Non-Fiction Book Club: "Frostbite" by Nicola Twilley

This is our friendly, debate-style book club that meets exclusively online to discuss non-fiction books. Non-Fiction Book Club meets every other month. We will meet online only.

This month, we'll be discussing "Frostbite: how refrigeration changed our food, our planet, and ourselves" by Nicola Twilley. This book was published in 2024, and its summary is below:

"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, easily taken for granted, but just a century ago, eating food that had been refrigerated was cause for both fear and excitement. [...] In FROSTBITE, New Yorker contributor and co-host of the award-winning podcast Gastropod Nicola Twilley takes readers with her on a tour of the cold chain from farm to fridge, visiting such off-the-beaten-track landmarks as Missouri's subterranean cheese caves, the banana-ripening rooms of New York City, and the vast refrigerated tanks that store the nation's OJ reserves. Today, more than three-quarters of everything on the average American plate is processed, shipped, stored, and sold under refrigeration. It's impossible to make sense of our food system without understanding the all-but-invisible network of thermal control that underpins it. Twilley's eye-opening book is the first to reveal the transformative impact refrigeration has had on our health and our guts; our farms, tables, kitchens, and cities; global economics and politics; and even our environment."

You can order upcoming books here: https://forms.gle/9MT4Szd8S8fgw92L9 A staff member will call you when your books arrive and are ready to be picked up.

Because this book club will meet every other month, we will not meet again until December.

You may also like the following events from Youngstown Free Library:

• Next month, 10th September, 07:00 pm, Evening Book Club: "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson in Youngstown
• Next month, 16th September, 01:30 pm, Afternoon Book Club: "The Stranger in the Woods" by Michael Finkel in Youngstown

Also check out other Health & Wellness events in Hua-Lien County, Nonprofit events in Hua-Lien County.