Foods of GOR

MEATS

VERR - A goat-like animal raised for meat and milk.

"The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk, was strong."
Savages of Gor, page 60

"In the cafes, I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod..."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

Tarsk - The 6 tusked wild boar; it's meat can be compared with pork.

"...if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor’s temperate forests."
Assassin of Gor, page 87

"Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans."
Raiders of Gor, page 44

"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer."
Raiders Gor, page 44

"The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah."
Raiders of Gor, page 219

Tabuk - In the south, the tabuk is a one-horned antelope-like animal, yellow in colour. It is used for meat and hides. The northern tabuk is much larger also used for meat and hides and is a tawny brown in colour.

NORTHERN TABUK "They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift; many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted antelope-like quadruped of the south. On the other hand, they too were distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. A charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous animal."
Beasts of Gor, page 152

SOUTHERN TABUK "Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one of the one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-la-na thickets of Gor."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 145

"...my mouth watered for a tabuk steak..."
Outlaw of Gor, page 76

Bosk - A larg animal, probably akin to an Earth cow, buffalo or ox. It provides meat and milk, as well as hides and furs for tents and clothing. It is commonly talked of in the books as being associated with the Wagon Peoples of the plains of Turia.

"The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an ox like creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skin cover their bodies..."
Nomads of Gor, pages 4-5

"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo..."
Hunters of Gor, page 34

"With a serving prong, she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Guardsman of Gor, page 234

POULTRY

Vulo - Like an Earth chicken. Can be eaten, or raised to provide eggs.

"...vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey..."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan..."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 73

"I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth…"
Nomads of Gor, page 84

"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo...I held the leg of the fried vulo toward one of the girls..."
Hunters of Gor, page 34

Tumits

"I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless, carnivourous birds of the southern plains, was at hand..."
Nomads of Gor, page 331

Marsh Gant Aquatic fowl; a web-footed, horned, small bird. Hunted by marsh girls and/or Rencers for food.

"I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of Rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks."
Raiders of Gor, page 4

"The cries of the marsh gants were about us now. I saw that her hunting had been successful. There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft."
Raiders of Gor, page 10

SEAFOODS

Cosian Wingfish These small fish have the ability to fly above the waters of Cos for short distances. It's livers are considered a delicacy.

"'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. The blue, four-spired wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The small blue fish is liver as the delicacy of delicacies."
Nomads of Gor, pages 84

Eels

"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

White Grunt

"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

Oysters

"Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk,…"
Captive of Gor, page 301

Parsit Fish small silver fish with brown stripesit can be placed in to …put into the slave gruel in Torvoldsland. These fish are also salted and said to be exported to the south.

The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. 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, pages 63

"The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands. Trade to the south, of course is largely in furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 28

"Tomorrow night," said Ivar Forkbeard to her, "I shall have your ransom money." She did not deign to speak to him, but looked away. Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 56

VEGATABLES

Beans

"A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. 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, onion tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Katch - A leafy vegetable, maybe like spinach?

"…a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch…"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

"A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. 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, onion tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Kes - Notes as one of the main ingredients of Sullage. Sullage is a common Gorean soup.

"The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, …the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees 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

Turnips, Garlic, Carrots, Radishes

"A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. 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, onion tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut."
Outlaw of Gor, page 29

Kort

"…a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous,and heavily seeded."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Mul Fungus - Eaten by the slaves in the Nest of the Priest Kings. These slaves were commonly known as Mulls. It is a bland, tasteless vegatable.

"It is not hard to get used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no taste, being and extremely bland, pale, whitish, vegetablelike matter."
Priest Kings of Gor, page 109

Olives

TORIAN "The Tarn Keeper...brought 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

RED OLIVES FROM 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