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The Larder Index

ATLAS

The Countries

The directory shelved the world nation by nation: consumer bodies, schools, ministries.

every plate on this shelf

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A row of enamel testing weights on a dark bench, a magnifying glass and a folded questionnaire beside them, in low warm light.

plate IVThe Countries

The German Shelf

Reads the German country page as a census of German food governance, kept in German rather than English.

A wall of small unlabelled wooden drawers in a dark pantry, one drawer half open, photographed in low warm light.

plate IIIThe Countries

The Atlas of Nations

Reads how the index arranged the world nation by nation, and what a country page held.

A dark wooden shelf holding a French desk directory, a linen-bound register, and a small brass letter scale, photographed at dusk.

plate IIThe Countries

The French Shelf

Reads the French country page as a portrait of how France organised food knowledge.

A narrow Dutch canal-house office at nightfall, a desk with a card index, a PO box key, and a window over dark water.

plate IThe Countries

The Dutch Desk

Reads why a world food index was natural to keep from the Netherlands.