The Trial of Daily Bread

I remember learning in grade school that refrigerators were from the devil.My teacher, very doubtfully a believer in Satan, at least assured us of the refrigerator’s nefariousness. Men were takers, you see — from Mother Earth and from the animal kingdom. These little boxes, opening their doors as angels of light, allowed greedy man to preserve his selfish spoils unspoiled. He could take and take and take without consequence for his hoarding. This technology, ascending from the underworld, all bu