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

A different "card catalog" is required for different antigens.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023

They are both practical and inspirational, an instruction manual for a new era and a card catalog for a society in crisis.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2020

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

He moved into the rotunda and did a quick card catalog search on one of the desktop computers.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein