Ice Box (photo: dok1/Flickr)

Earlier this week Radio Boston spoke with Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History, World Without Fish and Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, about the entrepreneurial life of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized fast-freezing last century and forever changed how we eat. (On March 6, 1930 Birdseye frozen food went on sale for the first time.) Birdseye is characterized as a “man of his era” and a “foodie” at heart who constantly wrote home about what he ate. Kurlansky’s new book is Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man.

Curious? Understatement. Listen to the segment here.