| Battle Creek, Michigan is called the Cereal Bowl of America. Battle Creek produces more breakfast cereal than any other city in the world. In 1897, C.W. Post based his cereal business, Postum Cereal Company, in Battle Creek. He introduced Grape-Nuts cereal, one of the first ready-to-eat cold cereals. In 1898, William. H. Danforth created Ralston Hot Cereal and founded the Ralston Purina Company in Battle Creek. In 1906, William Keith Kellogg began commercial production of Toasted Corn Flakes cereal at his Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flakes Company. [web] |