"I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45

"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. . ."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37

"It is a huge shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck, and long, shaggy hair. It has wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears."
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, pp. 4-5

"Though similar in build to the Yak of earth the Bosk bears the heavier form of the buffalo of earth and like him, provides, food, leather and many of the needs of the people of Gor. The meat may be roasted or broiled, dried,stewed or served in a myriad of ways."
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, p. 4

"Olga," he said, "there is butter to be churning in the churning shed."
John Norman, Marauders of Gor, p. 101

"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 regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies."
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, pp. 84-85

"The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37

"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan. . . Eta piled several of the hot, tiny eggs, earlier kept fresh in cool sand within the cave, on a plate, with heated yellow bread, for him."
John Norman, Slave Girl of Gor, p. 73

". . . 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."
John Norman, Fighting Slave of Gor, pp. 275-276

"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."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 48

". . . a foliated leaf vegetable called Katch"
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37

"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."
John Norman, Priest Kings of Gor, p. 45

". . . 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."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37

"The larma is luscious. It has a rather hard shell but the shell is brittle and easily broken. Within, the fleshy endocarp, the fruit, is delicious, and very juicy. Sometimes, when a woman is referred to as a "larma," it is suggested that her hard or frigid exterior conceals a rather different sort of interior, one likely to be quite delicious. Once the shell has been broken through or removed, irrevocably, there is, you see, exposed, soft, vulnerable, juicy and helpless, the interior, in the fruit, the fleshy endocarp, in the woman, the slave."
John Norman, Renegades of Gor, p. 437

"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded apple like fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone."
John Norman, Players of Gor, p. 267

"On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion, to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood. Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, pp. 27-28

"Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45

". . . vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 47

"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."
John Norman, Assassin of Gor, p. 168

"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."
John Norman, Raiders of Gor, p. 114

". . . vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 47

"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."
John Norman, Captive of Gor, p. 301

"The men with the net drew it up. In it, twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown, squirmed more than a stone of parsit fish. They threw the net to the planking and, with knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish."
John Norman, Marauders of Gor, p. 61

"The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing. The slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and the fall, betaken in great numbers."
John Norman, Marauders of Gor, p. 27

"On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards."
John Norman, Guardsman of Gor, p. 239

"I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, gorean peas, and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine."
John Norman, Assassin of Gor, p. 87

"I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45

"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."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 238

". . .salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or the burning of seaweed. It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids. The red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland."
John Norman, Marauders of Gor, pp. 186-187

"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot."
John Norman, Outlaw of Gor, p. 76

". . .he gave me two generous pieces of bread, two full wedges of Sa-Tarna bread, a fourth of a loaf. Such bread is usually baked in round, flat loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. Some smaller loaves are divided into four divisions."
John Norman, Kajira of Gor, p. 216

"I, mixing the water with the precooked meal, formed a sort of cold porridge or gruel. I then, with my fingers, and putting the bowl even to my lips, fell eagerly upon that thick, bland, moist substance."
John Norman, Kajira of Gor, p. 257

"He sat upon a giant shell of the Vosk sorp, as on a sort of throne, which for these people, I gather it was."
John Norman, Raiders of Gor, p. 14

"Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tharai districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head,"
John Norman, Tribesman of Gor, p. 46

". . .a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 48

"She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray upon the table. 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, she stirred the beverage after each measure."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 89

"Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling, head down, served us our dessert, slices of tospit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars."
John Norman, Rogue of Gor, p. 132

"The sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable. It is very common on this world. There are a thousand ways in which it is prepared. It is fed even to slaves. I had had some at the house; narrow, cooked slices, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt, fed to me by hand."
John Norman, Dancer of Gor, p. 80

"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."
John Norman, Raiders of Gor, p. 219

"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."
John Norman, Priest Kings of Gor, p. 45

"At the end of the wall, Inmak wept, seeing the strewn fields of slaughtered tabuk. The fur and hide of the tabuk provides the red hunters not only with clothing, but it can also be used for blankets, sleeping bags and other articles. Too, they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light narrow hunting canoes of skin from which sea mammals may besought. Lashings, harpoon lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels,wedges, and knives. It's fat and bone marrow can be used as fuel. Too, almost all of the animal is edible."
John Norman, Beasts of Gor, pp. 169-170

"The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos. . ."
John Norman, Priest-Kings of Gor, p. 4

"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests."
John Norman, Outlaw of Gor, p. 76

"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."
John Norman, Raiders of Gor, p. 44

"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."
John Norman, Dancer of Gor, p. 81

"He looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking something like a peach, but about the size of a plum."
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, page 149

"A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit. The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind. I smiled. Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds,on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier. Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds. Most tospits do. I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks. I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, elished strong tastes."
John Norman, Tribesman of Gor, p. 45

". . . on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peach like 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."
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, p. 59

. . . the host of the parasite, Tur-Pah, one of the ingredients of sullage. There was one large trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vine-like tree parasite with curled scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes; such as sullage, a kind of soup."
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, p. 217

". . . and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes."
John Norman, Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37

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

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

"She was a peasant, barefoot, her garment little more than coarse sacking. She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat."
John Norman, Nomads of Gor, p. 1