Before the Refrigerator by Jonathan Rees

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/116580 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Before the Refrigerator Series: How Things Worked, Book 9 Author: Jonathan Rees Narrator: Gary L Willprecht Format: mp3 Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins Release date: 02-21-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: History Publisher's Summary: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor.