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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
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A snappy, sharp history of one of humanity's great inventions. This one will make you look at your fridge in a whole new way.
Winner of the James Beard Award for Literary Writing
"Engrossing...hard to put down." — The New York Times Book Review
“Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done.” — Mary Roach, author of Fuzz and Stiff
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how ...
"Engrossing...hard to put down." — The New York Times Book Review
“Frostbite is a perfectly executed cold fusion of science, history, and literary verve . . . as a fellow nonfiction writer, I bow down. This is how it's done.” — Mary Roach, author of Fuzz and Stiff
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how ...
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