Humans have been freezing foods for ages, but Clarence Birdseye changed the game when he introduced the quick freezing method in 1924. This method, and the ensuing Birdseye company, helped push ...

Well, if you’re Gerry Thomas, salesman for C.A. Swanson & Sons and frequent air traveler ... Note: this might be the moment to mention that these were not the first frozen meals ever. In the mid-1940s ...

The Swanson family say the idea first arose in ... with Americans consuming an annual average of 72 frozen meals each year, according to statistics released by the American Frozen Food Institute.

A. Swanson & Sons frozen-food company, the brothers have cut hours from kitchen chores with nine lines of frozen pies, appetizers, meat and poultry dishes, and complete “TV Dinners,” each one ...

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. Skip to main content The Food ...