Michael Bywater

Caves of ice

Chilled, Tom Jackson’s enthralling history of how refrigeration changed the world, takes us from Mesopotamian ice-houses to the Large Hadron Collider

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  • Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World, and Might Do So Again

    Tom Jackson

    Bloomsbury, pp. 223

Summertime, and the living is… variable. Depends who you ask. People come to mind, of course: one in hospital, waiting for an MRI scan; another just come out of hospital having had two little frosted ova thawed out and implanted, so with a bit of luck she’ll have a baby at last.

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