About the Food water

Food is the friendliest pack on the surface and one of the deepest underneath. The Plankton layer is pizza and pasta; three layers down live the fermented, the regional and the technically-named — dishes your grandmother knows but the internet rarely lists.

The mirror angle

Read the recipe backwards: not the finished dish, but the ingredient, the technique, the region it escaped from. A dish's mirror image is its supply chain, and that is where the rare answers hide.

Example ladders

Three real shapes from this pack's bank — the crowd's answer, and the answer that leaves the crowd at the surface:

Food tips

• Regional dishes beat national dishes: go one province deeper than the famous version.
• Technique words (confit, ceviche, ballotine) are Rare-tier regulars.
• Obscure ingredients — salsify, agretti, wattleseed — are the One in a Noillirk layer.

Every food prompt in the bank

38 prompts — each with its own rarity ladder published:

• Name a cheese from France — gem: Époisses
• Name a type of pasta — gem: Orecchiette
• Name a fruit that grows on a tree — gem: Durian
• Name a spicy chili pepper — gem: Carolina Reaper
• Name a famous Italian dish — gem: Osso Buco
• Name a type of bread — gem: Injera
• Name a breakfast food — gem: Shakshuka
• Name a dessert made with chocolate — gem: Sachertorte
• Name a type of sushi — gem: Chirashi
• Name a famous Mexican dish — gem: Chiles en Nogada
• Name a citrus fruit — gem: Yuzu
• Name a green vegetable — gem: Bok Choy
• Name a type of cake — gem: Dobos Torte
• Name a famous Chinese dish — gem: Mapo Tofu
• Name a type of nut — gem: Pine Nut
• Name a dish made with eggs — gem: Shakshuka
• Name a famous Indian dish — gem: Rogan Josh
• Name a type of soup — gem: Gazpacho
• Name a type of berry — gem: Gooseberry
• Name a famous sandwich — gem: Croque Monsieur
• Name a rice dish — gem: Arancini
• Name a famous Thai dish — gem: Khao Soi
• Name a type of mushroom — gem: Chanterelle
• Name a dish made with potatoes — gem: Gnocchi
• Name a famous Greek dish — gem: Spanakopita
• Name a type of pie — gem: Tourtière
• Name a tropical fruit — gem: Rambutan
• Name a famous Japanese dish — gem: Okonomiyaki
• Name a type of sausage — gem: Andouille
• Name a dish made with chicken — gem: Chicken Cordon Bleu
• Name a famous Spanish dish — gem: Gambas al Ajillo
• Name a type of cookie — gem: Biscotti
• Name a root vegetable — gem: Parsnip
• Name a fast food chain — gem: In-N-Out
• Name an herb used in cooking — gem: Tarragon
• Name a famous Middle Eastern dish — gem: Mujadara
• Name a type of dumpling — gem: Manti
• Name a frozen dessert — gem: Semifreddo