Because the sight of so many foods is similarly attractive, I keep rows of glass jars full of dried beans and lentils and rice ranged on open wooden shelves; black-eyed and dark red kidney beans, orange and earthy brown lentils, lettuce-green flageolets and chick peas the colour of cornmeal; the jars have cork stoppers and are practical as well as pretty, because we have never altogether cured the damp in Moon Cottage, and the larder is not a good place for storing any dried goods in packets.
