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Editorial policy
How The Canteen Ledger reads and names its sources, handles corrections and captions its images as plates.
Sources read and named
Every entry on the four counters rests on sources the ledger has read. Each entry names them at the foot of the page: archived pages of the canteen, dated menus, recipes, reviews and local press. Where a claim has no source, the entry says so.
The date an entry was checked
The record is read from pages that survive only in part. Each entry carries the date it was last checked. A date is not a promise of completeness. It is a record of when a person last sat with the material and confirmed it.
Corrections
Errors are corrected by email. Write to [email protected] with the entry reference and the passage in question. The ledger reviews the source, amends the entry, and moves the checked date forward.
Images captioned as plates
Images on this site are illustrative. Each one is captioned as a plate that describes what it shows, and none is presented as a documentary photograph of a particular room, dish or person.
Limits of the ledger
Nothing here takes a booking, publishes a price or speaks for the canteen. People, suppliers and the press named in an entry are described in the third person.