Mark Kurlansky
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat. , ,Mark Kurlanskyâ€™s vibrant and affectionate narrative reveals Clarence Birdseye as a quintessential â€œcan-doâ€ American inventorâ€”his other patents include an electric sunlamp, a harpoon gun to tag finback whales, and an improved incandescent lightbulbâ€”and shows how the greatest of changes can come from the simplest of ideas and the unlikeliest of places
Nonfiction,Biography,History,Food and Drink,Food,Biography Memoir,Audiobook,Science,Business,History,Microhistory,History,Food History
Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man