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WI Book Festival Author Event: Frostbite (Nicola Twilley)

WI Book Festival Author Event: Frostbite (Nicola Twilley)

Saturday 10/19/24
10:30 am - 11:30 am
 – 
Central Library, Community Room 302

Presented in partnership with the Wisconsin Book Festival.

How often do we open the fridge or peer into the freezer with the expectation that we’ll find something fresh and ready to eat? It’s an everyday act—but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear and excitement. The introduction of artificial refrigeration overturned millennia of dietary history, launching a new chapter in human nutrition. We could now overcome not just rot, but seasonality and geography. Tomatoes in January? Avocados in Shanghai? All possible.

In FrostbiteNew Yorker contributor and cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod Nicola Twilley takes readers on a tour of the cold chain from farm to fridge, visiting off-the-beaten-path landmarks such as Missouri’s subterranean cheese caves, the banana-ripening rooms of New York City, and the vast refrigerated tanks that store the nation’s orange juice reserves. Today, nearly three-quarters of everything on the average American plate is processed, shipped, stored, and sold under refrigeration. It’s impossible to make sense of our food system without understanding the all-but-invisible network of thermal control that underpins it. Twilley’s eye-opening book is the first to reveal the transformative impact refrigeration has had on our health and our guts; our farms, tables, kitchens, and cities; global economics and politics; and even our environment.

In conversation with Siri Carpenter.

Copies of Frostbite will be distributed for free to all attendees courtesy of the Wisconsin Book Festival. 

Event Type:
Talks

Venue:

Madison Central Library
201 W. Mifflin St.
Madison, 53703 United States
608-266-6300
http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/central

Contact:

Wisconsin Science Festival
Wisconsin Book Festival

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