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Author Brady, Amy, Ph.D., author.

Title Ice : from mixed drinks to skating rinks - a cool history of a hot commodity / Amy Brady.

Publication Info. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2023]
1 hold on first copy returned of 3 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3064025~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  553.7 BRA    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  553.7 BRA    AVAILABLE
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Description xx, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- Part 1. The birth of an obsession -- The man who would be ice king -- Blasphemous ice -- The iceman cometh -- Highways, holidays, and the cheap-ice revolution -- Part 2. Food and drink -- The inside scoop -- "Culture in a glass" -- On the rocks -- Fire and ice -- Part 3. Ice sports -- Fancy figures -- Cork-bungs, brooms, and Zambonis -- The need for speed -- Part 4. The future of ice -- Fevers, freezers, and Frankenstein -- TV dinners, Henry David Thoreau, and a swiftly warning planet -- Flammable ice -- Conclusion.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index.
Subject Ice.
ISBN 9780593422199 (hardcover)
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