Candy - Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS® tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technol... more »ogical breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
Every year, Americans eat 7 billion tons of candy, and it all has to come from somewhere. MODERN MARVELS® goes on a real-life Willy Wonka tour into the heart of this massive industry. In Hershey, Pennsylvania, see how the cocoa bean is processed at the candy giant's latest plant. Watch a different side of the industry in action at the smaller-scale See's Candy. The traditions of the past remain plain at Schimpff's Confectionary, where they still use small kettles, natural flavors, and hand-operated equipment. Jelly beans, saltwater taffy and licorice are also on the menu, as well as exotic creations like scorpion on a stick!
Sugar - Celebrating ingenuity, invention and imagination brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS® tells the fascinating stories of the doers, dreamers and sometime-schemers who created everyday items, technological breakthroughs and man-made wonders.
The sugar industry came of age on the backs of slaves toiling in Caribbean fields, and British desire to control production of sugar and its byproduct, rum. Sugar also played a surprisingly critical part in America's battle for independence. MODERN MARVELS® tours a sugar plantation in Hawaii to get an inside look at how sugar is produced today, where a ton of harvested cane results in 200 pounds of raw sugar. Learn the technology behind creating the sweetener in all of its permutations, including corn syrup, brown sugar, powdered sugar and cube sugar, and how it's used in candies, soda and sauces, not to mention pipe tobacco and processed meat.« less