Conductas refrigeradas

Un estupendo libro nos narra historias alrededor de la nevera como invento; nos enriquece con datos y modelos, con los que podemos apreciar lo lejos que llega el impacto de esa tecnología en nuestros hábitos; y nos confronta con numerosas preguntas sobre muchas cosas que decidimos, y a las que renunciamos también, sin siquiera tener conciencia.

Judged in terms of its impact on a range of criteria, including productivity and health, refrigeration was deemed more significant than the knife, the oven, the plow, and even the millennia of selective breeding that gave us the livestock, fruits, and vegetables we recognize today. It is also a much more recent development: our ancestors learned to control fire before modern humans even evolved, but our ability to command cold at will dates back little more than 150 years.

Nicola Twilley, Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves