“Our new Avocado Green Kelvinator looks good enough to eat.”
I've been working on the illustrations for Refrigerator tonight (out 9/15!) and found this one from 1966, which is so beautiful that it makes me want to cry: Alas, I…
The kind of proposal I make after being forced to teach four courses for a semester.
My latest for Vitae is here. Since I've already gotten some Twitter pushback for this essay, let me offer up some additional explanation. Have you ever noticed that when you…
“How a Massachusetts man invented the global ice market”
With a title like that, it should surprise you not at all that I get quoted in this Boston Globe story. In fact, the reporter did a good enough job…
Wrapped up in books.
Posting here has obviously been sparse lately. While this space is hardly going dark [Imagine the thought of me ever shutting up!], I can now tell you why the frequency…
“[E]ntertaining, well-narrated and well-researched”
The Business History Review review of Refrigeration Nation has arrived (subs. req.). Here's my favorite part: "In foregrounding cold chains, Rees has written an entertaining, well-narrated, and well-researched book about…
Yeah, that’s going on the back cover of the paperback edition.
"On the whole, this is a smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food."…
Icebox v. refrigerator.
Our DH seminar homework for tonight is to write a brief blog post considering how we might use text mining in our upcoming digital history projects. Unfortunately for me, a…
