The Food That Built America: Let Them Eat Snack Cakes (S3EP11 History Sun May 8, 2022)

Let Them Eat Snack Cakes: When a New York bakery entrepreneur dies unexpectedly, his wife Martha Entenmann takes over and turns the business into a national powerhouse. Meanwhile, a married couple has bankrupted one bakery, but they are determined to succeed the second time around with an innovative approach to sell snack cakes, including their famous oatmeal crème pie.

Airdate: Sun May 8, 2022 at 21:00 on History

Season 3 Episode 11

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.