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I’m cataloging two books on ventriloquism and tbh, I hate everything about it. Freaky as hell. But I am enjoying being introduced to the term “gastromancy.”
October 15, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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A fungril archmage taking a batch of fresh arcane cookies from the oven. The School of Gastromancy wizard is one of 18 new subclasses you can find in Fearless volume 2, a supplement for #Daggerheart, out now on Heart of Daggers this week end! Here is thefull subclass
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Cookies!
A fungril archmage taking a batch of fresh arcane cookies from the oven. The School of Gastromancy wizard is one of 18 new subclasses you can find in Fearless v
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August 29, 2026 at 4:03 PM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Your first subscriber, your first real reader, your first true listener has got to be you.

#Creatorsky #Writesky #Booksky #Poetrysky #Readsky #5amWriters #6amWriters #WritersCommunity #Writercommunity #Omakase #Sushi #Chef #ThisIsGastromancy #Gastromancy #Culinary #Cook #Recipe #OriginStory
Nobody Showed Up. Good.
The only sane way to build something that lasts.
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July 16, 2026 at 11:37 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
At its worst, somebody serves olive oil trapped inside fake caviar beads while acting like they invented gravity.

#Foodsky #Chef #Cook #Culinary #Goumert #Gastronomy #Gastromancy
Fire Is Still Kicking A$$
Chef Techniques: Worth It Versus the Gimmicks
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May 19, 2026 at 10:33 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Central Park has been a grocery store this whole time.

#Foraging #FightHunger #Inflation #Hunger #NY #NewYork #Culinary #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Food #Chef #Recipe

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Nature’s Tipping Policy Is Zero Dollars
Free grocery store hiding in plain sight
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May 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
You’re being lied to by the map of your own tongue.

#Umami #Parmesan #Kokumi #GhostIngredient #Gastromancy #Chef #Culinary #Gastronomy #Specter #Broth #recipe

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The Ghost Ingredient
The Trick That Will Haunt Your Palate
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April 18, 2026 at 5:35 PM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
The Guardian noted that 8 in 10 people in professional kitchens reported mental health problems.

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#Careers #Professions #Chef #Cook #Culinary #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #FoodWriting #FoodJournalism #FoodSky
The Dish Chefs Never Want Their Kids to Cook
Why a global profession that feeds the world so often tells its own children to look elsewhere
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March 25, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Across the Atlantic and around the world, mourning meals perform similar work with very different textures.

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#FoodWriting #FoodCulture #BlackFood #Gastromancy #Foodsky #Amateur #Chef
The Gospel of Grease
How Black American funeral repasts became one of the world’s most profound food genres
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March 24, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
“My brain: this pizza is terrible. Also my brain: same time next week?”

#Pizza #Gastronomy #Gastromancy #AllAboutFood #FoodSky #Food #Restaurants #Pizzaria #Pizzeria #psychology #nunchi

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Fool Me Twice, Extra Cheese Please
Why We Keep Returning to Pizza Places We Know Are Terrible
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March 20, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Kombucha was a peasant drink from ancient Manchuria. Now it’s the publicist for the wellness industry.

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#Fermentation #Kombucha #Miso #Kefir #Kimchi #Iru #Injera #Chicha #Idli #Korean #Japanese #Foodsky #Food #Gastromancy #Gastronomy
Your Premium Probiotic Has a Grandmother Who's Not Getting Paid.
How kombucha, kimchi, kefir, and miso traveled from ancient clay pots to gleaming wellness stores
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March 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
What most people miss about plant-based spirituality and food is that it is not uniquely Indian.

#Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Food #Eats #Spirituality #Buddhism #Vegan #Ancient #Diet #Sattva #Sattvic #Ayurveda #Tamas #Rajas

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The Diet That Thinks Your Onions Are Too Aggressive
5,000-year-old food philosophy that’s been quietly managing brain chemistry before neuroscience existed
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March 12, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Nobody lying in a hospice bed is asking for gold leaf or a twenty-course tasting menu.

#Food #Gastronomy #Gastromancy #LastMeal #Funeral #Hospice #LastBite #FoodSky #GoodEats

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A Life in One Bite
What hospice nurses around the world know about final food requests, and why it will change the way you eat
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March 11, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
The flour is the architecture. Everything else is interior design.
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#Pizza #Pizzeria #Flour #Crust #Naples #Food #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Italy #DeepDish #Neapolitana #Pie #Eat #Dough
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Around The World In 80 Red Flags
The pizzerias that break your heart, your wallet, and the unwritten laws of good taste
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March 8, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
The smoke detector is present. It is decorative.
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#Airbnb #kitchen #HealthInspection #Gastromancy #HomeRental #ToLet #Hotel #ShortTermRental #CouchSurf #rental #property #safety #checklist #Gas #Fuel #Electrical
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No Michelin Stars, Only Plenty of Violations
The international shadow industry standing between your holiday dinner and disaster
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March 7, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
The Korean DMZ soil has not seen a fertilizer bag or a tractor since the armistice of 1953.

#Politics #Gastromancy #Korean #DemilitarizedZone #FoodSky #EatSky #Culinary #Gastronomy #Ecology #doraji #deodeok #foraging #bibimbap #doenjang #jjigae

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Plants Don’t Know About Politics
Inside the accidental gardens blooming between armed guards, ancient recipes, and some of the most ecologically pristine borderlines on Earth
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March 6, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
The word “synesthesia” comes from the Greek: syn (together) and aisthesis (sensation).

#Culinary #Gastronomy #Gastromancy #Food #Taste #Chef #Gustatory #neuroscience #Language #ShortReads #Foodsky #Eatsky #synesthesia #Flavor #GrantAchatz #Health #Wellness

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MY BRAIN HAS A MICHELIN STAR
When the words you read, speak, or even think land on your tongue as actual tastes, cooking and eating become something else entirely
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March 5, 2026 at 9:15 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
The plongeur was the lowest rung of the hierarchy and also, as Orwell saw, the load-bearing one. Nothing moved without them. Nothing has changed.
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#Plongeur #DishWasher #Culinary #KitchenSky #FoodSky #Gastronomy #Gastromancy #EatSky #AritaYaki #PlateDesign

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Hot, Wet, and Completely in Charge
The industrial dishwasher’s wash cycle secretly writes your tasting menu, shapes your plates, and times your entire evening.
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March 3, 2026 at 8:39 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Fermentation is one of humanity’s oldest technologies. Older than writing. Older than the wheel.

#Fermentation #FoodPreservation #CulinaryArt #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Kimchi #Yogurt #sourdough #injera #Yeast #microbialcultures #terroir #rakfisk #tsukemono

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This Food Has Been Alive Longer Than Your Country
Inside the global underground doing something the supermarket can’t patent, copy, or kill
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March 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Somewhere right now a person dressed as a hot dog is checking an alarm labeled ‘drink water or die’ and waving cheerfully.

#Foodsky #Food #EatSky #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Culinary #Health #FoodMascot #Funnyassyi #Japanese #yuru-chara #Mascots #Health #WorkerRights #FreelanceJobs
It’s 104 Degrees Inside That Cheese Puff Costume
The underground gospel of suit performers, disaster snacks, and food mascots running a survival operation
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March 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
The fermented foods of ancient Babylon included beer and sourdough made from wild yeasts captured directly from open air
#Fermentation #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Food #Culture
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March 1, 2026 at 5:58 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Ancient Romans were eating crunchy fried chickpeas near the Colosseum before we started calling Doritos innovation.
#Crunchy #Food #ASMR #Pringles #Lays #Chips #Crisps #Dorritos #Doritos #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #FoodScience #Foodresearch #FoodWriting #Foodsky #EatSky #Snacks
Snap Judgment: The Perfect Crunch Is Never Accidental
The crispy conspiracy hiding in plain earshot.
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February 27, 2026 at 7:30 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Funeral food is society’s way of saying, ‘We don’t know what to do either, but we figured out the oven.’

#Grief #Mourning #Gastronomy #Gastromancy #Foodsky #Eatsky #ShortReads #Culinary #Burial #Wake #Funeral #food
Nobody Sends Kale When Someone Dies
A global, chemical, and carbohydrate-soaked investigation into what we eat when we mourn
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February 26, 2026 at 7:30 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
#Culinary school costs $40,000. A Knorr cube costs 30 cents. The soup tastes the same.
#Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Food #Ingredients #Cooking #Foodsky #Eatsky #Knorr #Maggy #Maggie #Swedish #Royco #Bouillon #Boullion #Broth #Recipe #MSG #Ramen #Instant #Soup #Base #Umami #flavor # concentrate
The Cube That Cooked the World
The most powerful thing in your kitchen doesn’t have a blade, a flame, or a Michelin star.
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February 25, 2026 at 7:30 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
Food becomes the most reliable clock in a place where the sky refuses to keep time.
#Food #Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Culinary #DoomsDayPrep #Svalbard #seedvault #FoodWriting #ShortReads #FunFacts #Interesting #Spitsbergen #Longyearbyen #Arctic #cuisine #Svalbardbutikken #Brunost #HusetRestaurant
Cold Storage Hot Plates
Inside the surprisingly nourishing world of Longyearbyen, where the people protecting all of humanity’s food future still have to figure out what’s for dinner.
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February 24, 2026 at 7:30 AM
fauxfiruta.bsky.social
There are places where one language simply has not caught up to what another language had already understood.
#Gastromancy #Gastronomy #Foodsky #Eatsky #Eats #ShortReads #IndiePub #Translation #Translator #Chef #Culinary #sobremesa #umami #terroir #Languages #Haggis #kimchi #jjigae #FoodWriting
What the Fork Did This Menu Just Say
Husband & wife lung slices, burned cuttlefish monsters, and the quietly heroic people paid to translate what cooks actually mean.
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February 23, 2026 at 7:30 AM