A man with a drinking glass in his hand stares into an empty wooden ice box with two bottles resting on top of it, circa 1935. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
I’m not sure I’ve seen a set of ice tongs in real life before. But there I was at the antique market in a section that mainly collected old tools for the kitchen. The merchant had a few of them hanging there and I took them down, opening and closing a pair.
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
