| Foods of Gor |
| Gorean Food - Grains: Black Bread.....Baked from Gorean grains, heavy and dark Pasta....Book25 pg 290...Reference to noodles, there is pasta on Gor! Rence, pith of...Edible (both raw and cooked) part of rence, it along with fish is the staple in rence growers diet. Also sometimes used for caulking. Sa-tarna...(Lit. life-daughter) baked, brewed, mashed, ground. A grain, yellow in color. It is a staple of Gor. It is brewed into Paga. It is also ground and used to bake the Sa-Tarna Bread that is a staple food at every Gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into six sections. Gorean Food - Veg & Fruits Fruits: Blueberries...Smuggled to Gor from earth. Very rare. Celane melon...Cantaloupe Cherries...Tyros cherries, famous Dates...A staple of the diet of the Tahari Tribesmen. They are sold in a tef (a handful with the 5 fingers closed; a tefa is 6 tefs (a small basket); Five such baskets constitute a huda. In large compressed bricks, they are used in trade. From the City of Tor. Ka-la-na ...fruit - eaten, made into Ka-la-na Wine Larma...It is sometimes called the pit fruit, because of its large single stone. Fried larma with a browned honey sauce Larma, succulent...Succulent, juicy, fruit; 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. Larma, apple-like...Single-seeded apple-like fruit; a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed; commonly called pit fruit Melon...Yellowish red-striped spheres Merlot grapes...A darker grape, used to make Merlot wine. Olives...Red olives from Tyros Peaches...Similar to earth peaches Pit-fruit...Hard larma, a firm, single-seeded, apple-like fruit unlike the segmented, juicy Ram berries...Small, reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small seeds. Small, purple colored berries native to Gor. Eaten raw, jams, pies Redfruit...A sweet fruit that is similar in texture and taste to the earth apple. Ta-grapes...Similar to Earth grapes; purple in color or white, and grown in the vineyards of Cos Tospit...Grows on bushes small yellow peach-like fruit. a bitter, juicy citrus fruit, similar to a lemon with a skin more like a husk. It is about the size of a plum. It is very bitter, but edible. The juice of the tospit is mixed with other fruit juices for a citrus drink. It is used as a garnish in the drink kal-da. To be eaten, it is candied or cut up and dipped in honey. Its name comes from the large number of seeds it contains. Tospit has two uses. The first as a food, the second as a target in quiva throwing games. Vegetables: Miscellaneous; peas, beans, tomatoes, squash, etc. ...From seed imported from Earth. Kes...A shrub, blue secondary roots are salty. ingredient in sullage. Kort...A large, brownish-skinned, thick-rinded, sphere-shaped vegetable usually 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish and fibrous, and heavily seeded; rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg Sul ...Principle ingredient in sullage. Tuberous root of the sul plant a starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit. Can also be baked, or sliced and fried - similar to a potato, except grows above ground. Tur-pah...An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; vegetable - ingredient in sullage Spices and Candy: Chocolate...Made from the coca beans, comes from the far south. Normally brewed into a drink in the finer establishment, expensive Tasta...Sweet, succulent candy on a stick; normally found in parks, promenades and popular events. Possibly coated with chocolate or fudge. Typical flavors include mint, licorice, fruit flavors, peppermint, etc. Spices...nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, spikenard, pepper, SugarSaltRed salt - Some salt mines at Kasra and Tor, 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. A delicacy White Salt - comes from regular salt mines Yellow Salt - comes from the sea, and from Klima |