How Refrigeration Changed The World

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Almost everything we eat – bananas, sushi, lettuce, beef – is part of the “cold chain,” a vast network of refrigerated warehouses, shipping containers, display cases and finally, our own refrigerators that underpin our global food system. We’ve only been able to create cold when we want it for about 150 years, but in that time, refrigeration “has changed our height, our health, and our family dynamics; it has shaped our kitchens, ports and cities; and it has reconfigured global economics and politics,” writes food and science writer Nicola Twilley in her new book, Frostbite. We’ll talk to her about how the whole system works, what it might look like in the future and why exactly your chopped salad comes in that weird little bag. Guests: Nicola Twilley, author, Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves; cohost, podcast Gastropod - and frequent contributor to the New Yorker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.5	The Supreme Court has handed down a couple of huge cases this morning,
1:32.8	including one that's likely to impact life on the streets of Bay Area Cities.
1:36.1	We'll get a quick look at the implications of this morning's decisions.
1:41.6	And then we'll step back with author Nicola Twilly to talk about her new book, Frostbite,
1:46.0	which details how almost everything we eat, banana, sushi, lettuce, beef has been transformed and enabled by the cold chain, a vast network of warehouses, shipping
1:52.6	containers, and your own fridge that underpins our global food system.
1:57.8	We'll talk to Twilly about her visits to vast underground facilities and the whole
2:01.7	artificial cryosphere. So coming up next, right after this news. Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
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