Birdseye / Kurlansky, Mark

Presents a biography of Clarence Birdseye, whose fast-freezing techniques revolutionized food storage and the easy delivery of pre-packaged meals. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

A biography of Clarence Birdseye, the American inventor, discussing work as a fur trapper in Canada early in the twentieth-century, his patented Birdseye freezing process that changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the other inventions that he created.