Book jacket image for Frostbite by Nicola Twilley

Penguin Press

9780735223288

STARRED REVIEW

Frostbite

Interesting, insightful and impressively intrepid, Frostbite offers compelling food for thought about the role of cold in our lives.

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Review of ‘Frostbite’

When the farm-to-table concept became widely popular 15 years ago, Nicola Twilley “got stuck on the conjunction. What about the to?” Her deeply researched and highly engaging second book, Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, invites the reader on a quest to understand “what happen[s] between the farms and the tables.”

Interview with Nicola Twilley

The Gastropod host's adventurous Frostbite takes readers into cheese caves, ice cream warehouses and the world of “refrigerator dating."

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