A ‘Global Cold Rush’ Is Reshaping the Planet, and How the World Eats
“You really don't need to have a tomato in December,” Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite, says on this week’s Zero. “Just don't do it.”
Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves.
Photographer: Tim Fadek for Bloomberg Markets
The “cold chain” that delivers our food is inconspicuous but vast. The US alone boasts around 5.5 million cubic feet of refrigerated space (that’s 150 Empire State Buildings!) and three-quarters of the average American plate has spent some time in a commercial fridge. Now, the developing world is catching up.
Nicola Twilley, author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, says this expansion of the world’s “distributed winter” has wide-ranging climate implications.