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Refrigerator - The Story of Cool in the Kitchen (Hardcover)
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Refrigerator - The Story of Cool in the Kitchen (Hardcover)
Series: Science Museum
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Humans have been preserving food for millennia, but the
refrigerator is a relatively new addition to our homes. Just before
the Second World War, only 3 per cent of British households had
one. In the interim years the fridge has become accepted as a
taken-for-granted necessity blending into the household environment
- background noise in the general hum of the kitchen. This book
explores the history of refrigeration and how the fridge has become
an essential appliance in our homes today.Refrigeration
technologies - essentially a completely new method of preserving
and transporting all manner of perishable goods - had a profound
impact on society from the nineteenth century onwards. Helen
Peavitt leads us through the rooms, cabinets and boxes used to keep
food, drink and other substances cool, their prime refrigerating
function driven by mechanical means or, in earlier times, ice.The
story of the refrigerator encompasses tales of scientific
discovery, applied technology, power and steam engines; ice
harvesting; industrial design and production; popular culture and
taste; public health and hygiene; changing climate; technological
aversion, danger and the odd dalliance with environmental
catastrophe. The book also explores the advertising and marketing
of domestic fridges, and the ways patterns of food consumption have
changed over the decades thanks to home refrigeration. Today our
domestic refrigerators are food hubs: the nexus from which we plan
our meals, store foods and focus our eating habits. Strikingly
illustrated, Refrigerator: The Story of Cool in the Kitchen is an
informative and often entertaining history of an object that has
changed the way we eat and live. Published in association with the
Science Museum, London.
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