Meats, Fish,Cheese ect.
Butter:
Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.
Slaves will be expected to churn butter; stored in the chilling room.
"Westopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating had finished making a keg of butter."
"Marauders of Gor" page 101
Cheese:
Pressed from the milk of the Bosk, these cheeses are sharp in taste and travel well, resisting mold in their hard rinds.
Cheeses are stored in the chilling room.
"...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." "Assassin 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
Eggs:
Eggs of the vulo. Slaves will collect eggs from the vulo pens. Eggs are cooked the same as Earth chicken eggs.
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs n a large, flat pan."
"Slave Girl of Gor" page 72
Fish:
There are many different varieties of fish are consumed such as:
Caviar:
"In the hall was a open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guest, on cushions and mats, reclined. There were four men and two women at these tables, othe then the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past serveral days, the Lady Metpomene. The tables were covered with clothes of glistening white and a service of gold. Before each gues there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and a tiny golden cup, with a golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. The first wine, a light white wine, was beng deferentially served by Pamela and Bonnie."
"Fighting Slave of Gor" pages 275-276
Cosian wingfish;
a tiny blue saltwater fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in the city of Turia.
"Now this, Saphrarthe merchant was telling me, is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined 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.....The blue four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The samll blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacies of delicacies."
"Nomads of Gor" page 23
Eel:
"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
Oysters:
"Other girls had prepared the repast, which for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk."
"Captive of Gor" page 301
Parsit:
This is a thin silvery fish found in the cold waters of the North. Torvaldslanders dry and salt the fish, one of the main exports; the also add it to the gruel of the bond-maids.
"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
White-bellied Grunt:
A fish of the cold northern waters. "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 fee on the parsit fish."
"Marauders of Gor" page 59
Sa-Tassna: This term refers to all meat; can also refer to food in general.
Meats
Bosk:
Large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth buffalo, or ox; cook and serve as Earth beef is cooked and served."...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."
"Assassin of Gor" page 168
Gant:
An aquatic fowl that is the staple of the Rencers of the Vosk Delta.
"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-billled and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of Rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks."
"Raiders of Gor"page 4
"Before the feasts I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing the marsh gant...."
"Raiders of Gor" page 44
Tabuk:
The one-horned yellow antelope of Gor. The Northern tabuk clearly a much larger and more dangerous variety."Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of and antelope, one of the one horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-La-Na thickets of Gor."
"Tarnsmen of Gor" page 145
"They are nothern tabuk, 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 distinguished by a single horn of the tubuk. On these animals, however, that object, in a swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one half inches in diameter, and better then a yard in length. A charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous animal."
"Beasts of Gor" page 152
Tarsk:
A porcine animal, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. "Before the feasts I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits of the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated about the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans."
"Raiders of Gor" page 44
"...if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests."
"Assasins of Gor" page 87
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 you or the bird gets to eat that night.
"I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand."
"Nomads of Gor" page 331
Verr:
The mountain goat of Thentis. The meat can be eaten. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter.
"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
Vulo:
A tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs."She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat."
"Normads 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."
"Normads of Gor" page 83
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