The Food That Built America · SEASON 2

The TV Dinner

Episode 10 · 2021-04-11

★ 8.0
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Season 2Episode 10★ 8.0/10
  • Documentary

Episode overview

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... they call it the TV Dinner. And when a restauranteur named Vernon Stouffer tries to bring his frozen meals to market, he's blown out of the water by the TV Dinner... until he harnesses a new technology called...the microwave.

43 minutes

Season 2 episodes