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'Roughly three-quarters of our food passes through some kind of refrigeration
on its journey from harvest to supermarket.
Yet our understanding of that journey, the "cold chain" process, is a
little-understood part of our food supply.
"Even the most ardent foodies and chefs … they might have been to a farm, they
might even have been to a slaughterhouse, but the chances they've been to a
refrigerated warehouse are really, really slim," Nicola Twilley, author of
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet and Ourselves,
tells ABC Radio National's
Blueprint for Living.
"I don't think you can understand what it is we eat and why until you
understand refrigeration."
And your home refrigerator is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the
cold chain process, Twilley says.
So this summer, as you struggle to fit Christmas leftovers into the fridge,
spare a thought for the complex chain of events that led to that food being in
your fridge in the first place.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
