TV dinners are such a staple of supermarket cuisine that it's hard to imagine a time when people weren't zapping prepackaged ice-cold meals. The concept was downright revolutionary when it was ...

Sometimes it really is okay to play with your food. Sink your teeth into Adega’s newest novelty item. The Wine Bar Dinner menu allows diners to reminisce about the old days of kitsch, with TV-tray ...

TV dinners didn’t just change weeknight meals, they changed culture. Convenience, portion control, and frozen variety ...

Humans have been freezing foods for ages, but Clarence Birdseye changed the game when he introduced the quick freezing method in 1924. This method, and the ensuing Birdseye company, helped push frozen ...

I remember my grandmother roasting a pork roast and potatoes, opening a can of lima beans and dividing the food among several leftover silver TV dinner trays. Covered with foil and frozen, these ...

Have you ever wondered how TV dinners came into being? You can blame Swanson Foods, of Omaha, Neb., for creating an almost entirely new industry. Other people, other companies also had something to do ...

Swanson's original TV dinner has become an iconic image of Americana. Gravy-covered slices of turkey sat on a bed of cornbread dressing (or is it stuffing?) in a partitioned aluminum tray, sides of ...