BLACK BREAD
baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains. It is heavy and dark in color and served with clotted bosk cream or honey.
"The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of the oar." HUNTERS OF GOR, Pg. 13.
BOND MAID GRUEL
a "thick" porridge of satarna meal and water mixed with parsit fish.
"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, Pg. 63-64.
BUTTER
churned from the milk of the bosk or verr.
"We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of butter." MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 101.
CHEESE
made from the milk of the bosk or verr.
"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, Pg. 168
CUSTARD
thick pudding-like dessert.
"On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards." GUARDSMAN OF GOR, Pg. 239.
FERMENTED MILK CURDS
made from bosk milk.
"By one fire I could see a squat Tuchuk, hands on hips, dancing and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds, dancing, according to Kamchak, to please the sky." NOMADS OF GOR, Pg. 28
GARLIC
like earths garlic.
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 29.
HONEY
collected from the hives found in the meadows and forests.
"The proprietor arrived with hot bread, honey, salt, and to my delight, a huge, hot roasted chunk of tarsk." OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 79
HONEY CAKES
made from the rich sweet honey of Gor.
"...from a vendor, the Forkbeard bought his girls honey cake; with their fingers they ate it eagerly, crumbs at the side of their mouths." MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 144.
INSECTS (bugs) "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." CAPTIVE OF GOR, Pg. 315.
MINT STICKS
mint flavored candies of Gor.
"...a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers." EXPLORERS OF GOR, Pg. 10.
NUTS
collected from the many trees found in the forests.
"...vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey..." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 37
PASTRIES
type and kind not specified, but mentioned.
"I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes things they will not trust their female slaves to buy." NOMADS OF GOR, Pg. 238.
RENCE
a water plant whose grain, similar to rice, is eaten. The stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. the grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened. Its paste can be fried into a type of pancake.
"In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste." RAIDERS OF GOR, Pg. 28.
RENCE CAKES
Its paste can be fried into a type of pancake.
"In a moment the woman had returned with a double handful of wet rence paste. When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds." RAIDERS OF GOR, Pg. 25.
SA TARNA
a grain, like wheat, yellow in color, brewed into paga and it is also ground and used to bake the sa-tarna bread.
"At the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow..." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 37.
SA TARNA PORRIDGE
a thick paste of boiled sa-tarna. A cold, unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal, with vegetables and shreds of meat added, on which slaves are fed.
"Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish." MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 56.
SPICES
varied spices.
"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." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 46.
"There is a little market in simple Laura for the more exquisite goods of Gor. Seldom will one find there Torian rolls of gold wire, interlocking cubes of silver from Tharna, rubies carved into tiny, burning panthers from Schendi, nutmegs and cloves, spikenard and peppers from the lands east of Bazi, the floral brocades, the perfumes of Tyros, the dark wines, the gorgeous diaphanous silks of glorious Ar. Life, even by Gorean standards, is primitive in the region of the Laurius, and northward, to the great forests, and along the coast, upward to Torvaldsland". CAPTIVE OF GOR
SUGAR
yellow sugar is made from fruits and the white sugar from the juices of crushed cane stalks.
"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."
SULLAGE
a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes along with whatever else may be handy.
"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" PRIEST-KINGS OF GOR, Pg. 45.
TASTA
Similar to Earths Candy Apples.
"Stick candy, 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 then the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. These candies are usually sold at such places as parks, beaches, and promenades, at carnivals, expositions and fair, and at varius types of popular events, such as plays, song dramas, races, games, and kaissa matches". DANCER OF GOR, Pg. 81
YELLOW GOREAN BREAD
round yellow loaves of bread.
"Moreover, where there was Kal-da, there should be bread and meat. I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot..." OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 76
