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- McDonald's
- McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, breakfasts and soft drinks. More recently, it also offers salads, fruit, snack wraps, and carrot sticks. The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by siblings...
- KFC
- KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, known mainly for its fried chicken. KFC has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. since 2002.
The company was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in 1952, with the abbreviate...
- Nestle
- Nestlé is a multinational packaged food company founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland. It resulted from a merger in 1905 between the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company for milk products established in 1866 by the Page Brothers in Cham, Switzerland and the Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé Co...
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- History of agriculture
- Agriculture was developed at least 10,000 years ago, and it has undergone significant developments since the time of the earliest cultivation. Evidence points to the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East as the site of the earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants that had previously been gathe...
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- Fad Diets Through the Years
- Timeline of different diets that were popular in the U.S. through the years. Some have flowed in and out of popularity, some are variations of one another, while others may just seem scientifically questionable. Nevertheless, dieting continues to be a daily struggle for Americans.
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- History of Food
- [Photo: Foods from plant sources]
Food is any substance, usually composed primarily of carbohydrates, fats, water and/or proteins, that can be eaten or drunk by an animal or human for nutrition or pleasure. Items considered food may be sourced from plants, animals or other categories such as fung...
- Farm to Pharm
- A timeline of events and stories related to the development of 'functional food', additives, flavourings and other engineered foods in post-WW2 Britain.
- History of Beer
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Beer is the world's oldest and most popular alcoholic beverage. It is produced by the fermentation of sugars derived from starch-based material — the most common being malted barley; however, wheat, corn, and rice are also widely used, usually in conjunction with barley. Less wide...