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Foods of GOR MISCELLANEOUS Bread (Sa-Tarna Bread) - This is the yellow bread made from the Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked in round loaves. "I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot..." Sugar - Two varieties of sugar are mentioned: white and yellow "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..." Sullage - Gorean soup consisting of sul, Tur-Pah and Kes. "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. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, ...the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,... and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub..." Spices - Garlic, nutmeg, salt and other spices... "..a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg." Butter - Made from the milk of the verr or bosk... "Olga," he said, "there is butter to be churning in the churning shed." Candy "He yelled something raucous and ribald. It had to do with "tastas" or "stick candies." 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 the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten." ... "These candies are usually sold at such places as parks, beaches, and promenades, at carnivals, expositions and fairs, and at various types of popular events, such as plays, song dramas, races, games, and kaissa matches. They are popular even with children." ... "The expression was sometimes used by men for women such as we." Slave Porridge or Slave Gruel - Made of Sa-Tarna grain and water…is usually unsweetened. In Torvoldsland, raw pieces of parsit fish are added to the gruel. "We had been called from our cells well before dawn. Each of us had been forced to eat a large bowl of heavy slave gruel. We wouldn’t be fed again until that night." Sa-Tassna "Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother. Incidentally, when one speaks of food in general, one lways speaks of Sa-Tassna." Sa-Tarna - A yellow grain, a staple of Gor; used in making bread and is sometimes used to brew paga. "Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or life-Daughter." Salt - two varieties, red or white. Most salt is mined in Klima, though the Torvoldlanders get their salt from sea water or seaweed. "Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from the 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." Pastries, Cakes, Tarts, Custards "On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards." Mint Sticks "She withdrew, head down. She picked up the small tray from the stand near the table. On it was a small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from the distant Turia, the Ar of the South, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it. On the tray too, was the metal vessel which contained black wine, steaming and bitter from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enamled 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." Green Insects "On the tenth day, instead of the pan of bread, with the water, Ute thrust a different pan under the door. I screamed. Tiny things, with tiny sounds, moved, crawling over and about one another in it. I screamed again, and thrust it back out. It had been filled with the fat, loathsome green insects which, in the Ka-la-na thicket, Ute had told we were edible. Indeed, she had eaten them. 'they are nourishing,' she had said." Honey "In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine." Eggs - used like chicken eggs on Earth, these are from the vulo. "Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan…" Eggs of the White Grunt "In the hall was a open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. There were four men and two women at these tables, other than the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past several days, the Lady Metpomene. The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. The first wine, a light white wine, was being deferentially served by Pamela and Bonnie." Cheese - Made from the milk of the bosk or verr. "In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine."
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