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"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/di...anted=all&_r=0

So, what did people do before fridges?

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My grandfather was a farmer in the early-to-mid part of the last century.
He had a large ice house, and people would drive by (first in horse and
buggy, later in automobile) to buy ice for their ice boxes. My
grandparents, land went to the edge of a large lake, and my grandfather
would cut large squares of ice from the lake in the winter. These would be
stored in the ice house. That was before my time, but I think extra
insulation was provided by covering the ice with sawdust in the ice house.
They also had an underground root cellar, and that was cool enough to store
many varieties of food for extended periods of time. They had an electric
refrigerator by the time I was born, but they still used the root cellar for
many items. They lived in northeast Ohio.

MaryL