| Title Statement |
Ice: from mixed drinks to skating rinks--a cool history of a hot commodity / Amy Brady. |
| Alternative Title(s) |
From mixed drinks to skating rinks--a cool history of a hot commodity |
| Author |
Brady, Amy |
| Publication |
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,[2023]©2023 |
| Extent of Item |
xx, 312 pages |
| ISBN |
9780593422199 (hardcover) |
| Other Number |
pr06990753 |
| Contents |
Introduction --Part 1. The birth of an obsession --The man who would be ice king --Blasphemous ice --The iceman cometh --Highways, holidays, and the cheap-ice revolution --Part 2. Food and drink --The inside scoop --"Culture in a glass" --On the rocks --Fire and ice --Part 3. Ice sports --Fancy figures --Cork-bungs, brooms, and Zambonis --The need for speed --Part 4. The future of ice --Fevers, freezers, and Frankenstein --TV dinners, Henry David Thoreau, and a swiftly warning planet --Flammable ice --Conclusion. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-297) and index. |
| Summary |
The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation--from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today--and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. |
| Subjects & Genres |
| By Topic |
Ice |
| Ice--History |
| Ice--History--United States |
| Ice--Social aspects--United States |
