Gorean Food
APRICOTS:
"I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices." Book 10, Tribesman
of Gor, page 45
BEANS:
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inched in width,
the interior of which is yellow, fibrous and heavily seeded." Book 10,
Tribesman of Gor, page 37
BERRIES:
"I felt the pull of a strap on my throat, and opened my eyes. By a long
leather strap, some ten feet in length, I was fastened by the neck to Ute.
We were picking berries." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 208
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
BLACK BREAD:
soft baked bread of gorean grains, dark in color.
"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." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 13
BOND MAID GRUEL:
a soupy substance made of sa-tarna, water and raw 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." Book
9, Marauders of Gor, page 63
BOSK:
an animal resembling cattle of earth.
"Beyond the Sullage and teh bosk steak there was teh inevitable flat, founded
loaf of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
"The Wagon Peoples grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing as we know
it. They are herders, 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."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 5
BUTTER:
can be either bosk or verr butter.
"We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making
a keg of butter." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 101
CARROTS:
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inched in width,
the interior of which is yellow, fibrous and heavily seeded." Book 10,
Tribesman of Gor, page 37
CHEESE:
made from bosk milk. (have yet to find a reference to verr cheese)
"The Tarn Keeper, who was called in the Tavern by Mip, 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." Book 5,
Assassin of Gor, page 168
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
CHOCOLATE:
originally brought from earth, and grown on gor.
"This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy.
"Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you,
Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said.
"Many things here, of course, ultimately have an Earth origin. It is not
improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world
were grown were brought from Earth." "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked.
"No, Mistress," she said. "we obtain the beans from which the chocolate
is made, from Cosian merchants, who, in turn, obtain them in the tropics."
Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 61
CONDIMENTS:
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters
of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments."
Book 5, Assassin's of Gor, page 271
COSIAN WINGFISH:
called the wingfish because they can glide for short distances through
the air. the fishes liver is considered a delicacy.
"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver
of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page
84
"Near her, on night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating
whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. This is a small, delicate
fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are
poisonous. It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral
fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt
to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines.
It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males
and females thrust their heads from the water, uttering a kind of whistle.
Their livers are regarded as a delicacy. I recalled I had once tried one,
but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia, in the house of a man
named Saphrar, who had been a merchant.. Saphrar, I recalled, had once
been a perfumer from Tyros but, being exiled as a thief, had made his way
to Port Kar, and thence had gone to Turia. I had learned on the rail of
the light galley, and, in the moonlight, had listened to the mating whistles
of the small fish. The seemed so small, and innocent." Book 6, Raiders
of Gor, pages 138 and 139
CUSTARD:
"On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small,
spiced custards." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 239
DATES:
"The principal export of the oasises are dates, or pressed-date bricks."
Book 10, Tribesman of Gor, page 37
EELS:
the long thin fish which live in the sea.
"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114
"She tore the bread for us, broke the cheese, ribboned the eels and cut
the tarsk." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 115
"Many estates, particulary country estates, have pools in which fish are
kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river
eels, black eels, and the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies.
Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive."
Book 25, Magicians of Gor, page 428
FERMENTED MILK CURDS:
milk soured till it curdles.
"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." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 28
FLOUR:
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters
of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments."
Book 5, Assassin's of Gor, page 271
GANT EGGS:
Eggs of the Gant, eaten like apples when they are frozen.
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 196
GARLIC:
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Book 2, Outlaw
of Gor, page 29
GOLDEN SUL:
the starchy, golden-brown, vine-born fruit of the golden-leaved sul plant.
"The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy,
golden-brown, vine-born fruit of the golden-leaved sul plant; the curled,
red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue
secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant, which grows
best in sandy soil." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
HARD LARMA:
a firm, single-seeded, applelike fruit.
"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded,
applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes
called, and perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single
stone." Book 20, Players of Gor, page 267
HONEY:
extracted from hives.
"The proprietor arrived with hot bread, honey, salt, and to my delight,
a huge, hot roasted chunk of tarsk." Book, 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 79
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
HONEY CAKES:
cakes made with honey.
"Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free
women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see the tarn races, or
games, or songs-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side,
is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she
know that their true relation is that of master and slave girl; but when
they return home, and the door to his compartment closes, their charade
done, she immediately strips to brand and collar, and kneels, head to his
feet, once again only an article of his property; how scandalized would
have been the free woman, had they known that, next to them perhaps, had
been sitting a girl who was only slave; but there were no disguises in
Torvaldsland; there was no mistaking thatthe girls that followed the Forkbeard,
or "Thorgeir of Ax Glacier," were bond; to better display his pets, and
excite the envy of others, the Forkbeard had had his girls drop their kirtles
low upon their hips, and hitch them high, that their beauty might be well
exhibited, from their collars to some inches below their navels, and, too,
that the turns of their calves and ankles might be similarly displayed;
I would have thought that they might have groaned with humiliation and
attempted to hide themselves among us, but, instead, even Pudding and Thyri,
they walked as proud, shameless bond-maid; the exposure of the females
navel, on Gor, is known as the "slave belly"; only female slaves expose
their navels; from a vendor, the Forkbeard bought his girls honey cake;
with their fingers they ate it eagerly, crumbs at the side of their mouths."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 144
KALANA a sweet edible fruit. also used to make wine.
Lastly, as the culmination of Ar’s Planting Feast, and of the greatest
importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar’s
family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which
the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a
red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The member
of the Ubar’s family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest
and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards
of the Home Stone resume their vigil." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 68
KATCH:
foliated leaf vegetable.
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
KES:
a deeply rooted plant, the salty blue secondary roots of the shrub are
used in sullage.
"The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy,
golden-brown, vine-born fruit of the golden-leaved sul plant; the curled,
red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue
secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant, which grows
best in sandy soil." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
KORT:
A large, brownish, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable, usually some
six inches in width. The flesh of which is yellowish, fibrous, and heavily
seeded.
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
LARMA:
a juicy fruit with a rather hard shell.
"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." Book 10, Tribesman of
Gor, page 28
"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." Book 23, Renegades
of Gor, page 437
MARSH GANT:
I heard a bird some forth or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a
marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, brad-billed and broad-winged.
Marsh girls, the daughters of rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing
sticks." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 3
"In her hand was a curved throwing stick, used for hunting birds. It is
not a boomerang, which would be largely useless among the sedges and rushes,
but it would, of course, float, and might be recovered and used indefinitely.
Some girls are quite skilled with this light weapon. It stuns the bird,
which is then gathered from the water and tied, alive, in the craft. The
birds are later, on the rence islands, killed and cooked. I moved the rush
craft toward her, but not swiftly. Then, letting it drift, I put the tem-wood
paddle across the craft, resting my hands on it, and watched her. The cries
of the marsh gants were about is now. I saw that her hunting had been successful.
There were four of the birds tied in the stern of her craft." Book 6, Raiders
of Gor, page 10
"I had also been used to carry heavy kettled of rence beer from the various
islands to the place of feasting, as well as strings of water gourds, poles
of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarks, and baskets of the pith of rence."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 41
"Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning the fish and dressing
marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted
over rence-root fires kept on metal pans, elevated about the rence of the
island by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans." Book 6, Raiders
of Gor, page 44
MARSH SHARK:
eel-like, long-bodied shark.
"It is dangerous ot neter the water to make a tether fast becasue of the
predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, once
man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface,
protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden
rods to drive away, or at least to disconcert and confuse, too inquisitive,
undesired visitors, such as the water tharlarion or the long-bodied, nine-gilled
marsh shark." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 13
"We could kill tharlarion," said Ho-Hak, "and obtain leather. And perhaps
the teeth of the marsh shark might be fashioned in such a way as to tip
arrows." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 21
"Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean
marsh sharks." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 58
MELONS:
yellowish sphere with red stripes.
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"Buy melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish,
red-striped spheres toward me." Book 10, Tribesman of Gor, page 45
MINT STICKS:
mint flavored candy sticks.
"On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine,
steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small
yellow-enameled 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." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 10
MUL FUNGUS:
fungus, prepared four different ways, fed the the muls of the Priest Kings
"It is not hard to get used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no taste,
being and extremely bland, pale, whitish, vegetablelike matter." Book 3,
Priest Kings of Gor, page 109
"Muls feed four times a day. In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and
mixed with water, forming a porride of sorts; for the second meal it is
chopped into rough two-inch cubes; for the third meal it is minced with
Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly
some type of dietary supplement; at the final meal Mul-Fungus is pressed
into a large, flat cake and sprinkled with a few grains of salt." Book
3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 109
MUL-PELLETS:
a dietary supplement.
"... the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement ..."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 109
MUSHROOMS:
"I am an Alar," Hurtha explained. "Have a stuffed mushroom." I pondered
the likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a black-market transaction in
a war-torn district, one turned into a near desert by the predations of
organized foragers, in particular, the price of such a mushroom perhaps
diverted at great hazard from the tables of Cosian generals. Book 21, Mercenaries
of Gor, page 83
NUTS:
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
OLIVES:
commonly from the city of Tor. They are often known as Torian olives.
"The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, 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." Book 5,
Assassin of Gor, page 168
ONIONS:
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Book 2, Outlaw
of Gor, page 29
"Dorna the Proud, said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes,
potatoes and bread into the feed trough. Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 155
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
"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, berries, onions
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
OYSTERS delicacy of the waters.
"Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous
indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk.." Book 7, Captive
of Gor, page 301
PARSIP FISH:
striped fish, slender in width.
"Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net,
sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish..." Book 9,
Marauders of Gor, page 59
PASTRIES:
"I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes
things they will not trust their female slaves to buy." Book 4, Nomads
of Gor, page 238
"He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow
and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk,
the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards" Book 12,
Beasts of Gor, page 20
PEACHES:
"The fruit--grapes and peaches of some sort--was fresh and as cold as mountain
snow." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 26
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen of
Gor, Page 27
PEAS:
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Book 2, Outlaw
of Gor, page 29
"The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, 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." Book 5,
Assassin of Gor, page 168
PEPPERS:
"Telima had prepared a roast tarsk, stuffed with suls and peppers from
Tor." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
PLUMS:
"I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor,
page 45
POTATOES:
"Dorna the Proud, said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes,
potatoes and bread into the feed trough. Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 155
RADISHES:
"Dorna the Proud, said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes,
potatoes and bread into the feed trough. Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 155
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
RAISINS:
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
RAMBERRY:
a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the
many small seeds.
"A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets
with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums
save for the many small seeds." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 305
RED OLIVES:
red olives that are grown in the groves of Tyros.
"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114
RENCE:
a water plant, the grain having many uses (rence paste, rence cakes, rence
beer, rence seed), the stems are pressed into paper or woven into cloth.
"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, sprinkled with
rence seeds." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 25
"In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence
paste." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 28
"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted
tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and
porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Book
6, Raiders of Gor, page 44
RENCE CAKES:
a kind of cake made from rence paste.
"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, sprinkled with
rence seeds." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 25
"Around the tenth Gorean hour, the Gorean noon, the rencers ate small rence
cakes, dotted with seeds, drank water, and nibbled on scraps of fish. The
great feast would be in the evening. Around this time a small boy had come
to stare at me, a half-eaten rence cake in his hand. "Are you hungry?"
he had asked. "Yes," I had told him. He had held the rence cake up to me
and Ibit at it, eating it." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 41
SALT:
several varieties, including red, yellow, white and sea salt.
"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"
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 186-187
"... Near him in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls
of yellow and red salt ..." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 253
"Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt,
red from 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." Tribesmen of Gor pg 238
"It had been expected, I gathered, that I would sit at one of the two long
side tables, and perhaps even below the bowls of red and yellow salt which
divided these tables." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 86
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters
of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments."
Book 5, Assassin's of Gor, page 271
SA TASSNA:
meaning meat.
"Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother.
Incidentally, when one speaks of food in general, one always speaks of
Sa-Tassna." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 43-44
SA TARNA BREAD:
bread made from sa tarna grain, round and marked into six sections.
"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 sixtusked wild
boar of Gor's temperate forests." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 76
"Beyond the Sullage and teh bosk steak there was teh inevitable flat, founded
loaf of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
"There were great quantities of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread, in its rounded,
six-part loaves." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114
SA TARNA PORRIDGE:
another name for bondsmaid gruel. a mixture of sa-tarna grain, water and
raw fish which slaves are fed.
"Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and
scraps of dried parsit fish." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 56
SAUSAGE:
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters
of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments."
Book 5, Assassin's of Gor, page 271
SPICES:
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 46
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters
of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments."
Book 5, Assassin's of Gor, page 271
SPICED TORIAN VULO BRAINS:
considered a delicacy.
"It is the spiced brain of the Torian vulo," Shphrar was explaining." Book
4, Nomads of Gor, page 83
"I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating
prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia." Book 4, Nomads of
Gor, page 83
SUGAR:
yellow sugar is made from fruits and the white sugar from the juices of
crushed cane stalks.
"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 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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 89
"Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us
our desert, slices of tospit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars." Book
15, Rogue of Gor, page 132
"I decided I might care to taste the steaming, black wine. I lifted my
finger. The girl in whose charge was the silver vessel, filled with blackwine,
knelt beside a tiny brazier, on which it sat, retaining it's warmth. She
rose swiftly to her feet. She knelt, head down, before me. She poured,
carefully, the hot, black beverage into the tiny red cup. I dismissed her.
The other girl, the white skinned, red-haired girl, also in vest, chalwar
and veil, and bangles and collar, lifted her tray of spoons and sugars.
But I turned away. She was not summoned. The girls, white skinned, were
a matched set of slaves, one for the black wine, one for it's sugars."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 105
SUL:
a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable.
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"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."
Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 80
SULLAGE:
"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." Book 3, Priest
Kings of Gor, page 45
"The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy,
golden-brown, vine-born fruit of the golden-leaved sul plant; the curled,
red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue
secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant, which grows
best in sandy soil." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
TABUK:
one horned, similar to an antelope. yellowish in color.
"Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one
of the one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright
Ka-la-na thickets of Gor. The antelope's back had been broken, apparently
in the tarn's strike, and its neck and head lolled aimlessly to one side."
Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 146
"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 sixtusked wild
boar of Gor's temperate forests." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 76
TA GRAPES:
purple grapes.
"The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards
of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, Page 45
TAMBER CLAM:
"They are probably false stones, I said, amber droplets, the pearls of
the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and
cut in Ar for trade with ignorant souther peoples." Book 4, Nomads of Gor,
page 20
TARSK:
similar to a pig.
"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 sixtusked wild
boar of Gor's temperate forests." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 76
TASTA:
a soft candy on a stick.
"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." Book 22,
Dancer of Gor, page 81
TOSPIT:
a yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking similar to a peach.
"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." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 149
TURNIPS:
"The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, 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." Book 5,
Assassin of Gor, page 168
"Dorna the Proud, said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes,
potatoes and bread into the feed trough. Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 155
"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, berries, onions,
tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable called ,
Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes,
of sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned,
thick skinned. sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width,
the interior of which is yellowish, fiberous and heavily seeded." Book
10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
TURPAH:
a tree parasite.
"The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy,
golden-brown, vine-born fruit of the golden-leaved sul plant; the curled,
red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue
secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant, which grows
best in sandy soil." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
TUMITS:
a large, flightless carniverous birds of the plains, often hunted and eaten
by the Nomadic people of Gor.
"Tumits are large, flightless carniverous birds of the plains, often hunted
and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos,
the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night." Book
4, Nomads of Gor, page 2
VERR:
a goat-like animal.
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
VOSK SORP:
a shellfish.
"They are probably false stones, I said, amber droplets, the pearls of
the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and
cut in Ar for trade with ignorant souther peoples." Book 4, Nomads of Gor,
page 20
VULO:
a small pigeon-like bird
"She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domestic pigeons
raised for eggs and meat" Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 1
"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." Book 10, Tribesmen
of Gor, page 47 - 48
VULO EGGS:
eggs of the vulos
"She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domestic pigeons
raised for eggs and meat" Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 1
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan ..." Book
7, Slavegirl of Gor, page 73
WHITE GRUNT EGGS:
similar to caviar.
"... and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered,
black, tiny eggs of the white grunt." Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, page
275
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