Introduction -- Part 1. The birth of an obsession -- The man who would be ice king -- Blasphemous ice -- The iceman cometh -- Highways, holidays, and the cheap-ice revolution -- Part 2. Food and drink -- The inside scoop -- "Culture in a glass" -- On the rocks -- Fire and ice -- Part 3. Ice sports -- Fancy figures -- Cork-bungs, brooms, and Zambonis -- The need for speed -- Part 4. The future of ice -- Fevers, freezers, and Frankenstein -- TV dinners, Henry David Thoreau, and a swiftly warning planet -- Flammable ice -- Conclusion.
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