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Join this book club to discuss nature-focused reads each month. You'll also learn how to become more ecologically-minded through activities and speakers designed to enhance our reading. Age 18 and up.
This month, join us to discuss Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley at Lower Cascades Park (2851 Old State Road 37, Bloomington). Please contact Maggie Hutt at mhutt@mcpl.info if you have any questions about this program.
Summary:
"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. In Frostbite, New 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."
