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Apricot
Presumably identical to an Earth
apricot
I brushed away two sellers of apricots and
spices. Come with me to the cafe of Red Cages, said
a boy, pulling at my sleeve.”
~ Tribesman of Gor page 45
Arctic Gant Eggs
Eggs of the migratory Arctic
gant; when frozen, they are eaten like apples.
“I stepped aside to
let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of
eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. They nest
in the mountain of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky
outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and
there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs
doubtless bear some geological relation to the
Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen they are
eaten like apples.”
~ Beasts of Gor page 196
Beans
No description
“Initiates do not eat
meat, or beans. They are trained in the mysteries of
mathematics. They converse among themselves in
archaic Gorean, which is no longer spoken among the
people.”
~ Marauders of Gor page 81
Biscuits
A dried pressed biscuit
described as baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour.
“...Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth
some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from
Sa-Tarna flour.”
~ Savages of Gor page 328
Black Bread
Baked soft and full flavored
from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with
clotted Bosk Cream or honey.
“The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and
Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized
thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews
of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing
holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives
measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of
the oar.”
~ Hunters of Gor page 13
Bond-Maid Gruel
A porridge served to bond-maids
in Torvaldsland made of damp Sa-Tarna and raw fish.
“Another of the bond-maids was then freed to mix
the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna
meal, and then stirring in the raw fish.” ~
Marauders of Gor page 67
Bosk
Large, shaggy, long horned
bovine similar to the Earth cow; served as beef is
served.
“The meat was a steak, cut from the loin of a
bosk, a huge, shaggy, long-horned, ill-tempered
bovine which shambles in large, slow-moving herds
across the prairies of Gor.”
~ Priest Kings of Gor page 45
Butter
Churned from the milk of the
Bosk or the Verr.
“"Olga," he said, "there is butter to be
churning in the churning shed.” ~ Marauders of Gor
page 81
Cabbages
No description given
“...too, there would be peas, and beans,
cabbages and onions, and patches of the golden sul,
capable of sur-viving at this latitude. I saw small
fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were
raised; and there were small sheds, here and there,
with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds
might craftsmen work; in others fish might be dried
or butter made.”
~ Marauders of Gor page 81
Candy
Soft, rounded, succulent
candies, usually covered with a coating of syrup or
fudge, rather in the nature of the caramel apple,
but much smaller, and, like a caramel apple, mounted
on sticks. the candy is prepared and the stick, from
the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it.
“These are not candies, incidentally, like
sticks, as, for example, licorice or peppermint
sticks, but soft, rounded, succulent candies,
usually covered with a coating of syrup or fudge,
rather in the nature of the caramel apple, but much
smaller, and, like a caramel apple, mounted on
sticks. The candy is prepared and then the stick,
from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. It
is then ready to be eaten.” -
Dancer of Gor p 81 ( also see below Mint Sticks)
Cheese
Pressed from the milk of the Bosk
they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting
molds in their hard rinds.
“The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the
tavern Mip, bought the food, bosk steak and yellow
bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown,
starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted
bosk cheese.” ~ Assassin of Gor page 168
Cherries
Grown in
Tyros.
"It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I
said. "I do not know what the flavor is," she said,
"but it is lovely, is it not?" "Yes," I said.” ~
Beasts of Gor page 349
Cosian Wingfish
Also known as songfish due to its
whistling mating song; a tiny blue salt-water fish
with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; found in
the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a
delicacy in Turia.
“"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling
me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spired
Cosian wingfish." This fish is a tiny, delicate
fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when
curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender
spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is
capable of hurling itself from the water and, for
brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding
through the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions,
which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines.
This fish is also sometimes referred to as the
songfish because, as a portion of its courtship
rituals, the males and females thrust their heads
from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound.”
~ Nomads of Gor page 84-85
Dates
These come from the City of
Tor; they are sold in a tef (a handful with the 5
fingers closed; a tefa is 6 tefs (a small basket);
Five such baskets constitute a huda. In large
compressed bricks they are used in trade.
“The principal export of the oases is dates and
pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palms grow to
more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years
before they begin to bear fruit. They will then
yield fruit for more than a century.” ~ Tribesman of
Gor page 46
Eel
A voracious animal which can
maim or kill a slave in moments. Some varieties are
edible and considered a gorean delicacy. Varieties
include: river eel, black eel, and spotted eel.
“Many estates,
particularly country homes, have pools in which fish
are kept. Some of these pools contains voracious
eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the
spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies.”
~ Magicians of Gor page 428
Eggs
Usually vulo eggs.. but there
are many varieties available depending on the
region.
She had been carrying a wicker basket containing
vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and
meat.
~ Nomads of Gor page 1
Fish, Parsit
A silvery fish having brown
stripes, they follow the 'parsit current' in the
polar basin. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and
dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the
south.
“The slender striped parsit fish has vast
plankton banks north of the town, and may there,
particularly in the spring and the fall, be taken in
great numbers. The smell of the fish-drying sheds of
Kassau carries far out to sea.” ~ Marauders of Gor
page 27 (references also on pages 56, 63 and 64)
Garlic
Not described in detail
“"I have peas and
turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man,
his bundle like a giant's hump on his back.”
~ Outlaw of Gor page 29
Grunts
Great Speckled - a fish inhabiting the Thassa and
caught as food for sailors.
“Half out of the water, then returning to it, I
saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled. It dove,
and swirled away.” ~ Slave Girl of Gor page 360
White-bellied
a large game fish which haunts
the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on
parsit fish. It's eggs are considered a rare
delicacy.. like caviar.
“Three other men of
the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net,
sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for
parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a
hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the
white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts
the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.”
~ Marauders of Gor page 59
Honey
No description given.. just
that honey bees are raised.
“I saw small fruit
trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and
there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping
roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen
work; in others fish might be dried or butter made.”
~ Marauders of Gor page 81
Katch
Foliated leaf vegetable similar
to lettuce.
“...a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch,..”
~ Tribesmen of Gor page 37
Kes Shrub
A shrub whose salty, blue
secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage.
“...and the salty, blue secondary roots of the
Kes Shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows
best in sandy soil.”
~ Priest-Kings of Gor page 45.
Kort
Often served sliced with
melted cheese and nutmeg, a large, brownish-skinned,
sphere-shaped vegetable of the Tahari usually some 6
inches in width. The interior is yellowish, fibrous
and heavily seeded.
“and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some
six inches in width, the interior of which is
yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.” ~ Tribesmen
of Gor page 37
Larma
They come in two types: juicy
- a segmented, succulent fruit, and hard, rather
like an apple, having one pit, commonly called the
pit fruit, it is sometimes sliced and fried, and
served with browned honey sauce; offering a larma,
real or imagined, by a slave girl to her master is a
silent plea for the girl to be raped.
“I took a slice of hard larma from the tray.
This is a firm, single-seeded, applelike fruit. It
is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is
sometimes called, and perhaps more aptly, the pit
fruit, because of its large single stone.” ~ Players
of Gor page 267
Melons
Yellowish, red-striped
spheres.
“"Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her,
lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres
toward me.” ~ Tribesmen of Gor page 45
Mint Sticks
Just mentioned as tiny mint sticks in a bowl
“On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which
had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter,
from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the
small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk
the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl
of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on
which we had wiped our fingers.” ~ Explorers of Gor
page 10
Mushrooms
No description given
“I am an Alar,” Hurtha
explained. “Have a stuffed mushroom.” I pondered the
likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a
black-market transaction in a war-torn district,..”
~ Mercenaries of Gor page 82
Olives
Are commonly from the City of
Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also Red Olives
which come from the groves of Tyros.
“Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na
wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr, and a
sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros.” ~
Raiders of Gor page 114
Onions
No description given
“...cabbages and onions, and patches of the
golden sul...”
~ Marauders of Gor page 81
Oysters
From the Vosk Delta
“Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for
the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even
oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the
plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies
having been intended for the very table of Marlenus,
the Ubar of that great city itself.” ~ Captive of
Gor page 301
Pastries
No specific mention
“Before each guests there were tiny slices of
tospit and larma, small pastries ...” ~ Fighting
Slave of Gor page 276
Peas
These are mentioned as a menu
item, though not described
“In them were growing, small at this season,
shafts ol Sa-Tarna; too, there would be peas, and
beans, cabbages and onions ...”
Marauders of Gor page 81
Peppers
Not described
“Telima had prepared a roast tarsk, stuffed with
suls and peppers from Tor.” ~ Raiders of Gor page
113
Radishes
Not described in detail
“Ottar dug for the Forkbeard and my-self two
radishes and we, wiping the dirt from them, ate
them.” ~ Marauders of Gor page 102
Ramberry
Small, succulent berries.
"A guard was with us, and we were charged with
filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a
small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike
plums save for the many small seeds."
~ Captive of Gor, page 305
Rence
A water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems
harvested and pressed into paper or woven into
cloth. The pith may be boiled or ground into a paste
and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a
type of pancake.
The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw
product in the manufacture of rence paper. The root,
which is woody and heavy, is used for certain wooden
tools and utensils, which can be carved from it;
also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; from the
stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails,
mats, cords and the kind of fibrous cloth; further,
its pith is edible, and for the rence growers is,
with fish, a staple in their diet; the pith is
edible both raw and cooked; some men, lost in the
delta, not knowing the pith edible, have died of
starvation the the midst of what was, had they known
it, an almost endless abundance of food.” ~
Raiders of Gor page 7
Salt
“Most salt at Klima is white, but
certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from
ferrous oxide in its composition, which is called
the Red Salt of Kasra, after its port of
embarkation, at the juncture of the Upper and Lower
Fayeen.” ~ Tribesman of Gor page 238
Also there are
references to yellow salt as 'of the south' and on a
table exist, but no other description has been
found.
“I gathered, that I would sit at one of the two
long side tables, and perhaps even below the bowls
of red and yellow salt which divided these tables.”
~ Assassin of Gor page 86
Sa-Tarna
Grain, specifically wheat, yellow, usually
described as being cut in wedges
“There were great quantities of the yellow Sa-Tarna
bread, in its rounded, six-part loaves.” ~ Raiders
of Gor page 114
Sa-Tassna
Meat; food in general.
“Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna,
which means Life-Mother. Incidentally, when one
speaks of food in general, one always speaks of Sa-Tassna.”
~ Tarnsman of Gor page 43
Slave Porridge
A cold, unsweetened mixture of
water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which slaves are fed; in
Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel', and
often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish.
“One of the smiths from below was summoned with
a bowl of slave porridge, which he mixed half with
water, and stirred well, so that it could be drunk.
There are various porridges given to slaves and they
differ. The porridges in the iron pens, however, are
as ugly and tasteless a gruel, and deliberately so,
as might be imagined.” ~ Assassin of Gor page 126
Snail
Much like the snails on Earth
these are small slug-like creatures living inside of
thin shells in the waters. often they are trapped
with water inside the bilge of a ship.
“Once the Forkbeard
went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with
her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown
overboard. Returning to Me, He held one of the
snails, whose shell He crushed between His fingers,
and sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing
it. He then threw the shell fragments overboard.
"They are edible," He said, "and We use them for
fish bait.” ~ Marauders of Gor page 62
Sorp
A shellfish, common esp. in
the Vosk river, similar to an oyster
“"They are probably false stones," I said,
"amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the
polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and
cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples.
"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber
droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished
shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in
Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples."” ~
Nomads of Gor page 20
Sugar
White and yellow are commonly
used
“With a tiny spoon,
its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter,
she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of
yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one
for the white sugar, another for the yellow.” ~
Tribesmen of Gor page 89
Sul
Starchy, golden brown, vine
borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a
tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often
served sliced and fried.
“The principal ingredients of Sullage are the
golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne
fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant.” ~ Priest
Kings of Gor ch 6
Sullage
A soup made principally from suls,
tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be
handy.
“First she boiled and simmered a kettle of
Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three
standard ingredients and, as it is said, whatever
else may be found, saving only the rocks of the
field.” ~ Priest Kings of Gor page 44
Tabuk
Swift gazelle like animals
known for their sweet meat and speed, the Tabuk is
generally served roasted.
“Once I brought the carcass of a tabuk, one of
Gor's single-horned, yellow antelopes, which I had
felled in a Ka-la-na thicket, to the hut of a
peasant and his wife.” ~ Outlaw of Gor page 76
“The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a
small graceful animal, one-horned and yellow, that
haunts the Ka- la-na thickets of the planet and
occasionally ventures daintily into its meadows in
search of berries and salt.” ~ Outlaw of Gor page
126
Ta Grapes
Purple fruit similar to earth
grapes comes from the Isle of Cos.
“The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta
grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced
island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port
Kar. I had tasted some only once before, having been
introduced to them in a feast given in my honor by
Lara, who was Tatrix of the city of Tharna.” ~
Priest-Kings of Gor page 45
Tarsk
Porcine animal akin to the
Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its
spine to the base of the tail, often roasted whole.
“Still later that
afternoon some groups of small, fat, grunting,
bristly, brindled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snouted,
rooting animals had been herded in, also with
pointed sticks, and they, too, had been guided into
identical cages. We had looked out of our cage, our
fingers hooked in the mesh, to other cages, some of
them with girls in them, some with the fat, flat-snouted,
grunting, short-legged, brindled quadrupeds. "Those
are tarsks," said one of the Gorean girls.” ~ Dancer
of Gor page 108
Tumits
A large carnivorous bird of
the plains, is hunted and eaten by the Nomadic
people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos the
sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat
that night.
“...beyond them I saw one of the tumits, a
large, flightless bird whose hooked beak, as long as
my forearm, attested only too clearly to its
gustatory habits;” ~ Nomads of Gor page 2
Tospit
Yellowish-white fruit: like an
Earth peach. They are bitter but edible, and are
sometimes served sliced and sweetened with honey,
and in syrups, and to flavor, with their juices, a
variety of dishes. They are also carried on sea
voyages to prevent nutritional deficiencies. They
almost always have an odd number of seeds, except
for the rare, long-stemmed ones. The Wagon People
often bet on the number of seeds.
“...on the top of which was placed a dried
tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike
fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the
tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the
drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are
bitter but edible.” ~ Nomads of Gor page 59
Turnip
Grown on the oasis of the Tahari
“At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish
Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most
Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions tuber
suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf
vegetable, called Katch, and various root
vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes..” ~
Tribesmen of Gor p 37
Tur-pah
An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate
leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in
sullage.
“The principal ingredients of Sullage are the
golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne
fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled,
red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,
cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees,...”
~ Priest Kings of Gor page 45.
Vulo
A
tawny-colored bird, similar to a pigeon, exists in
the wild; used for meat and eggs.
“She had been carrying a wicker basket
containing vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for
eggs and meat.” ~ Nomads of Gor page 1
“Behind them another four haruspexes, one from each
People, carried a large wooden cage, made of sticks
lashed together, which contained perhaps a dozen
white vulos, domesticated pigeons.” ~ Nomads of Gor
page 84
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