card catalog

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After a day of reviewing cookbooks and recipes from competent, contemporary cooks, I find myself scrolling toward something stranger: accounts that operate like a digital card catalog of retro culinary horror and delight.

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

"We show that there is basically a card catalog available," Heath added.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

In an 1890s card catalog in his office, the loose finger of a plaster Jesus shares a drawer with Duracell batteries.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

There is an old card catalog Offill lugged home one day as a present for her husband, and a chalkboard marking planting dates for his sugar snap peas and baby bok choy.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2020

And when I got confused when Mrs. Rouse was explaining about the online card catalog, Betsy didn’t make fun of me.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff