There really was a Clarence Birdseye (1886-1956). If he hadn't visited the Arctic, there may never have been frozen TV dinners. Now he is recognized as a major innovator in the food industry. As a young scientist working in the frozen North, it didn't...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Clarence "Bob" Birdseye attended Amherst College for two years before leaving in 1912 in order to indulge his spirit of adventure by fur-trading and trapping in Labrador, Canada. Birdseye returned to Labrador in 1916 with...

1886-1956 American businessman and inventor whose name became synonymous with frozen foods. Clarence Birdseye was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a naturalist from early on, but turned to business when he found that he lacked the funds to finish his...

Clarence Birdseye (December 9, 1886 - October 7, 1956) was an American inventor who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food...

Sales of frozen food began in a small way in the 1860s, but the father of today's frozen food business was an American naturalist with the improbable name of Clarence Birdseye. Intelligent and insatiably curious, at the age of ten he was trapping...

Is the frozen food industry too bewildered or satisfied to improve? Gene Hoffman pays a visit to The Mountain and comes back with challenging questions, and some ideas. Gather round me, all you warriors who've chosen frozen for your foods of choice....