“Breakfast food,” as a category ... who developed Corn Flakes in the late 1800s as an outgrowth of John Harvey Kellogg’s work at his Battle Creek Sanitarium, in Michigan.

The concept of breakfast food didn’t exist in the U.S. until the mid to late 1800s, according to Abigail Carroll, food historian and author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal.

It’s in the 1800s that breakfast really takes off. The Industrial Revolution ushers in the need for workers, who in turn needed heavy breakfasts, and the Second Industrial Revolution and rise of ...

She's one of the last three living individuals born in the 1800s. We spent the morning with her over a breakfast of grits and bacon and learned the secrets to what's kept her going for 115 years.