-dollar pet food industry.

At a time when U.S. beer is dominated by the same lager style, one Milwaukee company experiments with something new.