Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man, (Paperback)

from konastories

Joy's reviews: Lots of very interesting factoids about Clarence Birdseye and inventions and inventors of that era. It somehow felt disjointed, though. I think it needed some major themes or something tying the whole thing together.It sometimes felt like Kurlansky had left-over research from "Cod"...

from UberButter

Birdseye: The Adventure of a Curious Man by Mark Kurlansky★★★Want to read the biography of a man who reinvented the frozen food industry? Clarence Birdseye would invent a technique of flash freezing that is still used today. Without him, your frozen food aisles at your grocery store would be much...

from melydia

I picked this up on a whim; I had no idea Bob Birdseye was even a person. I've eaten Birdseye frozen vegetables as long as I can remember, but it was only through this book that I learned that Birdseye was basically the start of frozen foods as a preferred option. Previously, frozen foods were pr...

from hombredemaderas

Not as good as Kurlansky's past work, but still a fascinating look into the life of an extraordinary man.

from mrmapcase

The author has written many well received books about food, which led him to want to write about Clarence Birdseye, the inventor of frozen foods. The problem with this is; which he admits, there are very few sources for information on Birdseye, and this leads him into describing a lot of superflu...