Episode 24: Refrigeration: From farm to table
When refrigerators became commonplace in our kitchens, they changed the way we shopped, cooked and ate. But home refrigerators are just “the tip of the iceberg,” as they say — the last step in a long, cold, technologically impressive supply chain of refrigerated warehouses, trucks, trains, boats and planes that brings our produce, milk, meat and more from fields, factories and slaughterhouses to our supermarkets and homes. In this episode we talk about this cold chain with Nicola Twilley, host of the Gastropod podcast and author of the book “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.”
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"If the rest of the world builds a U.S.-style cold chain, there will be no harvest to put in it because climate change will have taken care of that."
Episode guest:
Nicola Twilley
Nicola is cohost of the award-winning podcast Gastropod, which looks at food through the lens of history and science, and an award-winning contributor to The New Yorker.
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