Special Episode: Nicola Twilley & Frostbite
This Podcast Will Kill You
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
For much of the world, refrigeration is such a commonplace technology that we rarely stop to wonder at the many ways it has transformed our lives. From the foods we grow to where we grow them, from how they taste to what we eat, refrigeration has dramatically - and quite recently - changed our relationship to food, our health, and the environment. As Nicola Twilley describes in Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, progress, as it so often does, comes at a cost. Twilley, who also cohosts the award-winning food podcast Gastropod, joins us in this week’s TPWKY book club episode to discuss the surprising history and tenuous future of refrigeration. You’ll never look at your fridge the same way again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. This is exactly right. The The |
| 0:23.6 | The Hi, I'm Erin Welsh, and this is, this podcast will kill you. |
| 0:53.4 | Welcome to another episode in the TPWKY Book Club |
| 0:58.1 | series. If you haven't tuned into one of these episodes before, you are in for a treat, because this |
| 1:04.3 | series is where I get to chat with authors of popular science and medicine books about their latest |
| 1:09.4 | work, where they get their inspiration, |
| 1:11.8 | the strangest thing they learned, and how their book helps us to better understand ourselves |
| 1:17.3 | and the world around us. We have featured some just fantastic books so far this season, |
| 1:22.7 | so if you'd like to take a look at the full list of book club books for this season, past seasons, |
| 1:28.3 | and any future ones on our list, head to our website, this podcast will kill you.com. |
| 1:34.2 | Under the extras tab, you'll find a link to our bookshop.org affiliate page, |
| 1:38.3 | which includes a bunch of podcast-related lists, including one for this book club series. |
| 1:43.9 | I am always updating this list to include the one for this book club series. I am always updating this list |
| 1:45.8 | to include the topics of future book club episodes, so check back in regularly if you're the |
| 1:51.4 | type who likes to read ahead. As always, we love hearing from you all, so if you have anything |
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| 2:25.9 | Okay, now on to our thrilling and chilling book of the week. |
| 2:31.4 | How many times a day do you open your fridge to peer inside? Maybe you're taking a |
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