The original TV dinner was introduced nationally by C.A. Swanson & Sons in 1954. Clarke and Gilbert Swanson, whose father had founded the company, were responding to a new social force: television. At the time, television programming was only...

Introduced in the 1930s, General Foods offered the first proto-TV dinner, which was a frozen Irish stew. Successfully reaching a larger market, Swanson manufactured pot pies in 1951, and followed four years later with their mass-marketed "TV...

A TV dinner (also called frozen dinner, microwave meal or ready meal) is a prepackaged, frozen or chilled meal which usually comes in an individual package. It requires very little preparation and contains all the elements for a single-serving meal. The...

STEPHANIE W. SEDGWICK , SPECIAL FROM THE WASHINGTON POST The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-01-2006 TV DINNER REFINED -- PREPARE AN UPSCALE OSCARS SPREAD DURING THE COMMERCIALS By STEPHANIE W. SEDGWICK , SPECIAL FROM THE WASHINGTON POST Date: 03-01-2006, Wednesday Section: FOOD...

Is there anything more anxiety-ridden than peeling back the tinfoil on top of a TV dinner tray? The moment of truth arrives: Did the gravy splash the apple cobbler? Far too often -- I estimate about half the time -- the...

It seems it was about a million years ago, in Los Angeles, California, that I was born. The epoch of mankind as hunter and gatherer was long past, the agricultural revolution had already been supplanted by the industrial revolution, and as a society we had...

The final chapter is closed on Dewey Readmore Books. The 19-year-old cat, who became a mascot for the city's library after being found in a book drop, died Wednesday in the arms of librarian Vicki Myron. The temperature was minus...