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Foods of Gor Some of these vegetables and fruits are also grown on Earth, such as: Peas, Carrots, Turnips, Garlic, Onions, Radishes, Nuts, Melons, Berries, Olives and Dates just to name a few, as well as common herbs and spices such as salt, garlic, cinnamon, mint, parsley and cloves, below you will find other foods of the Gorean world.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL SLAVES:

In the books of John Norman, slaves did not taste food or drink before serving. In fact, to drink before a Master was to sign the slave's death warrant. There were exceptions, but the slave was specifically COMMANDED to taste the drink to ensure there were no poisons. In fact, the drink was poisoned; the slave sent by the Kurii to kill Tarl Cabot aka Bosk of Port Kar, who was, at that time, an agent of the Priest Kings. Also, a slave's lips were never to touch where that of a Free drank.

The key is to be creative with these foods. Prepare stews and salads. Use garnishes.

Chokecherry:

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"

Apricots:

I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices.
"Tribesman of Gor" page45

Beans:

Mentioned in "Tribesman of Gor" page 37

Dates:

From the city of Tor.
"The principal export of the oasis are dates, or pressed-date bricks.""Tribesmen of Gor" page 37

A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa.
Mentioned in "Tribesman of Gor"

Ka-La-Na Fruit:

The fruit of the Ka-la-na tree; possibly similar to an Earth pear, used as a garnish and for making wines."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 23

"Over there," I said, "are some Ka-la-na trees. Wait here and I'll gather some fruit."
"Tarnsman of Gor"

Katch:

A foliated leaf vegetable (possibly a cabbage-type vegetable). "...a foliated, leaf vegtable, called Katch" "Tribesmen of Gor" page 37

Kes:

A shrub whose salty blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage.
"The principal ingredients of Sullage are.. 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

Kort:

A large, brown-skinned, thick-skinned sphere sphere-shaped vegetable, about 6 inches wide, yellow and fibrous inside, heavily seeded (most probably, like a yellow squash of Earth).
"...korts, a large brownish-skined,thick-skinned sphere sphere-shaped vegetable, about 6 inches wide, yellow and fibrous inside, heavily seeded.""Tribesmen of Gor" page 37

Larma:

hard:
The larma is lucious. 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. Once the shell has been broken through or removed, irrevocably, there is, you see, exposed, soft, vulnerable, juicy and helpless, the interior, in the fruit, the fleshy endocarp, in the woman, the slave.
"Renegades of Gor "

"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This ia a firm, single-seeded applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone.""Players of Gor" page 267

"I idly observed the dancer. Her eyes were on me. It seemed, in her hands, she held ripe fruits for me, lush larma, frsh picked... She touched the imaginary larma to her body, caressing her swaying beauty with it , and then, eyes piteous, held her hands forth as though begging me to accept the lush fruit.""Tibesmen of Gor" page 27-28

Melons:

Probably similar to cantelope.
Please note: celane melons are not found in the books by John Norman.

"Buy melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish red stripped spheres towards me."
"Tribesmen of Gor" page 45

Nuts:

Used in vulo stew as well as in other dishes.
Mentioned in "Tribesmen of Gor" page 47

Olives:

There are two varieties: those of Tor and the red skinned of Tyros. ".. the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torain olives, and two golden-bron, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese."
"Assasin of Gor" page 168

"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" page114

Onions:

Mentioned in "Tribesmen of Gor" page 47

Peaches:

Yellow fruit. "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" page 27-28

Peas:

Thought specifically called "Gorean peas" by Tarl Cabot, there was nothing mentioned giving specifics as to how they may differ from Earth peas.
Mentioned in "Assasin of Gor" page 87

Pit Fruit: aka hard larma

"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This ia a firm, single-seeded applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone."
"Players of Gor" page 267

Plums:

I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums.
"Tribesmen of Gor" page 45

Ram-berries:

These are small, reddish fruit, heavily seeded and similar to a plum that is native to Gor and used in making jams and pies, as well as serving as is in a bowl. "A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish-fruit with edibles seeds, not unlike plums save for the many seeds."
"Captive of Gor"page 305

Rence:

A water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems, harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The pith (or center) may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake. It is also distilled into beer.
"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threated on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flaggons, many times replenished, of rence beer."
"Raiders of Gor" page 44

Sa-Tarna:

Yellow grain; in the Tahari the grain is a golden brown color, the shell hardened to survive the desert winds. It is a staple of Gor, used to make bread as well as brewing paga. "Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life Daughter."
"Tarnsman of Gor" page 43

"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..."
"Tarnsman of Gor" page 37

Sa-Tarna Bread:

Flat, round, six-sectioned yellow bread made from Sa-Tarna grains. "I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot."
"Outlaw of Gor" page 76

Sa-Tassna:

This term refers to all meat; can also refer to food in general.

Suls:

Starchy, golden brown, vine borne vegetable; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato. "...the food, bosksteak and yellow bread, peas and Torain olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese."
"Assassin of Gor" page 168
"The sul is a larg, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable. It is very common on this world. There are 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."
"Dancer of Gor" page 80

Sullage:

A soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy. Be creative with this soup.
Mentioned in "Priest-Kings of Gor" page 45

Ta grapes:

These grapes hail from the isle of Cos and resemble grapes of Earth. They are used in making Ta wine, but are also a favored fruit to eat. It is possible, that these are the raisins in vulo stew, as mentioned in "Tribesmen of Gor" page 45

Tospit:

A bitter, juicy citrus fruit, named for the large number of seeds it holds. Small and peach-like, yellow in color and often dried and candied, as well as dripped in honey.
"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."
"Nomands of Gor" page 149

Turnips:

Mentioned in "Outlaw of Gor"page 29

Tur-pah:

An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; cultivated in host orchards of the Tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage.
"The principal ingredients of Sullage are .....curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees...."
"Priest-Kings of Gor" page 45