-(noun): apparently identical to the apricot of Earth; references exist of the fruit being sold in marketplaces of the Tahari.
Book 10 : Tribesman of Gor, page 45
arctic gant eggs
-(noun): eggs of the migratory Arctic gant; when frozen, they are eaten like apples.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 196
biscuits
-(noun): a dried pressed biscuits described as baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 328
bond-maid gruel
-(noun): a porridge served to bond-maids in Torvaldsland made of dampened Sa-Tarna and raw fish
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 67
bosk
-(noun): a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a fearful temper, and two long, wicked, curved and pointed horns. The horns, from tip to tip may measure two spears in length. It is for good reason the bosk is called 'The Mother of the Wagon Peoples'. It's flesh and milk furnish food and drink, shelter is made from it's hides, and clothing from it's tanned and sewn skins. Weapons are made from the leather of it's hump and many tools and implements from it's bone and horns. Even the dung is dried and used for fuel. The bosk is reverenced and the penalties for it's slaughter without reason are extreme.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45
Book 4 : Nomads Of Gor, pages 4 and 5
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 26
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 34
Book 16: Guardsman of Gor, page 234
bread, black
-(noun): mentioned without description
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 13
bread, Sa-Tarna
-(noun): gorean bread made from Sa-Tarna grain, described as yellow, and since it is usually described as being cut in wedges, probably baked in a round flat pan.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 114
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 349
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 191
Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 22
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 469 (footnote)
cheese, bosk
-(noun): described as melted over suls.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 168
chocolate
-(noun): chocolate on Gor is probably from beans grown from cacao tree's brought from Earth.
Book 19: Kajira of Gor, pages 42 and 61
cosian wingfish
-(noun): 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.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 84-85
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 139
date
-(noun): a staple of the diet of the Tahari Tribesmen; 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.
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, page 46
eel
-(noun): 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.
Book 25: Magicians of Gor, page 428
gant, arctic
-(noun): migratory bird that nests on cliffs in the Hrimgar Mountains, the southern border of the polar north. When frozen, their eggs are eaten like apples.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 196
grunt, great speckled
-(noun): a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 360
grunt, white-bellied
-(noun): 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.
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 59
Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor, page 276
katch
-(noun): foliated leaf vegetable.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
kort
-(noun): a large, brownish-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
larma, applelike
-(noun): single-seeded applelike fruit; a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed; commonly called pit fruit.
Book 20: Players of Gor, page 267
larma, succulent
-(noun): fruit with a hard shell, brittle and easily broken, which encloses a fleshy endocarp, juicy and delicious. When a female is referred to as a 'larma', it is meant that her frigid exterior conceals a quite different interior. Larma or other fruit may be offered by a kneeling slave to her Master in a quiet plea for his sexual use of her.
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, page 27 and page 37
Book 23: Renegades of Gor, page 437
leech, marsh
-(noun): described as rubbery about 4 inches long; it attaches itself to plants in the marsh or float free in the water, waiting for warm blooded animals. They fasten themselves to their victim to suck blood until, satiated, they detach. They can be removed with fire or salt. They are edible.
Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor pages 96-97, 99-100, 102 and 236
melon
-(noun): in a Tahari market, described as a yellowish red-striped sphere.
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, page 45
mint stick
-(noun): a confection served in a bowl on a tray set for blackwine service, otherwise not described.
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, page 10
mul fungus
-(noun): bland whitish fibrous vegetable-like material which is the main food of muls.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 109
olive, red
-(noun): from the groves of Tyros, not otherwise described.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 114
oysters
-(noun): from the delta of the Vosk.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 301
parfleche
-(noun): kailiauk hide is prepared in sheets, cut almost as thin as paper, dried in the prairie sun and layered to form a flat, leather envelope which is sealed with a seam of hardened fat. Used to store food, such as kailiauk meat.
Book 17: Savages of Gor, page 328
parsit fish
-(noun): a silvery fish having brown stripes, the 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.
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, pages 28, 56, and 63-64
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
pemmican
-(noun): strips of dried kailiauk meat pounded into a powder and mixed with fruit, such as chokeberries, is fixed in kailiauk fat and shaped into round, flat cakes. Provides portable protein and energy source.
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 46
ram-berry
-(noun): small reddish fruit not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small edible seeds.
Book 7: Captive of Gor, pages 207and 305
rence, pith of
-(noun): edible part of the rence plant, either raw or cooked. Rence pith and fish are the dietary staples of the rence growers. Also sometimes used for caulking.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 7
salt, red
-(noun): some of the salt mines in the Tahari Desert Waste area of Klima, deliver a salt, famed on Gor, that is red in color from deposits of ferrous oxide. It is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after it's port of embarkation at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen.
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, pages 20 and 238
salt, white
-(noun): mined by the slaves who manage to live through a punishing march over the white hot crusts of salt of the Tahari Wastes to Klima, for example. Salt, mined from the Tahari makes up 20% of the salt used in various products of Gor. The forced marches to Klima can only be done in the fall, winter, or spring when the surface temperature of the salt crusts reach 160 degree's Farenheit and the air temperature ranges from 120 to 140 degree's. The mining, harvesting, sifting, purifying and packaging process turn out nine qualities of salt which are shipped all over Gor.
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, page 231, and 238-240
salt, yellow
-(noun): references to yellow salt as 'of the south' and on a table exist, but no other description has been found.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 86
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 186-187
Sa-Tarna
-(noun; lit. 'life-daughter'): staple gorean grain, described as yellow shafts growing in rows in a field.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 43
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 102
Sa-Tassna
-(noun; lit. 'life-mother'): meat; food in general
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 43
sea sleen
-(noun): long sleek mammal with flippers and six legs and double fanged jaws can weigh as much as 1000 pounds.. and as much as 20 feet in length hunted by the Red Hunters for food and pelt.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 285
sea sleen, black
-(noun): one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
sea sleen, brown
-(noun): one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
sea sleen, flat-nosed
-(noun): one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
sea sleen, rogue
-(noun): rare broader headed more dangerous variety of sea sleen found in the Polar North.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 283
sea sleen, tufted
-(noun): one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
shrub, kes
-(noun): a shrub whose salty blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage, a Gorean soup.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45
slave porridge
-(noun): 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.
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 126
Book 7: Captive of Gor, page 208
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 56, 63 - 65
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 66
sleen, sea
-(noun): aquatic mammal that inhabits the polar seas, following the parsit current in search of their main food source, the parsit fish. There are four main types: black sleen, brown sleen, tusked sleen, flat-nosed sleen. Some remain under the ice year round, mostly dormant but rising every quarter of an Ahn or so to breathe through cracks in the ice.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 185
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 38
sugars, Gorean
-(noun): although the flavors of the sugars are not revealed, there are several colors. White and yellow are described, and other quotes speak of gorean sugars, and in particular four gorean sugars.
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, pages 89 and 105
Book 15: Rogue of Gor, page 132
sul
-(noun): a large, thick-skinned, starchy, yellow-fleshed root vegetable. It is a staple of the Gorean diet.
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 219
Book 11: Slave girl of Gor, page 134
Book 16: Guardsman of Gor, page 234
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 80
sullage
-(noun): a soup made principally from suls tur-pah and kes along with whatever else may be handy
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor page 44
tabuk, common
-(noun): a kind of antelope, yellow in color with a single horn found in many area's of Gor. It travels in fleet footed herds and haunts the ka-la-na thickets of the planet occasionally venturing daintily into the meadows in search of berries and salt. It's meat is used as food by men (often as tabuk steak) and animals. It is a favorite prey of Tarns.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, pages 76 and 126
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 191
tabuk, prairie
-(noun): described as tawny and gazelle-like with a single horn, it responds to threat by scurrying away or lying down. Presumably this reponse is useful because of the high grass of the Barrens as most predators depend on vision to detect and locate it's prey.
Book 18: Blood Brothers of Gor, page 316
ta-grape
-(noun): edible purple fruit, the size of a small plum, from which Ta-wine is made, usually associated with the terraces of Cos, but also found in various locales of similar latitude
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45
Book 10: Tribesman of Gor, page 213
Book 20: Players of Gor, page 291
Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 81
tarsk
-(noun): fat, grunting, brindled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snorted, rooting, short-legged quadruped, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. In the wild, it is viciously aggressive. A common source of meat, and is often roasted whole. Market of Semris is famed for it's tarsk markets.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 76
Book 5: Assassin of Gor, page 87
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, pages 44 and 219
Book 13: Explorers of Gor, pages 345-346
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, pages 106, 108 and 281
tasta
-(noun): sweet, succulent candy on a stick; normally found in parks, promenades, and popular events.
Book 22: Dancer of Gor, page 81
tospit
-(noun): 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 eastern Cartius. 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.
Book 4 Nomads of Gor, page 59
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, page 102
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 46
tree, ka-la-na
-(noun): a tree with very strong yellow wood used for making bows; the fruit of the ka-la-na is used to make ka-la-na wine.
Book 1: Tarnsman of Gor, page 96
tur-pah
-(noun): a vine-like tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves which are edible and an ingredient of sullage, a gorean soup.
Book 3: Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 217
Book 6: Raiders of Gor, page 219
vangis
-(noun): type of produce sold at market; detailed description unavailable.
Book 19: Kajira of Gor, page 314
vegetables, common Gorean
-(noun): these are common Earth vegetables found on various parts of Gor, listed with their annotations: mushroom, beans, turnips, carrots, radishes, onions, peas, cabbage, peppers, and garlic.
Book 2: Outlaw of Gor, page 29
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, pages 37 and 47
Book 9: Marauders of Gor, pages 81 and 102
Book 21: Mercenaries of Gor, page 82
verr
-(noun): a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill-tempered with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool; it', milk is potable as well as being used for cheese.
Book 3: Priest-Kings of Gor, page 63
vulo
-(noun): a tawny-colored poultry bird similar to a pigeon which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs.
Book 4: Nomads of Gor, pages 1 and 84
Book 8: Hunters of Gor, page 34
Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
whale, baleen
-(noun): bluish white spotted whale with a blunt fin, hunted by the Red Hunters.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 265 and 334
whale, Hunjer
-(noun): toothed whale hunted by the Red Hunters.
Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 36
whale, Karl
-(noun): four-fluked baleen whale hunted by the Red Hunters
.Book 12: Beasts of Gor, page 36
white grunt, eggs of
-(noun): described as clustered, tiny black eggs of the white grunt served in a small golden cup with a small golden spoon.
Book 14: Fighting Slave of Gor, page 276