Next Episode of The Food That Built America is
Season 7 / Episode 3 and airs on 04 May 2026 02:03
For generations of Americans, 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 revolutionized food and changed the landscape of America forever. This miniseries event will tell the fascinating stories of the people behind the food that built America – those who used brains, muscle, blood, sweat and tears to get to America's heart through its stomach, and along the way built cities, invented new technologies and helped win wars.
A farmhand named Jack Daniel and a distiller in Tennessee look to bring their quality bootleg whiskey out of the shadows and into a larger market. But against the rise of temperance and prohibition in America, a novel new recipe and Daniel's revolutionary branding tactics pave the way for the best-selling American whiskey in the world.
Two pizza juggernauts expand their empires as a hungry new contender turns the fight into a three-way race to become America's biggest pizza chain.
Rival cereal giants race to invent the next must-have bowl, sparking a sugary arms race.
A struggling candy maker's botched experiment leads to the world's first bubble gum, its distinctive color, and a decades-long bubble gum war fueled by colorful mascots, comic strips, baseball cards, and novelty flavors — transforming gum into a pop culture powerhouse and reshaping the candy aisle.
Three burger operators race to serve a new generation on wheels, and a primitive intercom and sliding window evolve into the drive-thru — revolutionizing fast food and kicking off an industry arms race.
A chemist unlocks a chocolate syrup that transforms milk into a magic sensation, a scrappy soda shop owner cracks the code to bottling liquid chocolate for the masses, and a dairy innovator turns wartime surplus into instant cocoa gold.
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