The Food That Built America Season 2

The Food That Built America Season 2 is currently streaming on and , and it treats its subject with more rigour than the format usually demands. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. With 37 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, The Food That Built America Season 2 earns its spot. The Food That Built America Season 2 resists the urge to oversimplify a subject that deserves better. Season 2 of The Food That Built America includes 16 episodes. It aired from February 2021 to June 2021. This season stars Campbell Scott, Adam Richman and Jason Liebig. Campbell Scott and Adam Richman lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2021. What elevates The Food That Built America Season 2 above most documentary work is a refusal to settle for the easy version of the story. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

For viewers who want their entertainment to leave them with something, The Food That Built America Season 2 delivers on both counts. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. The access the production gets is remarkable, and the storytelling does full justice to it. Worth watching in order, from the beginning.

🎬 The Food That Built America Season 2 — Episode Guide

Pizza Wars

2021-02-09

In the 1950s, two brothers from Wichita, Kan., aim to build their restaurant, Pizza Hut, by introducing America to Italian dish-pizza. Americans soon fall in love with their pizza, but rival, Domino's, threatens to derail their success.

The Chocolate Rush

2021-02-14

In 1919, Milton Hershey is king of the chocolate, but everything changes when sugar prices drop in the new post-WWI era. Competitors spring up, including Hershey's former employee HB Reese, who goes on to create one of the bestselling candies ever.

The Kings of Burgers

2021-02-21

In the 1950s, Ray Kroc franchises McDonald's nationwide, but right behind Kroc, a wave of other entrepreneurs try to cash in on the fast-food restaurant craze. Two Florida visionaries start up what will become Kroc's biggest rival, by re-inventing their kitchen's equipment into the pioneering "flame...

American Cheese

2021-02-28

At the turn of the 20th century, James Kraft challenges centuries of cheese-making tradition and forever alters the dairy industry with his new cheese innovation. Meanwhile, the Pabst brothers are desperate to keep their successful beer empire solvent through Prohibition.

Cola Wars

2021-03-07

In the 1970s, one major cola brand launches a blind taste test marketing plan that takes direct aim at their biggest competitor. As a new era of competition heats up between the behemoth brands, each side selects a new leader who takes the companies to battle in a rivalry that will birth countless i...

Chip Dynasties

2021-03-14

Herman Lay takes regional and small-time chips business to a national scale with his cutting-edge sales techniques and world-changing packaging technology, while a rival innovator invents a new kind of snack chip that will challenge Lay's crown.

Cookie Wars

2021-03-21

A business partnership gone wrong leads Adolphus Green to create one of the most iconic cookie and cracker companies in history, and revolutionize packaging.

Soup Wars

2021-03-28

The fascinating stories of the families behind the food that built America, those who used brains, muscle, blood, sweat and tears to get to America's heart through its stomach, those who invented new technologies and helped win wars.

Godfathers of Fast Food

2021-04-04

A short order chef invents the hamburger bun and engineers a new way of making a burger faster than ever before; Nathan Handwerker invests his life savings into a hot dog stand at Coney Island.

E10

The TV Dinner

2021-04-11

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 o...

E11

Ice Cream Empires

2021-04-18

A young boy accidentally discovers a frozen treat on a stick, and grows up to bring an endearing classic to the world. Plus, a candy store owner radically re-invents ice cream and launches the first ever ice cream truck. But when both men own a patent on the same thing, the resulting battle will des...

E12

A Game of Chicken

2021-05-31

In the 1970's, Ray Kroc is far ahead of the competition. But when a burger chain claiming to be king poaches his third-highest ranking executive, Don Smith, it's war. Smith re-engineers the emerging rival, using the best ideas of his former franchise to modernize the brand. In an unprecedented move,...

E13

When the Chips Are Down

2021-06-06

As C.E. Doolin and Herman Lay are out to prove the potential of the chips business in the 1950's, their success inspires one of the biggest companies in the world to enter the chip market. When a chemist begins work on a secret project, designing a strong, saddle-shaped chip and a revolutionary cont...

E14

The Rise of a Rival

2021-06-13

When candy company president Charles Guth gets shafted by a Cola salesman, he decides to buy a bankrupt rival company and go to war with the supplier who wronged him and its new CEO, the maverick businessman Robert Woodruff. The battle will help shape the world of soda for decades to come.

E15

Gum Slingers

2021-06-20

William Wrigley stumbles upon a new product that will kickstart a revolution across industries, but not before sparking a life-long rivalry.

E16

Breakfast Barons

2021-06-27

Dr. John Kellogg and his brother start a revolution in breakfast, while rival C.W. Post takes direct aim at an empire of his own. And the creation of an iconic food comes at a cost, as the brothers’ relationship reaches a boiling point under the weight of their success.

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