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Ice-making in the western Mediterranean.

L'artisanat de la glace en méditerranée occidentale.

Author(s) : ACOVITSIOTI-HAMEAU A.

Type of monograph: Other

Summary

This is supplement n. 1 to the ASER Notebook describing the old methods of accumulating and storing ice, particularly in the southern parts of the western Mediterranean, where the climate, a transition between the Mediterranean and continental types, makes cross-cultural contacts and competition between various methods possible. Table of contents: history of a little known utilisation, snow wells, ice wells, the examples of Provence and Catalogne, the work of the mason and the icemaker, marketing and legal system.

Details

  • Original title: L'artisanat de la glace en méditerranée occidentale.
  • Record ID : 1996-2661
  • Languages: French
  • Publication: ASER - France/France
  • Publication date: 1991
  • Collection:
  • Source: Source: 116 p. (21 x 29.7); fig.; phot.; tabl.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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