Inside our freezer
Lloyd Alter
Architect Donald Chong once wrote that "small fridges make good cities"—that if you are part of a vibrant community you don't need a big fridge. When you are committed to fresh and seasonal food you buy it and eat it, or you preserve it. Your food choices respond to the marketplace, the baker, the vegetable store and the neighbourhood vendor.
Some have gone much farther and suggested that you don't need a fridge at all, but that is perhaps a bit extreme—refrigeration is one of the twentieth century's greatest inventions, letting us keep things like milk safe and and lasting longer. We just don't need so much of a good thing. As far as freezers go, some would say you don't need it at all (we have nothing but martini glasses in ours) whereas some seasonal food advocates suggest freezing food to last year round instead of importing it; if so, for maximum energy efficiency it should be a separate chest freezer.
So how can you get by with nothing but a small fridge:
