Frostbite
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Frostbite
| Full title | Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves |
|---|---|
| Author | Nicola Twilley |
| Published | 2024 |
| Pages | 394 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Nicola Twilley reports on the cold chain — the refrigerated warehouses, containers and trucks a third of the world’s food passes through — and how it rewrote what people eat and how far it travels. An invisible infrastructure with an enormous footprint, which is the kind of history I keep returning to. |
Where I heard about it
- @typesfast’s thread — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. Full set of replies: What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Food — what the cold chain reshaped.
- Supply Chain — the infrastructure itself.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.