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User Review - shevek - LibraryThingTremendously detailed history of the collection, storage, and uses of ice, with an emphasis on ice cream, sorbets, and sherbets that suggests it probably began as background for a book of ice cream ... Read full review
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User Review - mcglothlen - LibraryThingI shouldn't probably rate this one. I have to admit I've never finished it. It's a little... well... really NOT meaning to be clever here: her writing style is a little chilly. A little academic. I ... Read full review
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| Title | Harvest of the cold months: the social history of ice and ices |
| Authors | Elizabeth David, Jill Norman |
| Editor | Jill Norman |
| Publisher | Viking, 1995 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 27, 2009 |
| Length | 413 pages |
| Subjects | › › Cooking / Essays History / United States / General Science / Earth Sciences / General |
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