Birdseye : : the Adventures of a Curious man

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Call Number: 921 Birdseye, Clarence
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	921 Birdseye, Clarence	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Prologue: a curious end -- A nineteenth-century man -- Bugs begins -- Bob goes West -- Ticks -- Frozen -- Freezing -- The idea -- The deal -- The magic -- The inventor -- Beyond the sunset and the baths.
From the author who gave us" Cod," "Salt," and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture.

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interesting submitted by unknown on July 7, 2012, 9:22pm Thought that My Birdseye was known only for frozen foods. This book tells us about the genius at work. He invented things that he needed to get to the next step. Not much is know about his personal life Kurlansky follows Birdseye's patents and professional papers to put together a most interesting story