The stories are indeed interesting, I give them a 9/10 for that (it's amazing how much of our gastro American culture is junk food!) but the majority of the talking heads they choose to give color commentary (with the possible exception of Adam Richman) are atrocious -- boring, redundant to what was just narrated, and most of them have voices so grating it's hard to focus on anything they're saying. Also, the re-creations are both unnecessary and dowright silly after a while -- nobody ages (ever!) and nobody ever changes their outfit! I'm sorry, but after so many episodes, that just becomes a joke. If each episode was 30 minutes and they simply stuck to the history without all the unnecessary fluff, I'd rate it much higher.
Review of The Food That Built America
