If you are a non-fiction reader and are looking for a book club please join KFPLs first ever non-fiction book club! This club meets in person at Bronzwood Golf Club located at 9645 Kinsman Pymatuning Rd, Kinsman, OH 44428 at 3:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday of every other month to discuss the latest group selection.
Meets in January, March, May, July, September & November.
Next Meeting Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025
January Book: Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley
An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our entire relationship with food—for better and for worse.
How often do we open the fridge or peer into the freezer with the expectation that we’ll find something fresh and ready to eat? It’s an everyday act, easily taken for granted, but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear and excitement. Banquets were held just so guests could enjoy the novelty of eggs, butter, and apples that had been preserved for months in cold storage—and demonstrate that such zombie foods were not deadly. The introduction of artificial refrigeration overturned millennia of dietary history, launching an entirely new chapter in human nutrition. We could now overcome not just rot, but also seasonality and geography. Tomatoes in January? Avocados in Shanghai? All possible.