The Kitchen

-A-

- Ale - Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to a beer or ale. Brewed from the grains of Gor and hops imported from Earth in the early years. Usually served from a cask, in a tankard or a horn, cold or room temperature. -"The Forkbeard himself, now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been the measure of five gallons." -Marauders p. 82

- Apricot - apparently identical to the apricot of Earth; references exist of the fruit being sold in marketplaces of the Tahari. -Tribesmen p. 45

- Artic Gant Eggs - eggs of the migratory Arctic gant, when frozen, they are eaten like apples. -Beasts p. 196

-B-

- Bazi Tea - "Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and highly sugared. It gives strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them, by making them sweat, as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three small cups at a time, carefully measured." -Tribesmen p. 37

- Beans - no description given - Marauders p. 81

- Biscuits - a dried pressed biscuit described as baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour. - Savages p. 328

- Black Bread - baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey. - Hunters p. 13

- Blackwine - coffee, traditionally served with white and yellow sugars and bosk milk or cream. It asked for second slave it means to serve it black. Served in small clay cups. - "It is drunk in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being much drunk in other Gorean cities...Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls. It was extremely strong and bitter, but it was hot and unmistakably, it was coffee...Thentis does not trade the beans for blackwine. " -Assassins p. 106

- Bondmaid Gruel - porridge served to bondmaids in Torvaldsland made of dampened Sa-Tarna and raw fish. - Marauders p. 67

- Bosk - large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served. p. 45 - Priest-Kings p. 45

- Butter - churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr. - Marauders p. 81

-C-

- Cabbage - no description given - Marauders p. 81

- 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 - Dancer p. 81

- Carrot - no description given - Tribesmen p. 37

- Cheese - Pressed from the milk of the Bosk they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds - Assassin p. 168

- Cherries - grown in Tyros - Beasts p. 349

- Chocolate - "'This is warmed chocolate,' I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. 'Yes Mistress,' said the girl. 'It is very good,' I said." -Kajira p. 61

- Cosian Wingfish - 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. - Nomads p. 84-85

-D-

- Date - these come from the city of Tor. the staple of the diet of the Tahari Tribesmen; they are sold in a tef, or in large compressed bricks they are used in trade. - Tribesmen p. 46

-E-

- Eel - 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. - Magicians p. 428

- Egg - usually vulo eggs, however there are many varieties available depending on the region. - Nomads p. 1

-G-

- Garlic - no description given - Outlaw p. 29

- Grunt - Great Speckled - a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors. - Slave Girl p.360 - White-bellied - a large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish, its eggs are considered a delicacy, perhaps like caviar. -Marauders p. 59

-H-

- Honey - no description given, only that honey bees are raised - Marauders p. 81

-K-

- Ka-la-na - a very potent dry red wine made from the fruit of the ka-la-na tree. Served cold, or room temperature from bottles. - "I went to his locker near the mat and got out his ka-la-na flask, taking a long draught myself and then shoving it into his hands. He drained the flask in one drink, and wiped his hand across his beard, stained with the red juice of the fermented drink." -Tarnsman p. 168

- Kal-da - an alcoholic beverage made from ka-la-na wine, diluted with citrus juices such as tospit and larma, seasoned with spices, served hot, mulled over a fire in a copper kettle. Served in footed bowls. - "I had hardly settled myself behind the table when the proprietor had placed a large, fat pot of steaming kal-da before me. It almost burned my hands to lift the pot. I took a long, burning swig of the brew and though, on another occasion, I might have thought it foul, tonight it sang through my body like the bubbling fire it was, a sizzling, brutal irritant that tasted so bad and yet charmed me so much I had to laugh." - Outlaw p. 78

- Katch - a type of foliated vegetable, used as lettuce -Tribesmen p. 37

- Kes Shrub - a shrub, the salty roots are a main ingredient in sullage - Priest-Kings p. 45

- Kort - served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg, it is a large, brown skinned, round vegetable of the Tahari, the interior is yellow, fibrous and heavily seeded. - Tribesmen p. 37

-L-

- Larma - two types, the first being a succulent, juicy, segmented fruit, the second being a rinded hard fruit, rather like an apple, with one large pit in the center, commonly served fried drizzled with honey sauce - Players p. 267

- Liqueur - served in small glasses, these flavorful liqueurs are a favorite in Turia - "'It is time for the liqueurs, slave,' I told her. 'Yes Master,' she whispered. 'Ah,' said Glyco, 'The liqueurs!' First from the kitchen, bearing her tray, came the voluptuous slave of Aemilanus. Behind her, too with her tray, came the little dark-haired slave. In a moment, both were deferentially serving. The collared softness of the dark-haired girl well set off the metal of the tray, and the small multicolored glasses and bottle upon it." - Guardsman p. 254

-M-

- Mead - made with fermented honey, water and spice. A very thick drink, normally served in a large animal horn, hot or cold. - "In the north generally, mead, a drink made with fermented honey and water, and often spices and such, tends to be favored over paga." -Vagabonds p. 16

- Melon - yellowish, red-striped spheres - Tribesmen p. 45

- Milk - verr, bosk or powdered - "Too, I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk. We had finished the creams last night, and, in any event, it was unlikely they would have lasted the night. If I had wanted creams I would have had to have gone to the market. -Guardsman p. 295

- Mint Stick - no description given - Explorers p. 10

- Mushroom - no description given - Mercenaries p. 82

-N-

- Nutmeg - no description given - Tribesmen p. 48

- Nut - no description given - Tribesmen p. 47

-O-

- Olive - commonly from the city of Tor, also red olives, which come from the groves of Tyros. - Raiders p. 114

- Onion - no description given - Marauders p. 81

- Oyster - same as on Earth - Captive p. 301

-P-

- Paga - a grain based, distilled hard liquor akin to Earth whiskey. Served cold, room temperature or hot. Served in footed bowls. - "I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple paga tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Kor-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of paga, a strong fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter." -Outlaw p. 74-75

- Palm Wine - no description given - Explorers p. 115

- Parsit Fish - a silvery fish having brown stripes, in Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south. - Marauders p. 28

- Pastry - no description given - Tribesmen p. 27

- Peach - yellow, as on Earth - Fighting Slave p. 275

- Peas - no description given - Marauders p. 81

- Peppers - no description given - Tribesmen p. 47

- Plum - no description given - Tribesmen p. 45

-R-

- Radish - no description given - Marauders p. 102

- Raisin - no description given - Tribesmen p. 37

- Ramberry - small, succulent, purple berries - Captive p. 207

- Redfruit - similar to apples

- Rence - a plant for all things, the grain can be eaten and the stems used for paper or woven into cloth, the pith may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a pancake. - Raiders p. 7

- Rence Beer - probably much like moonshine - "At such times, there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and whitish pith of the plant." -Raiders p. 18

-S-

- Salt - red and white, though there are references to "yellow" as being from the south (Assassins p. 86) - "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 p. 238

- Sa-tarna - grain, specifically wheat, usually described as being used in bread - Raiders p. 114

- Sa-tassna - a general term for meat - Tarnsman p. 43

- Slave Porridge - a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish, see also "bond-maid gruel" - Assassin p. 126

- Sorp - a shellfish, like an oyster - Nomads p. 20

- Sugar - yellow and white, probably raw and processed - "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." - Tribesmen p. 89

- Sul - golden brown, vine borne fruit, main ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable like a potato, served sliced and fried. - Raiders p. 219

- Sullage - a soup made from suls, tur-pah and kes, along with pretty well anything else, a type of Gorean gumbo - Priest-Kings p. 44

- Sul-paga - alcoholic beverage, made from suls, akin to Earth vodka. Served cold, room temperature or hot. Served in footed bowls. - "Sul paga is, when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is clear as water...the still with it's tanks and pipes lay within the village, that of Tabuk's Ford, in which Thurnus, or host was caste leader. Excellent, said my Master, sipping the sul paga. He could have been commenting only on the potency of the drink, for sul paga is almost tasteless. One does not guzzle sul paga. Last night one of the men had held my head back and forced me to swallow a mouthful. In moments, things had gone black and I had fallen unconscious." - Slave Girl p. 134

-T-

- Tabuk - gazelle-like creature, known for its meat and speed - Outlaw p. 76

- Ta Grapes - purple fruit from the isle of Cos - Priest-Kings p. 45

- Tarsk - similar to the pig, often roasted whole - Dancer p. 106

- Ta-wine - a dry white wine made from the ta-grapes from Cos. Served chilled or room temperature in goblets. - "It was Ta wine, from the Ta grape grown on the terraces of Cos." - Fighting Slave p. 30

- Tospit - small, wrinkled, peach-like fruit, very bitter, sometimes served with honey, used on ship voyages to prevent scurvy, they almost always have an odd number of seeds, though the long stemmed variety may be even seeded, the Wagon People often bet on the number of seeds - Nomads p. 59

- Tumits - a large carnivorous bird of the plains, is hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor, traditionally hunted with bolos the sport lies in whether the hunter or the bird gets to eat that night. - Nomads p. 2

- Turian Wine - highly sugared and flavored wine - "I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprints on their surface." - Nomads p. 83

- Turnip - grown on the Tahari oasis - Tribesmen p. 37

- Tur-pah - an edible tree parasite, curly red leaves, grows on the Tur tree -Priest-Kings p. 45

-V-

- Vangis - no description given - Kajira p. 314

- Verr - goat like animal, used for meat and milk - "In the cafes, I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod." - Tribesmen p. 48

- Vulo - a poultry bird, like a pigeon, used for meat and eggs - Nomads p. 1

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