num_pages: 272
description: While working as a fur trapper in Labrador Canada Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing unhealthy diet. However he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve store and distribute food and the way we eat. Mark Kurlanskys vibrant and affectionate narrative reveals Clarence Birdseye as a quintessential can-do American inventorhis other patents include an electric sunlamp a harpoon gun to tag finback whales and an improved incandescent lightbulband shows how the greatest of changes can come from the simplest of ideas and the unlikeliest of places
language: English
title: Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
publisher: Doubleday