BOKfoods

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Foods

ale: gorean ale is closer to a Urth honey lager than to an ale or beer. a deep gold in color, and brewed from the grains of Gor and hops imported from Urth in the early years, served in a tankard or mug.

apple: Nay specific description given, but mentioned in the books. Used in Kassar South for eating, baking and a variety of things.
When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples.
Beasts of Gor, p 196

apricots: A fruit used to eat or for various cakes, pies, cookies, or sauces. Must be strained for use in sauces and or cooked slowly as fruit can lean toward a thready side. Can be dried (leathered)for a quick on the run suppliment.
I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 45

bazi tea: very aromatic tea brewed fresh from bazi leaves. served hot and heavily sugared in three tiny cups (similar to Urth's espresso cups) and drunk in rapid succession.

beans: Used in various dishes in Kassar South. A vegtable.
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, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, ...
Tribesmen of Gor, p 37

biscuits : The biscuits severed in Kassar South are made daily and the welcoming scent fills the plains. Made from yellow sa-tarna grains and served with honey or various jams and jellies.

black bread: a soft, full flavored bread made from gorean grains. black bread is heavy and dark. it is commonly 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, p 13

black wine (Urth Coffee): rich, aromatic, hot drink brewed from the fresh, dark beans grown on the mountains of Thentis. thought to have come from Urth on a slave acquisition run, it is traditionally served with red and yellow sugars and bosk milk, in tiny cups. (see also second slave, different page)

blueberries: Nay specifically mentioned but berries was given a general reference, so they are used for festives occasions and upon Ubars request.most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons
Tribesmen of Gor, p 37

bond-maid gruel: see slave porridge

Bosk: Large, shaggy, long horned bovine, similar to the Urth cow, or Yak. It is served as beef is served. To the Kassar South Wagon People, the Bosk is very revered, and used for much of Their needs of use. Skins are used for leathers, boots, pouches sheaths, wagon covering, botas, etc. The meats are spiced, dryed, canned and stored as well as cooked for serving.
"The meat was a steak cut from the loin, a huge shaggy long horned bovine, meat is seared, as thick as the forearm of a Warrior on a small iron grill on a kindling of charcoal cylinders so that the thin margin on the outside was black, crisp and flaky sealed within by the touch of the fire-the blood rich flesh hot and fat with juice"
The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an ox like creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skin cover their bodies."
Nomads of Gor, pages 4-5

Bosk Broth: This is used especially when O/one is in need of sufficent nurishment due to wounds or illness. Also used in the wintering to warm and give O/one a lift.
With them, her hair combed, warmed with a broth of dried bosk meat, heated in a copper kettle, over a fire on a rimmed iron plate, legged, set on another plate on the stern quarter, her hands tied behind her with simple binding fiber, had gone Aelgifu.
Book 9, Marauders of Gor Chapter 5:

bosk cheese: a sharp cheese in taste which travels well and resists molds due to its hard rind.

bosk milk: milk from the bosk, it is rich, thick, and sweet.

breeding wine: a sweet beverage which counteracts the effects of slave wine, making a slavegirl fertile. also refered to as second wine. (see slave wine)
butter: Churned from the cream of the Bosk or the Verr. Butter churning is both a slave's and a FW's task in Kassar South. This is kept chilled.

carrots: A vegtable used in many delicious dishes and salads for the health concious gorean. But in Kassar South, carrots are NAY used.
and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, ...
Tribesmen of Gor, p 37

caviar: Yes gorean caviar. The black tiny eggs of the white grunt. Severed in Kassar South in small silver bowl to be eaten with a silver spoon. As in Kassar South the gold is reserved for the Ubar to eat from.
Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, 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.
Fighting Slave of Gor, pp 275-276

celane melon: Sweet Cantaloupe. Served on a plate or platter, sometimes garnished with Ta-grapes. There are also various other melons available upon request.
Buy melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me.
Tribesmen of Gor, p 45

cheese: (Bosk) This is firm cheese and just right for slicing for sandwiches or snacks.
(Verr): Mild tasting and soft, excellent with fruit or melted for sauces. Usually served with bread, or meats, as a garnish to enhance the flavor.
(Kailiauk)Firm as is Bosk. Good for slicing. Used most by the Barren people.

cherry: A berry of sorts. Served alone or in various deserts. No specific 'Gorean' description offered. However they are mentioned as coming from the Ilsles of Tyros. Served in Kassar South in a scrumptious cherry cheese cake.
With the tip of my tongue I touched her lips. Some slave cosmetics are flavored. "Does Master enjoy my taste?" she asked. "The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I know," she said. "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said.
Beasts of Gor, 28:

chokecherrys: No specific 'Gorean' description offered. In Kassar South the chockcherries are made and canned to a jelly to adorn sweet cakes and sa-tarna bread toast. They also are used in making a Wagon Peoples form of pemmican for KS Warriors as They guard the plains.
Crushed fruit, usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat. The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a quick energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable, long lasting stamina protein.
Blood Brothers of Gor, 4:46

cal-da: see ka-la-na

chocolate: Needs nay introductions. It is sweet and delicious and may be used for making frostings or sauces for special deserts of Kassar South. A FW and slave favorite!
"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."
Kajira of Gor, p 61

corn: A vegtable served in many different preparations. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist within their domains, she said. The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live. They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.
Savages of Gor, p 233

cosian wingfish: Named for it's ability to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. Its livers are considered a delicacy, and the slave who cooks this trained in the art of gourmet. A tiny blue salt water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fins.
Now this, Saphrar the merchant was telling me, is the braised liver of the blue, four-spines Cosian wingfish.
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 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-spined 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 delicacies of delicacies.
Nomads of Gor, p 23

dates: Some of these come from the City of Turia. The main come from Tor. A date nutbread with Verr butter or cheese is served in Kassar South and done with perfection. A must to try.
The principal export of the oases are dates and pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than a century. A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds.
Tribesmen of Gor, 2:37

eel: Found in the waters of gor and cooked in a variety of ways. Baby eels(elvers) are sure to delight a Hungry KS Warrior with a flare for delicacies.
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.
Raiders of Gor, p 114

flavored ice: Made at Kassar South in the wintering months, for Those wishing a freshing beverage with a different twist.
The High Initiate had risen to his feet and accepted a goblet from another Initiate, probably containing minced flavored ices, for the day was warm.
Free women, here and there, were delicately putting tidbits beneath their veils. Some even lifted their veils somewhat to drink of the flavored ices. Some low-caste free women drank through their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on the rep-cloth.
Assassin of Gor, p 141

gant: (Marsh)A long-legged marsh bird with a piping cry. The meat is roasted, baked, or fried, alone or in various dishes. The eggs are used, as well. (Jungle)Related to the marsh gant, but inhabits the rainforest inland of Schendi. The eggs are used here also.
" 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."
Raiders of Gor, page 44

gant eggs: The eggs of the "artic gant" are frozen and eaten as a apple.
I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. They nest in the mountaim of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological relation to the Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples.
Beasts of Gor, p 196

garlic: Used most to season other dishes and considered a spice. However is also used in medicinal purposes.
I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.
Outlaw of Gor, p 29

gint: A small freshwater fish that has capabilities of walking on and or water. Very good but is only 6 inches long. However the Giant Gint found in western Gor with its four spined dorsal fin is much more the meal and the opponent.
honey: A sweet suppliment used throughout gor, sometimes added in mead for cooking or to sweeten a drink.

onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

kailiauk: Similar to an Urthen Buffalo. Roasted, cut to steaks, stew meat or dried to jerky.
Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder.
Blood Brothers of Gor, 4:46

ka-la-na wine: a very potent wine, ranging in color from white to gold to golden red. distilled from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree, the best and sweetest comes from the Plains of Ka-la-na. This drink often symbolizes romantic love and is generally served in a goblet, chilled or at room temperature.
I picked some Ka-la-na fruit and opened one of the packages of rations. Talena returned and sat beside me on the grass. I shared the food with her.
Tarnsman of Gor, 8:

kal-da: A hot drink made of distilled ka-la-na wine and mixed with fruit juices (such as tospit and larma) and hot spices. usually served in a mug like beer, it is considered a peasant drink.
kanda: a shrub of the Gorean desert; a lethal poison can be extracted from its roots, while chewing the leaves has an addictive narcotic effect

katch : Like an "urthen" lettuce. Used in a variety of salads in Kassar South.
a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch
Tribesmen of Gor, p 37

kes: A shrub whose salty blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage. May also be added to rence paper bags when roasting Parsit fish and in roast. The salty blue roots are Nay used in Kassar South.
the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil.
Priest Kings of Gor, p 45

kort: A rinded fruit of the Tahari. Served sliced with melted cheese,and sprinkled with nutmeg.
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.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

larma: A juicy bittersweet yet succulent fruit. Like a grapefruit with a brittle rind. Sometimes sliced and fried, and served with browned honey sauce. Offering a larma, real or imaginary by a slave girl to a Master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped.
" 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."
Raiders Gor, p 219

Marsh shark: Large and carnivorous found in freshwater marshes. it is sliced thick into steaks or cubed for marsh stew.

Mint Sticks: A candy eaten by Kassar South Frees and given to deserving slaves.
On the tray too, was the metal vessel which contained black wine, steaming and bitter from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enamled 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.
Explorers of Gor, p 10

Mushrooms: Larger than Uthen varieties. Sliced in various dishes or served whole stuffed with cooked tarsk and peppers at Kassar South.
I was particularly fond of stuffed mushrooms. "What are they stuffed with?" I asked Hurtha. "Sausage." he said. "Tarsk?" I asked. "Of course." he said.
Mercenaries of Gor, p 83

Nutmeg: A spice used on kort and in cooking various delicacies to make even the Ubar of Kassar South happy.
a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

Nuts: Used for a special vulo stew and to eat plain with a Warriors paga.
I had returned late to the compartment. Mis Blake Allen, head to the floor, knelt when I entered. 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.
Tribesmen of Gor, p 47

Olives: Are commonly from the City of Tor (variety called Torian Olives. Red olives come from the groves on Tyros.

Onions: Found in various places on Gor. The prairie onion being the most common in Kassar South.
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey"
Tribesmen of Gor, p 48

Oysters: Similar to Urhten oysters and often made in a stew or eaten as an aphrodisiac for sexual appetites.(Also see Sorp)
Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk
Captive of Gor, p 301

Parsit: A silvery fish having brown stripes. Can be breaded, cubed, fried, baked and smoked. In Kassar South, paga-batter parsit nuggets are served with rice and better than any fish and chips served elsewhere in gor.
The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands. Trade to the south, of course is largely in furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish.
Marauders of Gor, p 28

Peaches: A gorean peach is yellow in color when ripe and is viewed as larma when served to a Master as a plea for His use. Kassar South FM are known to eat a peach for hours.
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 larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh.
Tribesmen of Gor, pp 27, 28

Peas: As the common green gorean pea is grown and served. Other peas are also used such as butter, black eyed and cowpeas. They are perpaired in a variety of ways in Kassar South.
I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas, and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine.
Assassin of Gor, p 87
I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.
Outlaw of Gor, p 29

Pemmican: High energy food mixture of the Red Savages, made mainly of dried kailiauk meat and fruit. In Kassar South it is made for the Warriors as They keep watch of the plains, however is made with bosk fat and meat.

Peppers: Used in various ways. Stuffed, sliced, dried. Used for seasoning the KS FM's dishes.
with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted;
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

Plums: A fruit to be eaten alone or in a variety of ways.
I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums.
Tribesmen of Gor, 2:45

Pumpkin and Squash: Used for pies and bars. Yet the squash is baked with butter dripping along the meat of the rich insides. Mentioned as grown at least in the Barrens area.
They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.
Savages of Gor, p 233

paga (abbr. of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, lit. 'pleasure of the life daughter'): a grain based, distilled hard liquor made from Sa-tarna, it is similar to Urth whiskey and is symbolic of physical love. depending on the preferences of the inn owner, may be thick and a bit chunky, or smooth and clear. It is served warm in a footed bowl in the tradition of Japanese Saki. The slave kneeling in the pleasure slave position touches the bowl first to the slaves heart between her breasts to denote devotion and then to her lips. It is then presented cupped in her hands above her bowed head, eyes lowered in submission.

Radish: A vegtable used most in salads and to season. In Gor two varieties are mentioned, the 'sphere' and the 'cylinder' varieties. In Kassar South neither variety is used as they are of the dirt.
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, onion 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 inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded.
Tribesmen of Gor, p 37

Raisins: As the common earthen raisin sweet and to used for stews, deserts, cookies, pies, and to be eaten as is.
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey"
Tribesmen of Gor, p 48

Ram-berries: Small succulent purple Rence: A water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The grain may be broiled or ground into a paste and sweetened, this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake. Rence paper bags are used for roasting delicacies in various dishes.
"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."
Raiders Gor, p 44

Rice: As in Urthen rice this is kernels of a hard small nature, until cooked. Used in a variety of dishes, as a side compliment to many meats or in soup.
I then took bits of vulo from the bowl and held them out to the girl. I also put some rice in the palm of my hand, from which she took it. I heard Flaminius gasp in anger. "Do you object" I asked. His slave, before him, was eating from the hand of another man. To be sure, we had all eaten earlier, as well. Then, however, I had had Yanina eat from a pan on the floor.
Players of Gor, 19:379-380

River Shark: Narrow, black, carnivorous fish with a triangular dorsal fin. Very vicious but excellent taste when cut to steaks. Plenitful in Kassar South and a welcome opponant for the Warriors to catch!berries grown on thorny bushes. Use for pies, cakes, filling, jam, jelly or as a savory treat.
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.
Captive of Gor, p 305

Redfruit: Similar in flesh and taste to apples of Urth.

Sa-Tarna bread: Pale and soft bread made from Sa-Tarna grain baked in a circular shape, marked into six sections. A staple in the Gorean diet. Baked daily in Kassar South.

Sa-Tassna : This gorean term refers to all meat and can also refer to food in general.
"Sa-Tassna in the Gorean language literally means 'life mother'. It is synonymous with the word meat."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 43

Salt: Salt comes in three varieties, red, yellow and white. Most salt in mined in Klima. Torvoldlanders get their salt from sea water or seaweed. It is also brought in by traders.
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. The table of Cernus itself, of course, was regarded as being above the bowls.
Assassin of Gor, p 89

Salt Thassa Fish: A small fish from Thassa. Serve baked, steamed or broiled.
sand kaiila milk: reddish and salty. high in ferrous sulfate.

Snails: Larger than Urthen snails and altho eatible are used mostly for bait. In Black Dagger Inn however a dish of "Gorean Escargot" is a dish that speaks for itself.
Once the Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown overboard. Returning to me he held one of the snails, whose shell he crushed between his fingers, and sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing it. He then threw the shell fragments overboard. "They are edible," he said. "And we use them for fish bait."
Marauders of Gor

Sorp: A shellfish, common especially in the Vosk river. Similar to an Urth oyster. "Tambor Gulf Oysters" They are served raw, steamed,baked, smoked, or in stews. Vosk sorp are smaller than Tambor Gulf Oysters and they produce pearls. Not a common Gorean food.

Spices: There are a variety of spices used in the savory dishes made in Kassar South.
"Do you smell it?" asked Ulafi. "Yes," I said. "It is cinnamon and cloves, is it not?" "Yes," said Ulafi, "and other spices, as well."
Explorers of Gor p 98

Sugar: Two varieties are commonly used, white sugar and yellow sugar. There are mentions of other sugars. There are always other beliefs of the sugars, just remember, "NEVER argue with a Free."
Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of topsit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars.
Rogue of Gor, p 132
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
Tribesmen of Gor, p 89

Sul: Starchy golden brown vine borne vegetable. A tuberous vegetable similar to the potato. Often served baked or sliced and fried. The principle ingredient in "sullage". They are NAY served in Kassar South.
"With a serving prong, she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Guardsman of Gor, p 234
and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese.
Assassin of Gor, p 168

Sullage: A soup made principally from suls, tur-pah and kes, along with whatever else may be handy. Bosk and tarsk are always a good filler to add. This is nay made in Kassar South.
sa-tarna gruel: thick paste of boiled sa-tarna also known as bond-maid gruel. (see also slave porridge)

Sa-Tassna (lit. 'life-mother'): meat; food in general
second wine: see breeding wine
sip root: a bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slave wine.

second wine: see breeding wine

sip root: a bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slave wine.

slave porridge: a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel', and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish. Served as a cold unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland it is called "bond-maid gruel" and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish
To Gorm, he said, "Feed her on the gruel of bond-maids."
Marauders of Gor, Chapter Five

slave wine: 1)a black, bitter beverage, brewed primarily from sip root, that acts as a contraceptive; its effect is instantaneous and lasts almost indefinitely. this wine is given a slave by their Master. (see also: breeding wine). 2) watered down sweetened ka-la-na.

sorp: a shellfish common to the Vosk and other rivers. the sorp is similar to an oyster; and like oysters, it produces pearls and is frequently used in making soups and stews.

sul: a tuberous vine-borne fruit similar to the Urth potato. Often served sliced and fried, it is also the principal ingredient in sullage and sul-paga.

sul-paga: alcoholic beverage made from suls; akin to vodka
sullage: a soup made prinicipally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy.

Tabuk: A one horned tawny hided antelope of Gor. Delicious, tender meat, good for roast and steaks. The hides are used in clothing, boots, and pouches.
"my mouth watered for a tabuk steak"
Outlaw of Gor, p 76

Ta-grapes: Similar to the grapes of Urth. This succulent treat comes from the Isle of Cos.

tamber gulf oysters: found in the Tamber Gulf, they are served raw or baked.

ta-wine: a dry wine made from Ta grapes from the Isle of Cos, served at room temperature, or warm, in a tankard or goblet.

Tarsk: Similar to the Urth pig, having a bristly mane, which runs down it's spine to the base of the tail. Meat is roasted and commonly stuffed with suls and peppers. Also sliced and fried as bacon. The lard is used for various things and the hide when dried and tanned makes a good sheath cover.
"if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests."
Assassin of Gor, page 87

teslik: a plant whose extract is the active ingredient in breeding wine.
toos: a crab-like organism with overlapping plating; inhabits the Nest and scavenges on discarded fungus spores.

toos: a crab-like organism with overlapping plating; inhabits the Nest and scavenges on discarded fungus spores.

Tospit: A bitter, juicy citrus fruit. Small and peach like, yellow in in color and often dried and candied. Used also for Kassar South games.
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.
Nomads of Gor, 12:149

Tumits: A large carnivorous bird of the plains that is hunted and eaten by the Wagon People of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos. The sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night. It is excellent when roasted or made in a Tumit soup.

Tur-pah: An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves, grown in the tur tree. It is a main ingredient in sullage. Also added for garnish or in other dishes.
the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees....
Priest Kings of Gor, p 45

Turnip : A desert vegetable. These are nay used in Kassar South.
They supplement their diets by picking berries and digging wild turnips, said the first lad.
Blood Brothers of Gor, p 124

Verr: A goat like animal from the mountains of Thentis. The meat can be eaten, and used in various ways. It's milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. However, Verr meat is best when steamed and wrapped in leaves for the whole day. This prevents it from being bitter and stringy. Store it after wrapped in oiled rep-cloth in the pit.
"In the cafes, I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

Vosk Carp: A large carp from the river Vosk. Roll this in sa-tarna bread batter and fry over the fires . Tastey.

Vulo: Tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon. They are kept in pens, raised like Urth chickens and also exist in the wild. They are used for meat and its eggs which are very small. Meat is roasted, baked, stewed, or used in soups. Eggs are fried, boiled or pickled. Keep the shells to feed back to them as it makes thier shell more durable.
"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo..."
Hunters of Gor, p 34

She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat"
Nomads of Gor, page 1

"It is the spiced brain of the Turian vulo," Saphrar explained. I shot the spiced brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong"
-Nomads of Gor, page 83

"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan"
Slave Girl of Gor, p 73

White Grunt: A large white fish of the north waters of Gor. Prepaired in a variety of ways from steamed to fried. True eating pleasure for the fish tasters pallett.
Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
Marauders of Gor, p 59