Full name: Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

Author: Mark Kurlansky Year: 2012 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385527057 9780767930307 0385527055 0767930304

While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat. Mark Kurlansky's vibrant and affectionate narrative reveals Clarence Birdseye as a quintessential "can-do" American inventor-his other patents include an electric sunlamp, a harpoon gun to tag finback whales, and an improved incandescent lightbulb-and shows how the greatest of changes can come from the simplest of ideas and the unlikeliest of places Similar books: The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe by Elaine Showalter An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami That Woman by Anne Sebba Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel Nightingales by Gillian Gill Looking for Lorraine by Imani Perry Five Sisters by James Fox The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy Who Was Christopher Columbus? by Bonnie Bader Mrs. Jordan's Profession by Claire Tomalin Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Who Was Sacagawea? by Judith Bloom Fradin Love, Fiercely by Jean Zimmerman Frida by Hayden Herrera Ava's Man by Rick Bragg The Real Jane Austen by Paula Byrne Book of Ages by Jill Lepore Rin Tin Tin by Susan Orlean