In the early 1800s, Bostonian Frederick Tudor had a radical vision – to ship frozen New England water across oceans to the tropics. Tudor pioneered the global ice trade despite being called “crazy.” We have an EXCLUSIVE interview with Frederick. This is a story of how one man’s far-fetched idea built an unlikely empire and forever changed the world’s relationship with ice.
Want to learn more? Here is one of my favorite books on this topic. In The Frozen Water Trade, Gavin Weightman chronicles the fascinating history of the 19th-century ice trade and the “Ice King” Frederick Tudor’s ambitious plan to ship frozen lake ice from New England across the world to the tropics. Weightman vividly traces how Tudor built an unlikely global business transporting ice to places like the Caribbean and India, transforming ice from a luxury to a commodity.
