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The Curious Pantry
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Sharing curious facts, forgotten food history, and global gastronomy.
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Ever noticed how some dishes are wrapped in leaves? From preservation to presentation, here's why humans have wrapped food in green for thousands of years🥬
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#Food #Tamales #Dolmas #Foodsky
Wrapped in leaves: A global tradition of edible packages
Before foil, plastic wrap, or containers, people used what was naturally available: leaves. Flexible. Abundant. Biodegradable. Aromatic. Sometimes even edible. Across continents, wrapping food in leav...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Carrots weren’t always orange. The story of how the Dutch engineered a vegetable and rewrote food history with color 🥕
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#Food #Carrots #Orange #Dutch #Foodsky
The orange carrot lie: How politics shaped a vegetable
Carrots weren’t always orange. For centuries, cultivated carrots came in a variety of colors: purple (one of the oldest), white, yellow, and red or red-tinged. The orange carrot, what most of us eat t...
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January 12, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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✨I HAVE A STEAM PAGE!✨
store.steampowered.com/app/4099650/...
Go give it a wishlist! I'm told that helps game devs!
#indiedev #indiegame #creaturecollector
It's Ponpai on Steam
It's Ponpai! It's a comedic, offbeat monster-collecting RPG with a strategic turn-based battle system. Gather your ponpai friends, explore the city, and help out the local community!
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January 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Pandoro. A look at the origins of how this star-shaped sweet became an Italian holiday icon.
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#Food #Pandoro #Italy #Christmas #Foodsky
Pandoro: The golden star of Italian winter
Pandoro. A towering, star-shaped bread-cake that appears on millions of Italian tables each December, dusted with a snowfall of icing sugar and sliced like rays of edible sunshine. Behind its elegance...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This is my final game for my one game per month challenge!

Launch Santa out of a catapult in this game I creatively named "Santa Launch"!🎅

apiratehat.itch.io/santa-launch

#indiedev #godotengine
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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It’s my first time doing one of these, so hello everyone! #promosky

Interests:
• 🍳 #Cooking
• 🧁 #Baking
• 📚 #Reading
• 🎮 #Gaming
• 💻 #Gamedev
• 🥾 #Hiking

If any of this is your vibe, feel free to say hi or follow. I’d love to discover you too! 💫
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Rice pudding travels the world under different names. A sweet journey around the globe 🌾🥛
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#Food #RicePudding #Foodsky
One dish, many names: The global story of rice pudding
A handful of rice. A bit of milk. A sweetener. That’s all it takes - and yet rice pudding, in one form or another, exists in nearly every food culture on Earth. From the ancient kheer of India to the ...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Adding my favourite band to my game🦆
A 3D modeled vinyl record in the Godot Engine. On the cover there's three ducks swimming in water. The band name is "The Duckies" with the album name of "Pond-ering".
November 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Ever wondered why onions make you cry? It’s not emotional - it’s biochemical warfare 🧅
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#Food #Onion #Foodsky
Why onions make you cry
You’re just trying to make dinner - and suddenly you’re blinking back tears over your cutting board.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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For #PitchYaGame let me show you Portrait Painter🎨

A short game where you help a struggling art museum by painting portraits🖌️

Wishlist:
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November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Persimmons. Discover this overlooked fruit and its seasonal magic🍂
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#Food #Persimmons #Kakis #Foodsky
Persimmons: Sweet gems of autumn
Persimmons may look like simple orange fruits, but they carry a rich history and a fascinating chemistry. From ancient Asia to European tables, they’ve been cherished for their beauty, flavor, and sym...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Clarified butter lasts longer and cooks hotter. Bain-marie or straight to the pan - both lead to sunshine in a jar. Would you try making your own? 🧈
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#Food #Butter #Bain-marie #Foodsky
Clarified Butter: Two easy methods
Clarified butter isn’t just a fancy chef’s trick - it’s practical. By removing the milk solids and water, you’re left with pure butterfat that lasts longer, has a higher smoke point, and has a nutty t...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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It's soon Halloween and of course for my monthly game I had to theme it accordingly. Say hello to "Boo-uty Salon"! A spookily themed dress-up game!

apiratehat.itch.io/boo-uty-salon

#indiedev #godotengine
October 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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My friend @apiratehat.bsky.social made this beautiful banner for my Bluesky! I absolutely love how it turned out! ✨
You should definitely follow him - especially if you’re into games and game development 🎮
October 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Butter that doesn’t burn? From Indian temples to French kitchens, clarified butter has shaped rituals and recipes for centuries🧈
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#Food #Butter #Ghee #Foodsky
Clarified butter: Pure gold in the kitchen
At first glance, it’s simply butter that has been gently heated until the water evaporates and the milk solids separate, leaving behind golden, pure butterfat. But that seemingly simple transformation...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Italy isn’t just pasta and pizza - it’s nettles, chicory, elderflowers, and wild mushrooms too 🌿🌼
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#Food #Italy #Forage #Porcini #Foodsky
Gathered by hand: Foraged foods in Italian cuisine
Foraging might sound trendy today, but in Italy it’s deeply traditional. From mountain villages to coastal towns, Italians have long gathered wild ingredients to enrich their kitchens. Some are humble...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Adding more items to the storage room

#portraitpaintergame #godotengine #indiedev
September 14, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Nordic cuisine is built on foraging 🧺
Here are 5 wild foods from the Scandinavian forest - and how they’re eaten 🌲
Would you try them?
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#Food #Lingonberries #Chanterelles #Foodsky
Top five foraged foods in Nordic cuisine
Foraging isn’t just a hobby in the Nordic countries - it’s tradition. Thanks to allemannsretten in Norway and allemansrätten in Sweden (“the right to roam”), anyone can pick from nature’s pantry.
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September 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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What did sailors eat in the Age of Exploration? ⛵
From hardtack to salt pork and beer rations - food at sea was survival, science, and sometimes mutiny ⚓
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#Food #Sea #Foodsky
What sailors really ate at sea
Long before refrigeration or vacuum sealing, preserving food for months at sea was a logistical nightmare. And yet - voyages depended on it. Poor planning didn’t just mean hunger… it meant scurvy, mut...
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September 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I have managed to finish my game for September for my one game per month challenge. This time it's a golf game and it's called "Gawf!"⛳

apiratehat.itch.io/gawf
September 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Bitter oranges line the streets of Seville (Spain) 🍊
British kitchens turn them into marmalade.
How did a fruit too sour to eat become a beloved breakfast staple - and a symbol of empire, medicine, and memory?
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#Food #Orange #Marmalade #Foodsky
Seville’s bitter orange: A global journey
If you've strolled through Seville (Spain) in spring, you’ve likely seen the city in bloom - lined with more than 40,000 orange trees. Their blossoms are fragrant, their fruit vibrant - and, surprisin...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Some work in progress from my game Portrait Painter. This will be a short interlude, or a "palette cleanser" as I like to call it🎨😉

#godotengine #gamedev #portraitpaintergame
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Milk can last for months on a shelf in some countries - and only a week in others. 🥛
The secret isn’t magic, it’s UHT vs pasteurization. 🐄
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#Food #Milk #Foodsky
Why milk lasts for months in some countries, but only a week in the US?
If you've ever traveled to Europe, you may have noticed something odd. The milk sits on a room-temperature shelf, not in a fridge. The expiration date is months away, not days. How is that safe? And w...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I have started to translate my game. It's weird seeing it in Swedish...
The UI of the color picker for my game "Portrait Painter" translated into swedish.
August 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Your kitchen is a pharmacy.🌿
For centuries, herbs were prescribed as cures for everything from headaches to melancholy.
Discover 10 plants that are as curative as they are delicious.
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#Food #FoodHistory #HerbalMedicine #Plants #Foodsky
Ten ancient medicinal plants still used in cooking today
For thousands of years, kitchens weren’t just for cooking - they were pharmacies. Many of the herbs and spices we sprinkle into our dishes today were once prescribed as cures for everything from heada...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM