On this episode of Our American Stories when -year-old Hector Boiardi arrived at Ellis Island from Italy in he couldn't have imagined that his face would one day appear on supermarket shelves across America After becoming a celebrated chef he turned his restaurant's most popular takeout meals into one of the country's most recognizable food brands forever changing the way Americans ate Italian food During World War II Chef Boyardee's factories stopped making food for grocery stores and began producing military rations around the clock making his company one of the largest suppliers of meals to American and Allied troops [... more]