Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice
- ISBN-10
- 1421424592
- ISBN-13
- 9781421424590
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 121
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-03
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Jonathan Rees
Description
How to harvest ice -- How to manufacture ice -- How ice (and the perishable food it preserved) make it to consumers -- How ice changed the American diet and American life -- How household refrigerators changed the ice market forever
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