Salt by Mark Kurlansky7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Read More >įind On: Indiebound (Hardcover), Powells (Hardcover), Amazon (Hardcover), Barnes & Noble (Hardcover), Indiebound (Paperback), Powells (Paperback), Amazon (Paperback), Barnes & Noble (Paperback), Amazon (Kindle), Barnes & Noble (Nook). This biography-perfect for middle-grade readers-tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and is adapted from Mark Kurlansky’s adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man.Īdventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start the company that still bears his name today. ![]() Today Clarence Birdseye seems on the one hand very old fashioned but on the other curiously modern. The story of an odd man of imagination who changed the world of food. They also used it to preserve the wondrous 1,000-year-old egg, which takes about 100 days to make, and will keep for another 100 daysgive or take, evidently, 365,000 days. Each edition includes an 8-page black-and-white photo insert. Salt enters written history (as so many things do) with the Chinese, who had the first known salt works, imposed the first known salt tax, and fought the first known salt war. Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Foodĭelacorte Books for Young Readers Simultaneously available in a hardcover and trade paperback edition. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. ![]()
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