Frostbite- A Tale of the Cold Chain!
Nicola Twilley is the author of Frostbite, a book about...the Cold Chain! Nicky and I discuss in a series of videos her book, the cold chain and its future. We touch on the ‘permanent global summertime’, seamless processes and a seeming abundance of food - there’s always more where that came from..or is there? Labour shortages, energy and Insurance costs; the cold chain is the 3rd highest industrial consumer of energy.
About the book: 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. Nearly three-quarters of everything on the average American plate is processed, shipped, stored, and sold under refrigeration. It’s impossible to make sense of our food system without understanding the all-but-invisible network of thermal control that underpins it. Twilley’s eye-opening book is the first to reveal the transformative impact refrigeration has had on our health and our guts; our farms, tables, kitchens, and cities; global economics and politics; and even our environment.
