This article explores the 'cold chain' process, the journey food takes from harvest to supermarket through refrigerated warehouses, shipping containers, and even refrigerated ships. Author Nicola Twilley highlights the crucial role refrigeration plays in our food supply and its impact on climate change.
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 .A weekly rummage through essential cultural ingredients for a good life: design, architecture, food, travel, and fashion.
'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, says. '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. While researching for her book, Twilley spent time working with Americold, one of the largest providers of temperature-controlled warehouse space. The cold chain process refers to the series of refrigerated warehouses, shipping containers and entirely refrigerated ships that food passes through before it reaches consumers. And while refrigeration is an aspect of life that we take for granted, Twilley says our ability to create artificial refrigeration is a relatively new phenomenon. 'We've been making fires since before we were modern homo sapiens. cold is really recent — and it's not that people had not noticed ice is cold. … What they had no clue was how that cold existed.' Yet refrigeration has changed the way our world works. And, because of its enormous impact on climate change, it will continue to reshape i
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