Antepasta

Antepasta is an uncooked proto-pasta item that exists in the game world as a raw ingredient awaiting preparation. It represents pasta in its pre-cooked form and cannot be consumed or used in its final culinary role until it is subjected to a cooking process. The item’s sole explicit property in available descriptions is that it requires cooking to become a finished pasta product.

In practical use, Antepasta functions as a preparatory ingredient: it occupies inventory space as an unfinished food item and must be transformed by a cooking action or recipe that accepts proto-pasta. Players should treat Antepasta as a non-edible intermediate step in any meal or crafting chain that produces pasta-based dishes. Because the item is described uniformly across locales as awaiting cooking, recipes, stations, or NPCs that process raw food are the correct mechanisms to convert it into its edible form.

• Status: raw/uncooked ingredient.
• Required action: cook to complete preparation.
• Use case: serves as the precursor component for pasta dishes or any game mechanic that consumes uncooked pasta.
• Handling note: do not attempt to use Antepasta as a finished food item; it must first undergo the designated cooking procedure.