Over 100 years ago in the mid-1910s, Canadian-born businessman James L. Kraft found a way to turn leftover scraps of cheddar into a smooth, spreadable cheese with a longer shelf life and ...

Why did get it invented? And is there really cheese in Cheez Whiz? James L. Kraft was born in 1874 in Stevensville, Ontario on a dairy farm. When he was 28 years old, he immigrated to the United ...

By The Numbers: From Soup to Nuts In 1903 James L. Kraft started selling cheese from a horse-drawn wagon. Today Kraft Foods is the world's second-largest food company.