Cover art for Birdseye
Published
Random House, April 2013
ISBN
9780767930307
Format
Softcover, 272 pages
Dimensions
20.3cm × 13.2cm × 1.8cm

Birdseye The Adventures of a Curious Man by

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While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye 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.

Kurlansky's narrative reveals Clarence Birdseye as a quintessential "can-do" American inventor--his other patents include an electric sunlamp, a harpoon gun to tag finback whales and an improved incandescent lightbulb.

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