| June 28, 2024 
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 | | “We’re in the business of trying to sell a dying product,” one fruit warehouse owner tells Twilley. “It’s always a race to get it to where it needs to be before it dies.” Derek Brahney |
Dear fellow readers, I know, I know: A history of refrigeration may not sound particularly thrilling, but I promise you, Nicola Twilley’s “Frostbite” is a page-turner. Like our reviewer, I’m finding it hard to put down. I came to it knowing next to nothing about the cold chain, with no idea how those Harry’s Berries got from California to my kitchen table at the most perfect, succulent moment of ripeness. (Now I know, and have sworn to buy only local strawberries from now on.) “We’re in the business of trying to sell a dying product,” one fruit warehouse owner says. “It’s always a race to get it to where it needs to be before it dies.” Twilley adds, “Today we know more about how to lengthen an apple’s life span than a human’s.” If refrigeration isn’t your thing, well, we’ve got plenty more to tempt you with this week, including a brisk new biography of the iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, a gritty, dazzling memoir of 1970s Manhattan and a new collection from one of our finest contemporary poets. If you have time, tell us what you’re reading! (We may publish your response on our Letters page, or feature it in an upcoming newsletter.) You can email us at [email protected]. We read every letter sent. Tina Jordan
Deputy Editor, The New York Times Book Review
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