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Food
The Wagon Peoples grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing, as we know it. They are herders a, and it is said, killers. They eat nothing that has touched the dirt. They live on the meat and milk of the bosk. They are among the proudest peoples on Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute them the open, windswept plains of their world. The bosk is said to be the Mother of the Wagon Peoples, and they reverence it as such. The man who kills one foolishly is strangled in thongs or Suffocated in the hide of the animal he slew. Page 5 Nomads of GOR Black Bread: baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey Bosk: large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served Butter: Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr Cheese: - Bosk Cheese: sharp in taste - Verr: mild tasting and soft, excellent with fruit or melted for sauces. Dates: come from Tor, staple food of Tahari Tribesmen Fish: many different varieties of fish are consumed: - Parsit; a silvery fish having brown stripes - Cosian wingfish; a tiny blue saltwater fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in the city of Turia - Marsh Shark; large and carnivorous, sliced thick into steaks. - Salt Thassa fish a small fish from the gleaming Thassa, served baked, steamed or broiled. - Vosk Carp: a large carp from the river Vosk. Kort: a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg Katch: leaf vegetable Larma: succulent fruit, rather like an apple; 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. Olives: are commonly from Tor (referred to as Torian Olives); also red olives which come from the groves of the city of Tyros Ramberries: small reddish fruit, full of edible seeds Rence: a water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake Sa-Tarna: wheatlike grain, used to brew paga and make a light sweet bread. Sa-Tarna bread: pale, soft bread made from the Sa-Tarna grain.baked in round loaves. A staple in the Gorean diet. Slave porridge/Sa-Tarna Gruel: a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which Slaves are fed Sorp: a shellfish, common especially in the Vosk River, similar to an oyster Tambor Gulf Oysters served raw,steamed, baked, smoked or in stews. Vosk Sorp smaller than Tambor Gulf Oysters, they produce pearls. Tabuk: Swift gazelle-like animals known for their sweet meat and speed, the Tabuk is generally served roasted Ta grapes: purple fruit from the Isle of Cos Tarsk: similar to the Earth pig Tospit: a bitter, juicy citrus fruit. Small and peach-like, yellow in color and often dried and candied. Tumits: a large carnivorous bird of the plains Verr: a goat-like animal. The meat can be eaten. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. Verr meat must be steamed in the ground wrapped in leaves for the whole day. This prevents it from being bitter and stringy Vulo: a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and its eggs which are very tiny...meat is roasted, baked or stewed....eggs are fried, boiled or pickled. Drinks ALE; Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer...a deep gold in color, and brewed from the grains of Gor and hops imported from earth in the early years. It is traditionally served in a goblet. Pulled from a cask, served in either a goblet or a tankard. Can be served warm as well as cold. BAZI TEA; Very aromatic tea brewed fresh from Bazi leaves. Served hot & heavily sugared; traditionally drunk 3 tiny cups at a time, in rapid succession. Some Masters may expect the kajira to take each cup as he or she empties it BLACKWINE; Rich aromatic, hot drink (very similar to Earth's coffee). Brewed from dark beans grown in the mountains of Thentis. Traditionally served in taverns by two slaves, the first carries the sugars and cream, the second carries the blackwine itself. If a Free asks for blackwine second slave they are referring to the serving of the blackwine without sugar or milk; from the fact that the sugar and milk are placed in the cup by the first slave before the second slave fills the cup with blackwine. CHOCOLATE; Made from beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth. It is served in higher class establishments. KA-LA-NA; A very potent dry red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The sweet and deliciously fragrant wine of Gor, is distilled from the fruit of the Kalana trees. It is typically served in a goblet, chilled or at room temperature. KAL-DA; A hot almost scalding drink made of distilled Ka-la-na wine mixed with juices of fruits such as tospit and larma and hot spices. The spices are hot stinging spices, not like the spices of mulled ka-la-na. Served hot, in a footed bowl , like beer considered a peasant drink. Ladled from a large kettle hung over the fires. MEAD; Mead is brewed from fermented honey and is sweet. It is often preferred over paga by the men of Torvoldsland. It is drank from tankards or large drinking horns. MILK; Can be bosk milk, or verr. Served in a goblet or glass, cold or warmed if requested. MULLED KA-LA-NA; Heated ka-la-na, with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of ka-la-na fruit or tospit, served in a goblet. PAGA; Brewed from the golden yellow Sa-Tarna grain, a staple of Gor. Its full name is Pagar-Sa-Tarna, which translates literally into "Pleasure of the Life Daughter." Paga is an extremely high powered brewed beverage like a heavy stout or sour mash wheat beer. There are two kinds of paga, sa-paga - made from the grains of the sa-tarna plant and sul-paga - made from suls It is typically served in bowls or kanthros (bowl with two handles for gripping), or drunk straight from the bota. RENCE BEER; Made from the rence plant, commonly drunk by the peoples of the rence islands. TA-WINE; A dry white wine made from Ta grapes from the Isle of Cos, served at room temperature, in a goblet, poured from a bottle. SLAVE WINE; A black bitter beverage, the main ingredient being sip root, that is given to the slave once a month and acts as a contraceptive. Its effect is instantaneous and lasts for well over a month, although a girl would not serve this wine a slave would be given this by her Master. BREEDING WINE; A sweet beverage which counteracts the effects of slave wine, making a slave girl fertile; also called second wine, it is made from the extract of the teslik plant. **Side note about ice: QUOTE: "Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na." "My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course, does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury of ice in the summer." From Guardsman of Gor pg. 295 |
