Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice by Jonathan Rees

Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice

How Things Worked

Jonathan Rees

136 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history science informative medium-paced
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to th...

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