Found in Villeneuve, this set of six canisters dates to the early 20th century, glazed white and checkered in cobalt blue, each capped with a peaked lid and named in painted script: Café, Chicorée, Farine, Pâtes, Riz, Sucre. Chicorée keeps its own jar in the row because the French had long roasted chicory root to stretch their coffee or stand in for it outright, a habit that outlasted every shortage that first drove it. Sylvie lines them along an open kitchen shelf, the coffee and flour and sugar all within reach of the morning.
