
Eat: The Story of Food
Food has driven nearly everything we've done as a species, yet it's an overlooked aspect of human history. Whether for meat or sugar, snacks or beer, humanity's appetite has altered the planet, shaped our history, changed our future and made us "us".
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- 2014-2014
- 1 season
- National Geographic Channel
- Documentary
Food has driven nearly everything we've done as a species, yet it's an overlooked aspect of human history. Whether for meat or sugar, snacks or beer, humanity's appetite has altered the planet, shaped our history, changed our future and made us "us".
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Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1
Food Revolutionaries
Fri, Nov 21, 2014 45 mins
Christopher Columbus. Julia Child. Clarence Birdseye. These are some of the revolutionary men and women who have changed what and how we eat, remaking not just food history but human history. Some of these food revolutionaries are well known, others obscure. But one thing they have in common is that they have fundamentally shaped how we live today.

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