Re: [microsound] [OT] question about New Yorker article on ice

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"if you can think of a better way to get ice, i'd like to hear it"

apu, the simpsons

vze26m98 wrote:

> Glenn Bach wrote on 1/28/05:
>
> >A very off-topic question: I'm looking for an article that appeared a
> >few months/years ago in _The New Yorker_ about contemporary
> >manufacturing and distribution of ice, particulary the competition
> >among several entrepreneurs for the title of "Ice King."
>
> Is this what you're looking for?  It's a review from the April 21, 2003
> issue of the New Yorker.  More general searches for "ice" and "king"
> didn't turn up much...
>
> "The Frozen-Water Trade, by Gavin Weightman (Hyperion; $23.95). The idea
> sounds fanciful: harvest ice in Massachusetts and sell it to people in
> the tropics. But the nineteenth-century entrepreneur Frederic Tudor was
> immune to ridicule and single-minded in his conviction that the ice
> trade could be profitable. He was also right. This entertaining history
> of his crusade to turn New England into the world's ice-maker shows how
> the combination of technological innovation and sharp marketing-Tudor
> trained bartenders to use ice in cocktails in order to illustrate the
> virtues of cold drinks-created an industry that sold thousands of tons
> of ice a year to places like India, Cuba, and the American South. As a
> case study of the entrepreneurial mind, Weightman's book reminds us that
> creating demand can be as important as meeting it."
>
> Best,
>
> <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
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