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Mr. Food Timeline |
| 1976 |
 Butcher-turned-caterer/actor
Art Ginsburg creates and begins broadcasting his quick
'n' easy television vignette. |
| 1980 |
Art self-syndicates his 90-second Mr. Food vignette
to
9 television markets. |
| 1982 |
 King
World begins nationally syndicating the show. "Mr. Food" is now aired in more than 120 markets and reaches
3 to 4 million daily viewers nationwide. |
| 1989 |
 William Morrow & Company signs
Mr. Food to what will be the first of numerous cookbook
contracts. |
| 1993 |
Mr. Food is among the first authors to appear on the
QVC shopping network, selling 8,000 copies of the first
two quick 'n' easy Mr. Food cookbooks in just minutes! |
| 1994 |
 The
Mr. Food headquarters expands to encompass a state-of-the-art
television studio, test kitchen, and production and publishing
offices in Fort Lauderdale. |
| 1995 |
 as spoken by Mr. Food, is registered by the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office as one of just 25 copyrighted sound
marks. |
| 1998 |
The Mr. Food “ooh-so-easy” recipe continuity
program is launched by Oxmoor House, a division of Time
Inc., making it one of the most successful programs
of its kind for Oxmoor House. |
| 1999 |
 The
annual Mr. Food cookbook series, also published by Oxmoor
House, is launched. |
| 2000 |
 The
American Diabetes Association (ADA) partners with the
Mr. Food team to create Mr. Food's Quick & Easy Diabetic Cooking. The cookbook
goes on to become one of the ADA’s all-time best-sellers,
with the same title translated into Spanish, a second
Mr. Food/ADA title released in 2002, and a third in
2006. |
| 2001 |
 The
popular online recipe site www.mrfood.com also becomes
an
e-commerce site offering Mr. Food cookbooks and products. |
| 2002 |
 The
Mr. Food Holiday Special is produced and distributed in
conjunction with Panasonic and aired by TV affiliates
across the country. |
| 2003 |
mrfood.com
adds new product lines, expanding its offering of timesaving
kitchen products and unique gift items, and continually
offering more services to everyone who loves food! |
| 2003- 2006 |
Mr. Food and his test kitchen team focus on developing specialty cookbooks for other entities, including Panasonic, Eggland's Best, Domino Sugar, Salad Savoy, Rodale Inc., American Media, Inc. and others. |
| 2006 |
 Chicken
Soup for the Soul: Mr. Food Recipes for Busy Moms is one of three new Mr. Food cookbooks released this year.
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| 2007 |
Mr. Food celebrates 25 years of syndication success
with King World and more than 30 years on the air! |
| 2008 |
mrfood.com is relaunched, now including video of the daily news segment and an expanded e-commerce area.
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| 2009 |
The Best of Mr. Food Homestyle Quickies cookbook is released, bringing the total number of cookbooks in the Mr. Food library to 44!
The Mr. Food brand continues to grow stronger, launching an e-newsletter and representing new products and entities. |