Ice : G.P. Putnam's Sons : 9780593422199 : 0593422198 : 06 Jun 2023 : The unexpected and unexplored ways that ice has transformed a nation?from the foods Americans eat, to the sports they play, to the way they live today?and what its future might look like on a swiftly warming planet. Ice is everywhere: in gas stations, in restaurants, in hospitals, in our homes. Americans think nothing of dropping a few ice cubes into tall glasses of tea to ward off the heat of a hot summer day. Most refrigerators owned by Americans feature automatic ice machines. Ice on-demand has so revolutionized modern life that it's easy to forget that it wasn't always this way?and to overlook what aspects of society might just melt away as the planet warms. In Ice, journalist and historian Amy Brady shares the strange and storied two-hundred-year-old history of ice in America: from the introduction of mixed drinks ?on the rocks,? to the nation's first-ever indoor ice rink, to how delicacies like ice creams and