Refrigerator Revolution: The Surprising Art of Keeping Cool!

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, it's all about food inventions and innovations. Nicola Twilley reveals the secret history of refrigeration, from ingenious fridge designs to Rwanda’s pioneering “coldscape.” Plus, meat scientist Chris Calkins invents new cuts of steaks, and Dan Pashman wonders if the food tech takeover is actually a bust. Finally, we share a recipe for the pope’s spaghetti.

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0:00.0	Hey Milk Street Radio listeners for our Thanksgiving episode this year.
0:03.7	I'm taking your calls with Jet Tila and Cheryl Day.
0:07.2	From sides to Pie send it's your biggest Thanksgiving cooking questions.
0:11.3	Email us at
0:15.0	again please send your Thanksgiving questions to questions at milkstreet radio.com
0:21.3	and we'll be in touch. Thanks.
0:25.0	This is Mel Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.
0:32.0	In the early 20th century, New York City was full of skyscrapers,
0:36.7	and yet we were still harvesting natural ice to keep our food cold.
0:41.2	America was seen as like the Saudi Arabia of natural ice.
0:44.4	We had so many ponds.
0:46.2	People were like, ah, this is a huge wealth.
0:49.6	But then a few years later, everything changed. That's when General Electric got in the game and they
0:55.0	were like, wow, if we can put a fridge in every home, think of all the electricity
0:59.6	will sell. Today we're investigating food innovations like how refrigeration changed our lives.
1:07.0	But first it's the hunt for new or flavorful cuts of beef.
1:12.0	If you've ever grilled a flat iron steak you can thank meat new or flavorful cuts of beef.
1:12.8	If you've ever grilled a flat iron steak,
1:14.4	you can thank meat scientist Chris Calkins.
1:16.9	In the 1990s, he was tasked with rethinking
1:19.5	the way we divide up a cow.
1:22.3	Chris, welcome to Mill Street.
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