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...

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...

Jo Spann used to be a steak-and-potatoes, three-squares-a-day type, but as the years have gone by, the 72-year-old now finds herself snacking "all the time." A full meal now is usually a once-a-day event.Researchers say such snacking is OK _ in fact, regular nibbling can...

Jo Spann used to be a steak-and-potatoes, three-squares-a-day type, but as the years have gone by, the 72-year-old now finds herself snacking "all the time." A full meal now is usually a once-a-day event. Researchers say such snacking is OK _ in fact, regular nibbling...