Nicola Twilley: Frostbite - How Refrigeration Changed Our Food and Ourselves (2nd CryoLecture) (External source: youtube.com)
How often do we open the fridge or peer into the freezer with the expectation that we’ll find something fresh and ready to eat? It’s an everyday act ─ but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear and astonishment. The introduction of artificial refrigeration overturned millennia of dietary history, transforming what we eat, where it’s grown, how it tastes, how good it is for us and for the planet—even the meaning of freshness itself. Today, nearly three-quarters of everything we eat passes through the cold chain on its way from farm to table—but most of us have never set foot inside this vast, invisible winter we’ve built for our food to live in. In her new and award-winning book, Frostbite, Nicola Twilley dives into the most important invention in the history of food and drink and makes the case for a recalibration of our relationship with the fridge.
Join us in the pre-refrigeration architecture of a lagering cellar—an appropriate location, given that the world’s first commercial refrigerating machines were built to keep beer cold!—as Nicola Twilley shares highlights from her exploration of the artificial cryosphere, followed by a conversation with Prof. Alexander Friedrich (TU Darmstadt) and audience discussion.
The event starts at 6.30 pm and takes place at Dieburger Str. 96-100 in 64287 Darmstadt in the old Brewery Tower. There will be signs leading to the room.
If you like to attend the event, please bring a warm sweater with you, as the temperature in the ice cellar is no higher than 12°C.
In case of questions, please contact info@cryocultures.org
This public event is part of the CryoLecture serie. You can watch previous CryoLectures on our YouTube channel.