Food and Drink

George and Richard Cadbury moved their chocolate works out of Birmingham city smog into a garden factory and built the village of ...

Milton Hershey placed his milk chocolate plant in Pennsylvania dairy country and built an entire town with it, with streets named ...

Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease on a small Dublin brewery in 1759 and brewed ale, then the stout that conquered the worl...

J C Jacobsen brewed his first lager on a Valby hillside outside Copenhagen in 1847. In 1883 Emil Christian Hansen isolated pure la...

Henry J Heinz grew from horseradish peddled from a garden into a global condiment empire headquartered on Pittsburgh North Side, i...

John Jameson set up on Bow Street in Dublin in 1780 and by the 19th century ran one of the largest distilleries in the world. The ...

William Bass built his brewery on the well water of Burton upon Trent, perfect for pale ale, and the town became the brewing capit...

W K Kellogg turned Sanitarium health food experiments into the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906. The plant made bre...

The flagship brewery in the Soulard district of St. Louis, rooted in the Bavarian Brewery that Eberhard Anheuser took over around ...

The Burghers Brewery of Plzen, where Bavarian brewer Josef Groll produced the first golden pale lager in 1842 using soft local wat...