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The Foods of Gor
Apricots:
fruit.
Tribesmen of Gor pg 45
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Beans:
"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, 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, page 37
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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."
Captive of Gor, page 208
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Bond-Maid Gruel:
a porridge served in Torvaldsland made of dampened Sa-Tarna and raw fish.
Marauders of Gor pg 67
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Bosk:
A large, ox like animal that provides meat and milk, as well as hides and furs for tents and clothing, and is mostly associated with the Wagon Peoples of the plains of Turia.
"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
"With a serving prong, she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Guardsman of Gor, page 234
"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo..."
Hunters of Gor, page 34
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Bread:
This is the yellow Gorean bread made from Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked in round loaves and is a staple of most Gorean meals. "I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot"
Outlaw of Gor, page 76
"He removed my hand from the binding fiber. I reached out for him. He thrust a huge piece of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread into my hands."
Captive of Gor, page 114
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Butter:
Made from the milk of the verr or bosk... " Olga," he said, "there is butter to be churning in the churning shed." "Yes, my Jarl," said she, holding her skirt up, running from the place of our exercises."
Marauders of Gor, page 101
"These females," she said, indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, "could be better employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter."
Marauders of Gor, page 156
"I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried or butter made."
Marauders of Gor, page 81
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Candy:
"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."
Dancer of Gor, page 81
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Cheese:
Made from the milk of the bosk or verr. "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
"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, page 114
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Chocolate:
first cocoa beans probably came from Earth, Cosians obtain them in the tropics, rich and creamy.
Kajira of Gor pg 61
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Cosian Wingfish:
Called due to its ability to fly above the waters of Cos for short distances. It's livers are considered a delicacy. It is described in the quote below. "'Now this,' Saphrar the merchant was telling me, 'is the braised liver of the blue four-spired 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 the 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-spired 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 delicacy of delicacies."
Nomads of Gor, pages 84-85
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Dates:
"The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
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Eggs, artic gant:
when frozen are eaten like apples.
Beasts of Gor pg 196
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Eels:
"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, page 114
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Fish (White Grunt):
"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, page 59
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Honey:
"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
"I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried or butter made."
Marauders of Gor, page 81
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Katch:
foliated leafy vegetable
Tribesmen of Gor pg 37
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Kes:
One of the principal ingredients of Sullage, a common Gorean soup. "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."
Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
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Kort:
A large, brownish-skinned, thick-rinded, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually 6" in width. The interior is yellowish and fibrous, and heavily seeded; a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.
Tribesman of Gor pg 37
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Larma:
It is said that this fruit when served is a silent plee for rape."On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion, to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood.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."
Tribesmen of Gor, pages 27-28
"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."
Renegades of Gor pg 437
firm, single-seeded, apple like 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. .
Players of Gor pg 267
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Marsh Gant:
"I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of Rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks."
Raiders of Gor, page 4
"The cries of the marsh gants were about us now. I saw that her hunting had been successful. There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft."
Raiders of Gor, page 10
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Melons:
"Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
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Mul Fungus:
Eaten by the Muls (slaves) in the Nest of the Priest Kings. Bland and tasteless, fibrous sort of matter "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."
Priest Kings of Gor, page 109
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Nuts:
fruit; ingredient for vulo stew
Tribesmen of Gor pg 47
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Onion:
vegetable
Tribesmen of Gor pg 46
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Olives:
From the city of Tor "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, page 168
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Pastries:
"On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards."
Guardsman of Gor, page 239
"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, page 238
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Parsit Fish:
"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, page 28
"Tomorrow night," said Ivar Forkbeard to her, " I shall have your ransom money." She did not deign to speak to him, but looked away. Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 56
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Peas:
"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, page 87
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Peppers:
vegetable
Tribesmen of Gor pg 47
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Pith:
stem of the rence plant; edible; most common staple in rence growers diet; edible both raw and cooked
Raiders of Gor pg 7
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Plum:
fruit
Tribesmen of Gor pg 45
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Raisins:
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
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Ram-Berries:
small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small seeds.
Captive of Gor pg 305
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Red Olives:
"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, page 114
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Rence:
A water plant which is used for food, pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The pith (or center of the stem) is edible it is made into a paste or porridges, or made into rence beer and drank from flagons. "The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further it�s pith is edible"
Raiders of Gor, page 7
"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, page 25
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Rence Paste:
wet; when fried on a flat stone it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds
Raiders of Gor pg 25
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Salt:
"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
yellow salt
Nomads of Gor pg 253
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Sa-Tarna Bread:
baked in small, round loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. Some smaller loaves are divided into four divisions. These division are a function, presumably, of their simplicity, the ease with which they may be made, the ease with which, even without explicit measurement, equalities may be produced.
Kajira of Gor pg 216
yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves.
Outlaw of Gor pg 76
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Sa-Tassna:
"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."
Tarnsman of Gor, pages 43-44
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Slave Gruel:
dried, precooked meal, water is then mixed with it, forms a sort of cold porridge or gruel.
Kajira of Gor pg 257
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Spices:
Garlic, nutmeg, salt and other spices and flavorings are mentioned "..a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
"Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by the children of the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of the mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 46
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Sugar:
"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 of Gor pg 89
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Sul:
the sul is a large, thick skinned, starchy, yellow fleshed, root vegetable. a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried in butter and salted.
Dancer of Gor pg 80
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Sullage:
a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients and, 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 starchy, golden brown vine borne fruit of the golden leafed sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil.
Priest-Kings of Gor pg 44 - 45
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Tabuk:
"They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift; many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted antelope-like quadruped of the south. On the other hand, they too were distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. A charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous animal."
Beasts of Gor, page 152
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."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 145
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Ta-grape:
A Gorean grape - "I retrieved a grape about the size of a small plum from the table before it could be cleared away. It was peeled and pitted, doubtless laboriously by female slaves. It was a Ta-Grape."
Players of Gor pg 291 - 292
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Tarsk:
The 6 tusked wild boar; it�s meat is pork-like "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
"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
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 of Gor, page 219
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Tasta:
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.
Dancer of Gor pg 81
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Tospit:
a small, wrinkled yellowish white peach like fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, They are bitter but edible.
Nomads of Gor pg. 59 rare, long-stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds.
Tribesmen of Gor pgs 45 & 46
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Tumits:
"I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless, carnivourous birds of the southern plains, was at hand..."
Nomads of Gor, page 331
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Tur-Pah:
a vine-like vegetable
Magicians of Gor pg 244
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Verr:
A goat-like animal raised for meat and milk; "The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk, was strong."
Savages of Gor, page 60
"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
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Vulo:
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
"I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth"
Nomad of Gor, page 84
"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo...I held the leg of the fried vulo toward one of the girls..."
Hunters of Gor, page 34
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Vulo Eggs:
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan"
Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
"Eta piled several of the hot, tiny eggs, earlier kept fresh in cool sand within the cave, on a plate, with heated yellow bread, for him."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
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