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

[vze26m98 <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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,



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