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Conditions required for a society to develop aquaculture?
While researching Kwak'wala, because I think the languages of the Pacific Northwest have this amazing aesthetic I want to mimic in some languages in my world, I came across the fact that the Kwakwak'...
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Feasibility of a Cannibalistic Army? [closed]
Among humans cannibalism has been practiced as a funerary ritual within numerous cultures across the world, and also as a way of ritualistically degrading defeated enemies, as was done most notably ...
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Can we Build a World Where Cooking is Difficult?
I want to build a world that satirizes the modern cult of cooking. The cult has a long list of infractions that will ruin a dish and render it inedible. For example:
Chopping an onion the wrong way
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Why can only this race of people called "bees" make honey and beeswax?
The "bees" of my world are not insects, but instead are a race of tiny bird-people, no more than an inch tall. They can make honey and wax with rather mundane means, not much different from ...
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How would merfolk food presentation look like?
In my world there are merfolk who live in their own underwater civilization. They are sapient with unique and complex social customs, and one of them involves food.
Just like on land, merfolk royalty ...
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Pre-Spaceflight Alien agriculture Part II Predators and carnivores [closed]
This is part two of a question (link to Pre-Spaceflight alien agriculture part I: herbivores and grazers) last time I asked what would Agriculture look like for sentient herbivores, trying to figure ...
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Pre-Spaceflight alien agriculture part I: herbivores and grazers
One of the most important developments in our history as a sentient species was the development of agriculture. When our ancestors decided to grow their food instead of gathering it, it allowed us to ...
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How can I make the food of my (fantastical) culture believable?
I'm going through my novel in the editing stages, and I'm realizing how flat the culture of my food is. How can I develop a good food culture that is believable without drawing too much on human ...
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What could substitute coffee in a modern post-apocalyptic society?
Context is the same as in a previous question.
Summing up: a rebuilt, ultra-modern city state after an apocalypse where everything's produced in underground farms, and as such, certain commodities are ...
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What could some alternative eating utensils be like?
I know it's not really all that exciting, but things like eating will be very prominent in the cultures and show up a lot in my story...
In my world I want my race to have at least two different ...
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Which Cuisines Would Adapt Best To Space?
If you take all of earth's food and cuisines, which ones would be the mostly logically adapted to be made and eaten in a microgravity-freefall environment within the following constraints.
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Making cooking require split-second timing
Consider a world in which cooking food is complicated by the need to employ split-second timing to prepare it correctly (for example, to prevent it from being overcooked or undercooked).
This would ...
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What kind of food would be common in a culture that tries to avoid fire as much as possible?
The people of A. are a race of small, lemur-like people that build their villages deep in the forest on treetops. Since they live directly surrounded by forest in a vaguely Mediterranean Climate with ...
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Does a hexagon-based bread loaf make any sense?
Back in the day, during a writing jam, I started wondering it'd be good if a culture in my world would have loafs of bread resembling a hexagon-based tube. Almost like a cylinder, but with six well ...
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Why does this society eat bones? [closed]
Animals eat bones but most human societies do not. I have a fictional modern society which engages in this practice, but what sort of history or culture would lead to it?
Objectively, there are health ...
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