The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--From the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today--and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet.
Brady also explores the surprising present-day uses of ice in sports, medicine, and sustainable energy--including cutting-edge cryotherapy breast-cancer treatments and new refrigerator technologies that may prove to be more energy efficient--underscoring how precious this Commodity is, especially in an age of climate change..
But Ice doesn\'t end in the past.
In Ice , journalist and historian Amy Brady shares the strange and storied two-hundred-year-old History of ice in America: From the introduction of Mixed Drinks on the rocks, to the nation\'s first-ever indoor ice rink, to how delicacies like ice creams and iced tea revolutionized our palates, to the ubiquitous ice machine in every motel across the US.
Ice on-demand has so revolutionized modern life that it\'s easy to forget that it wasn\'t always this way--and to overlook what aspects of society might just melt away as the planet warms.
Most refrigerators owned by Americans feature automatic ice machines.
Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off the heat of a hot summer day.
Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes.
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--From the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today--and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet
