Chilling Inspiration: How Clarence Birdseye Launched Frozen Foods
Series: The UpBeet Gardener Series
From: Marion Owen
Length: 00:02:00
When we crave fresh fruits and vegetables in the middle of winter, we can thank Clarence Birdseye for the next best thing. Birdseye found a way to flash-freeze foods and deliver them to the public---one of the most important steps ever taken in the food industry. And to think the idea was born during a blizzard, in the territory of Alaska...
...After returning to New York in 1923, with an investment of seven dollars for an electric fan, buckets of brine, and cakes of ice, Clarence Birdseye invented and perfected a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing them under high pressure.
And the frozen food industry was launched...
This piece is a sample module in the UpBeet Gardener series. It first ran on December 2, 2004.
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When we crave fresh fruits and vegetables in the middle of winter, we can thank Clarence Birdseye for the next best thing. Birdseye found a way to flash-freeze foods and deliver them to the public---one of the most important steps ever taken in the food industry. And to think the idea was born during a blizzard, in the territory of Alaska... ...After returning to New York in 1923, with an investment of seven dollars for an electric fan, buckets of brine, and cakes of ice, Clarence Birdseye invented and perfected a system of packing fresh food into waxed cardboard boxes and flash-freezing them under high pressure. And the frozen food industry was launched... This piece is a sample module in the UpBeet Gardener series. It first ran on December 2, 2004.
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