https://world-of-food.net/ An independent monograph of the world's food shelves: how countries, federations and product trades were once mapped, drawn from the old World-of-Food directory. en-us Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://world-of-food.net/the-pantry/reading-the-index-today/https://world-of-food.net/the-pantry/reading-the-index-today/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe PantryWhat a reader can still consult: the archive's captures, the living federations, and the shape of the web the index assumed. https://world-of-food.net/the-pantry/the-keepers-of-the-index/https://world-of-food.net/the-pantry/the-keepers-of-the-index/Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe PantryWorld-of-Food was an initiative of Food-Info.net and EFFoST: a consumer reference project and a scientific federation, keeping one desk. https://world-of-food.net/the-journals/the-reading-shelf/https://world-of-food.net/the-journals/the-reading-shelf/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe JournalsThe index kept a short shelf of periodicals: New Food, Food Safety Magazine, Trends in Food Science and Technology, and the trade wire Flexnews. https://world-of-food.net/the-countries/the-atlas-of-nations/https://world-of-food.net/the-countries/the-atlas-of-nations/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe CountriesThe World-of-Food directory shelved the planet country by country: nearly two hundred national pages behind a single drop-down menu. https://world-of-food.net/the-countries/the-french-shelf/https://world-of-food.net/the-countries/the-french-shelf/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe CountriesFrance's page in the World-of-Food index read like a map of French food governance: consumer unions, the great schools, and the INRA. https://world-of-food.net/the-countries/the-dutch-desk/https://world-of-food.net/the-countries/the-dutch-desk/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe CountriesThe World-of-Food index was kept from a post office box in the Netherlands, the country that turned food logistics into a science. https://world-of-food.net/the-trades/forty-shelves/https://world-of-food.net/the-trades/forty-shelves/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe TradesBeside the country pages ran a second axis: forty product groups, from additives to wine, each shelved as its own trade. https://world-of-food.net/the-federations/the-federation-layer/https://world-of-food.net/the-federations/the-federation-layer/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe FederationsAt the top of the index stood a page of international bodies: EFFoST, IUFoST, BEUC, and the sector federations that sign for their trades. https://world-of-food.net/the-trades/bread-beer-and-cereals/https://world-of-food.net/the-trades/bread-beer-and-cereals/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe TradesThree neighbouring shelves of the index held the grain trades: cereals and starch, the bakers' federation, and the brewers' convention. https://world-of-food.net/the-federations/codex-fao-and-the-world-table/https://world-of-food.net/the-federations/codex-fao-and-the-world-table/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe FederationsAbove the European federations, the index shelved the world's public food bodies: the Codex Alimentarius, the FAO and the WHO. https://world-of-food.net/the-trades/the-coffee-and-tea-shelf/https://world-of-food.net/the-trades/the-coffee-and-tea-shelf/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe TradesCoffee and tea had their own shelves in the index, stocked with the roasters' federation, the coffee science centre and the commodity alliances. https://world-of-food.net/the-federations/the-consumers-row/https://world-of-food.net/the-federations/the-consumers-row/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe FederationsThe index filed the watchdogs beside the watched: Consumers International, BEUC, and each country's consumer unions on the national shelves. https://world-of-food.net/the-journals/the-flexnews-wire/https://world-of-food.net/the-journals/the-flexnews-wire/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe JournalsAmong the journals sat Flexnews, the trade wire: the index's concession to news on a shelf otherwise built for reference. https://world-of-food.net/the-journals/how-an-entry-was-kept/https://world-of-food.net/the-journals/how-an-entry-was-kept/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe JournalsThe index ran on two small forms: one to propose a link, one to report a dead one. The machinery of a hand-kept directory. https://world-of-food.net/the-pantry/the-parking-years/https://world-of-food.net/the-pantry/the-parking-years/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe PantryBetween the directory's last capture and this monograph: years of domain parking, then unrelated content, and what the archive kept safe.