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Before the Refrigerator: How We Used to Get Ice
✍️ Rees, Jonathan
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Before the Refrigerator is ideal for history of technology classes, food studies classes, or anyone interested in what daily life in the United States was like between 1880 and 1930.
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It does not suit readers looking for vintage recipes, culinary techniques, or a light casual browse; this is an academic exploration of infrastructure and domestic survival. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, it is engineered for scholars, students, and dedicated food historians rather than casual cookbook enthusiasts. If you want to know how daily life functioned in the United States between 1880 and 1930 without modern cooling, this text delivers, but those seeking general kitchen inspiration should look elsewhere.
