Cooling the TropicsBeginning in the mid 1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiiall in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as essential for white occupants of the nineteenth century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hiilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the