Gorean Foods
 

There are some foods that are native to Gor, but the basic fare of the Gorean diet tends to be simple. Goreans are meat and potato people although there is alot of fruits available to them as well as vegetables.

Breads Fruits   Meats Sweets   Vegetables Prepared Dishes   Miscellaneous
Steps to a food serve      servery and utensil descriptions
 
 

Breads

BLACK BREAD
baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, 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, page 13 SA-TARNA BREAD
baked in round flat loaves, they may be divided into 4-8 pieces depending on the size of the loaf, yellow in color "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

There were great quantities of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread, in its rounded, six-part loaves
Raiders of Gor Page 114

Then, while the other fellow took his place on the wagon box and started the ponderous draft beast into motion, he gave me two generous pieces of bread, two full wedges of Sa-Tarna bread, a fourth of a loaf. Such bread is usually 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 Page 216
 

Fruits

APRICOTS

"I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices."
Tribesman of Gor page 45 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 CHOKECHERRIES 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 pg. 46 DATES
These come from the City of Tor. "The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks.  Some of the date palm trees grow to more then a hundred feet high.  It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit.  Then will then yield for more then 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, page 37 KALANA FRUIT
Fruit that makes a very potent dry wine or sweet red wine, grows on a tree with very strong yellow wood. “Lastly, as the culmination of Ar’s Planting Feast, and of the greatest  importance to the plan of
the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar’s family goes to the roof at night, under the three
full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red,
winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree.  The member of the Ubar’s family then
prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at
which point the Guars of the Home Stone resume their vigil.”
Tarnsman of Gor, page 68 LARMA
there are two types of larma, one is a single seeded fruit, rather like an apple (sometimes referred to as pit fruit) and the other a segmented juicy larma.  It is served sliced, either fresh or fried, and served with browned honey sauce. The act of offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her Master (when he not specifically requested one) is often regarded as a silent plea by a slave when they wish to be "used" by that Master or Mistress sexually. "I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded, applelike 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  Page 267

"Another bit of larma, Master?" asked the slave, kneeling behind me and to my left. I turned and, from where I sat cross-legged behind the low table, removed a small, crisp disk of fried larma, with a browned-honey sauce, from the silver tray."
Guardsman of Gor, page 231

"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. 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."
Renegades of Gor. p 437

He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp. He seemed to make a great deal of noise. Although one or two of the girls stirred uneasily, none, to my relief, awakened. Harold was now fishing about, still chewing on the fruit
     Nomads of Gor Page 220

"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

MELONS
Are quoted in the Tribesman book of gor, as being in existence in many varieties. "Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward
me."
Tribesmen of Gor,  page 45 NUTS "vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 OLIVES

torian olives
are commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives) "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 red olives
These come from the groves of Tyros. "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

PEACHES
Slightly smaller than the earth variety but just as sweet. Can be dried for long journeys and made
into pies or tarts. "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 PLUMS "I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums."
page 45, Tribesman RAISINS "vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 RAM-BERRIES
small, succulent purple berries. They are tiny, bittersweet, but edible. Often they are dried and made into pies. "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, page 305 TA GRAPES
Fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos. Deep purple grapes grown from the terraces of Tor. Make excellent white wine, called ta-wine. "and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wines, thick and sweet, Ta wine, from the famed
Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos…"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 213

"The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island
of Cos..."
Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45

TOSPIT
A bitter, juicy citrus fruit. Used to make wagers on the number of seeds (odd or even, or the
number of odd seeds, since most tospits have and odd number of seeds). The tospit is yellow in
color. Small, peach-like fruit that is about the size of a plum. They are bitter, but edible. Often they
are dried and candied. It is also used in both throwing games of skill with the knife. Due to its high
vitamin C content it is used in the prevention of nutritional deficiencies at sea. Sometimes called
the seaman's larma.  A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit. The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind. I smiled. Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds, on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier. Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds. Most tospits do. I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks. I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes.
Tribesman of Gor page 45

"She had been carrying tospits and vegetables to the deck locker, to fill it."
Marauders of Gor, page 289

"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, page 149

"The common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds. On the other hand, the rare,
long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds."
Nomads of Gor, page 149

Meats

BOSK
This animal closely resembles a buffalo or Yak of Earth, used for many things on Gor. Can be served roasted and sliced, or as steaks. The milk of the bosk is very drinkable and can be used to make cheese and churned for butter.

Though similar in build to the Yak of earth the Bosk bears the heavier form of the buffalo of earth and like him, provides, food, leather and many of the needs of the people of Gor. The meat may be roasted or broiled, dried, stewed or served in a myriad of ways.
Nomads of Gor. p 4

"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 dome like wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skin cover their bodies"
Nomads of Gor, pages 4-5

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 EGGS
Cooked and used like chicken eggs on Earth "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

arctic gant
migratory bird that nests on cliffs in the Hrimgar Mountains, the southern border of the polar north.   When frozen, their eggs are eaten like apples 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 mountains 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 Page 196 vulo
a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild. The bird is used for meat and eggs. "Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan…"
Slave Girl of Gor,  page 73

FISH
many different varieties of fish are consumed. ex parsit - a silvery fish having brown stripes and wingfish - tiny blue saltwater fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia. "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

COSIAN WINGFISH
Called due to its ability to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. It's livers are considered a delicacy. "'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 PARSIT FISH
Slender silver fish with brown stripes, put into the slave gruel (bond-maid) gruel in Torvoldsland.
Also salted and exported to the south. "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

"The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width.  Another of the bond-maids was then freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish."
Marauders of Gor, pages 63-64

SHARK The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen.  Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals.  Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
Beasts of Gor Page 36 WHITE-BELLIED GRUNT
a large game fish Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net 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 WINGFISH
These are tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on their dorsal fin; found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia "'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

INSECTS "On the tenth day, instead of the pan of bread, with the water, Ute thrust a different pan under the
door. I screamed. Tiny things, with tiny sounds, moved, crawling over and about one another in it.
I screamed again, and thrust it back out. It had been filled with the fat, loathsome green insects
which, in the Ka-la-na thicket, Ute had told we were edible. Indeed, she had eaten them. 'they are
nourishing,' she had said."
Captive of Gor, page 315 KAILIAUK
gigantic, dangerous beast that stands 20-25 hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as 4,000 lbs, they migrate across the Barrens in massive herds, hunted by Red Savages and those who trade in their hides.  They have a trident horn. "The kailiauk in question, incidently, is the kailiauk of the Barrens. It is a gigantic, dangerous beast, often standing from twenty to twenty five hands at the shoulder and weighing as much as four thousand pounds. it is almost never hunted on foot except in deep snow, in which it is almost helpless. From kaiila back, riding beside the stampeded animal, however, the skilled hunter can kill one with a single arrow. He rides close to the animal, not a yard from its side, just outside the hooking range of the trident, to supplement the striking power of his small bow. At this range the arrow can sink in to the feathers. Ideally it strikes into the intestinal cavity behind the last rib, producing large scale internal hemorrhaging, or closely behind the left shoulder blade, thence piercing the eight valved heart."
Savages of Gor, page 40 OYSTERS "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, page 301

She threw me one of the oysters.
Captive of Gor Page 301

POULTRY/FOWL

MARSH GANT
Aquatic fowl; small, web footed, horned. Hunted by Marsh girls and/or Rencers for food "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

"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, page 44

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. This meat is roasted and can be stuffed with peppers. A large flightless carnivorous bird, about the size of an ostrich, having an 18'-long hooked beak. It is often eaten by the Nomads of Gor.
Nomads of Gor. p 2

"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

VULO
A tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon or chicken, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs. Delicious when roasted over burning embers. The very small eggs are cooked for the breakfast meal by frying them in a large, flat pan. Takes several birds or many eggs to make a meal. "vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48

"It is the spiced brain of the Turian vulo," Saphrar was explaining.
I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia. I took a large swallow of fierce Paga, washing it down as rapidly as possible."
Nomads of Gor, page 8

"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

SA-TASSNA
Meat food in general. Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother "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 SAUSAGE "There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks, numerous cannisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments.
Assassin of Gor, pages 271 SEA SLEEN
long sleek mammal with flippers and six legs and double fanged jaws can weigh as much as 1000 pounds and as much as 20 feet in length hunted by the Red Hunters for food and pelt. Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey.. The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.  There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migration.  Not all members of a species of sleen migrate.  Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter to an Ahn or so to breathe.  This is done at breaks in the ice or at gnawed breathing holes.
Beasts  of Gor Page 38

And behind then, in a rich swirling cloak of the fur of the white spotted sea sleen, sword in hand, looking wildly about, was another man, one I did not know.
Beasts  of Gor Page 300

TABUK
In the south, the tabuk is a yellow, one-horned antelope-like animal, used for meat, hides, and the
like. The northern tabuk is much larger, tawny colored, also used for meat and hides.  The basic
differences are explained below. Known for their sweet meat and speed, the Tabuk is generally
served roasted or grilled, and served as steaks. "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

"my mouth watered for a tabuk steak…"
Outlaw of Gor, page 76

TARSK
The 6 tusked wild boar; it’s meat is pork-like. Porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly
mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. This meat is roasted. One way to prepare it
is stuffed with suls and peppers from the City of Tor. "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

"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, 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

"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my
mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable
six tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests."
Outlaw of gor, page 76

The tarn was ready. It was within the cot, tearing at a piece of meat, a haunch of tarsk, hung from a rope. The rope was some two inches thick. The suspension of the meat reminded me of the way peasant women sometimes cook roasts, tying them on a cord and dangling them, before a fire, then spinning the meat from time to time. In this way, given the twisting and untwisting of the cord, the meat will cook rather evenly, for the most part untended, and without spit turning.
renegades of gor page 120

VERR
A goat-like animal. The meat can be roasted or stewed. It's milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. To prepare Verr, it is steamed, by being placed in the ground, wrapped in leaves and slow cooked for 24 hours so as to take away its bitterness and stringy consistency. "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."
page 37, Tribesman" WHALE
baleen, Hunjer, and Karl Whales were part of the seasonal hunting for the Red Hunters in the north. The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen.  Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals.  Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
Beasts of Gor Page 36

Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white spotted blunt fin.  That two whales had been taken in one season was rare hunting, indeed.  Sometimes two or three years pass without a whale being taken.
Beasts of Gor Page 265

WHITE GRUNT EGGS
similar to earth caviar " The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. 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, pages 275-276
 

Sweets

CAKE

fried maize cake "Master?" asked Tuka, kneeling, holding the tray. We took the fried maize cakes from the tray. Then the tray was empty, save for one object, a segment of dried root, about two to three inches long and a half inch wide.
Blood Brothers of Gor Page 369 honey cake “from a vendor, the Forkbeard bought his girls honey cake; with their fingers they ate it eagerly, crumbs at the side of their mouths.”
Marauders of Gor, page 144 pemmican cake "She seems hungry," I said. I had noted that she was eyeing the cake of pemmican in his hand.
"Forgive me, Strawberry!" he said. "I am so thoughtless"
He quickly broke the cake of pemmican in two.
I put my hand on his arm. "You are the male," I said. "It is yours, not hers."
"I will share it with her of course." he siad.
"She has not yet begged." I said.
He looked at me, startled. Then he, in confusion, looked again upon the girl.
"I beg for something to eat," she said, smiling.
He quickly gave her half of the tiny cake of pemmican and she, on her knees, naked, swiftly, ravenously, ate it.
Blood Brothers of Gor pg. 294

We then went and sat down where Mira, on leaves, had set forth our food. We chewed the cold pemmican. We would not make a fire in this place. From time to time, chewing, we cast a glance at Mira. She knelt to one side, her head down. She was very beautiful. It was difficult not to anticipate the pleasures we would later receive from her. I threw her a piece of pemmican.
Blood Brothers of Gor Page 329

rence cake "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, page 44

CANDY

tasta (stick candy) "He yelled something raucous and rubald. 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 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 p. 81 MINT STICKS
Long sticks of mint flavored candy. "She withdrew, head down.  She picked up the small tray from the stand near the table.  On it was a small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from the distant Turia, the Ar of the South, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it.  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-enameled 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, page 10

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

"I lived in Ar for a year," she said. "Not far from my apartments there was a pastry shop. Marvelous smells used to come from the shop. In the eveneing, when the shop was closing slave girls, in their brief tunics and collars, would come and kneel down, near the hinged opening to the open air counter. The baker, who was a kind hearted man, would sometimes come out and, from a flat sheet, throw them unsold pastries.
Blood Brothers of Gor  pg. 333

Vegetables

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 CARROTS "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 CORN 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  pg. 233 KATCH
A foliated leaf vegetable. Often grown by the people of the Tahari Desert. Similar to lettuce. "a foliated leaf vegetable, 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 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 KORT
a rind vegetable of the Tahari, may be served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. A large brownish skinned, thick skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six to eight inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous and heavily seeded, served with melted cheese over the top. (similar to honeydew) "and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year."
     Tribesman of Gor page 37 MUL FUNGUS
Eaten by the Muls, slaves within the Nest of the Priest Kings, it's bland and tasteless, pale, vegetablelike wetmatter that will only be found there in Gor It is not hard to get used to Mul-Fungus, for it has almost no taste, being an extremely bland, pale, whitish, fibrous vegetablelike matter. I know of no one who is moved much in one direction or the other by its taste. Even the Muls, many of whom have been bread in the Nest, do not particularly like it, nor despise it. It is eaten with much the same lack of attention that we normally breathe air. Muls feed four times a day. In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is chopped into rough two-inch cubes; for the third meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement; at the final meal Mul-Fungus is pressed into a large, flat cake and sprinkled with a few grains of salt. Misk told me, and I believe him, that Muls had occasionally slain one another for a handful of salt. The Mul-Fungus , as far as I can tell, is not much different from the fungus, raised under ideal conditions from specially selected spores, which graces the feed troughs of the Priest-Kings themselves, a tiny sample of which was once given me by Misk. It was perhaps a bit less course than Mul-Fungus, Misk was much annoyed that I could not detect the difference. I was much annoyed when I found out later that the major difference between high-quality fungus and the lower-grade fungus was simply the smell. I was in the Nest, incidentally, for more than five weeks before I could even vaguely detect the odor difference which seemed so significant to Misk. And then it did not strike me as being better or worse than that of the low-grade Mul-Fungus.
Priest Kings of Gor, page 109 MUSHROOMS 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  pg. 83 ONION "vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 47

"I have peas, and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man
Outlaw of Gor Page 29

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

"I have peas, and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man
Outlaw of Gor Page 29

PEPPERS 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 pg. 47 PUMPKIN 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  pg. 233 RADISHES "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 SQUASH 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  pg. 233 SUL
A tuberous root, vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried. Starchy, with a bland flavor, golden brown, principal ingredient in sullage, often served sliced and fried. One way of serving is to break it open and fill it with melted bosk cheese, topped with soured bosk cream. Can be distilled into the drink called paga. "The sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable. It is very common on this world.
There are a 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

"With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Guardsman of Gor, page 234

"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

TURNIP "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

"I have peas, and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man
Outlaw of Gor Page 29

TUR-PAH
An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves, grows on the tur tree, a main ingredient in sullage. Considered a vegetable. "First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three
standard ingredients, and, as 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  curled, red, ovate leaves of the
Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub…"
Priest Kings of Gor, page 45

"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

Prepared Dishes

CUSTARD

"He sat, crossed-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards."
Beasts of Gor  Page 20 SLAVE PORRIDGE (GRUEL)
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. Durbar left. In a few moments he returned with a small wooden bowl filled with dried, precooked meal. He poured some water into this.
I was then handed the bowl.
"Mix it with your fingers," said the first man.
I, mixing the water with the precooked meal, formed a sort of cold porridge or gruel. I then, with my fingers, and putting the bowl even to my lips, fell eagerly upon that thick, bland moist substance.
Kajira of Gor. P 257

"We had been called from our cells well before dawn. Each of us had been forced to eat a  large
bowl of heavy slave gruel. We wouldn’t be fed again until that night."
Captive of Gor, page 208

"The bond-maids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mud-like Sa-Tarna meal; with
raw fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 65

SULLAGE
a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy. "First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three
standard ingredients, and, as 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  curled, red, ovate leaves of the
Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub…"
Priest Kings of Gor, page 45

Miscellaneous

DAIRY PRODUCTS

BUTTER
Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr. " 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

"We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of butter."
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

CHEESE
Pressed from the milk of the Bosk

"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

"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

MILK

bosk milk The Wagon People grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing as we know it.  They are herders and it is said, killers.  They eat nothing that has touched the dirt.  They live on the meat and milk of the bosk.
Nomads of Gor Page 4

Not only does the flesh of the bosk and milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell;
Nomads of Gor Page 5

kaiila milk kaiila milk, which is used, like verr milk, by the peoples of the Tahari, is reddish and has a strong, salty taste; it contains much ferrous sulfate;
Tribesmen of Gor Page 71 verr milk kaiila milk, which is used, like verr milk, by the peoples of the Tahari, is reddish and has a strong, salty taste; it contains much ferrous sulfate;
Tribesmen of Gor Page 71

POWDERED BOSK MILK "Too, I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk. We had finished the creams last night and, in any event, it was unlikely they would have lasted the night. If I had wanted creams I would have had to have gone to the market."
Guardsman of Gor   page 295

FLAVORED ICES 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 pg. 141 FLOUR (Grains)
There are flour like substances from the dark wheat they grind to make the blackbread and there is
sa-tarna meal (rather the consistency of cornmeal) that we use for the nice yellow sa-tarna loaves we
make and it can be crushed a bit more and create a nice flour consistency, also rence (like rice and
white) can be ground down into a flour like substance that is very good for pancakes

Sa-tarna
A grain, specifically wheat 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 4-8 sections. "At the oasis will be grown a hybrid of 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, 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 yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year. Larma and tospits are also grown at the oases, in small orchards. Some rep is grown, for cloth, but most cloth comes to the oasis from caravans."
page 37, Tribesmen

"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

RENCE
A water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake. Like rice. 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 the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste."
Raiders of Gor, page 28

"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

"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, page 44

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

ICE "My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage
     on Gor. Generally, food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course,
     does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under sawdust.
     One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of
     course, cannot afford the luxury of ice in the summer."
Guardsman of Gor, page 295 SPICES "I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that the people of the Tharai regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells. Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tharai districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head."
page 46, Tribesman

cinnamon "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 pg. 98 cloves "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 pg. 98 garlic "I have peas, and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man
Outlaw of Gor Page 29 nutmeg "..a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 pepper 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  pg. 46

SALT

red salt
though there are mines in the south that produce red salt, red from ferrous oxide in its composition,  it is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after it's port of embarkation at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen. "salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or the burning of seaweed. It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids. the red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland"
Marauders of Gor, pages 186-187

The red salt of Kasra, so called from its port of enbarcation, was famed on Gor.  It was brought from secret pits and mines, actually, deep in the interior, bound in heavy cylinders on the back of pack kaiila.  Each cylinder, roped to others, eieghed in the neighborhood of ten stones, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight".
Tribesman of Gor Page 20

Most salt at Kilma 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.
Tribesman of Gor Page 238

"...Near him in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt...."
Nomads of Gor, page 253

white 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  Page 238 yellow salt "salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or the burning of seaweed. It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids. the red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland"
Marauders of Gor, pages 186-187

"...Near him in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt...."
Nomads of Gor, page 253

SUGAR
there is a reference to 4 gorean sugars but unable to find so far only two, or could mean four spoonfuls of sugar Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of
    tospit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars.
Rogue of Gor  pg 132

white 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."
page 89, Tribesman of Gor yellow sugar
It is believed that the yellow sugar are made from the juices of crushed cane stalks. "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."
page 89, Tribesman of Gor

Basic steps for a food serve that one can use for most all the foods:
    1. get the request and thank the Free Person for allowing you to serve.
     2. rise (if kneeled before the Free Person take 3 steps back before turning) and go to the servery.
     3. acquire a platter or bowl or both depending on Their hunger and request, and polish them, check the rim for scratches or nicks.
     4. acquire a tray and polish it.
     5. gather the food itself, wherever it is located at, for example: if They wiss tabuk steaks, you may have plucked a big juicy steak already from the cool room and it may be sizzling on the grill upon the fire as you are polishing the trays, or if They requested soup, then you can ladle it into the bowl, perhaps adding sa-tarna bread with butter to the tray to go along with it, or if perhaps fruit and cheese as requested, you and the platter may be in the cool room, plucking forth different fruits and arranging them and the slices of cheese upon your platter, there are so many different types of foods that could be requested, and some you might have to cook or maybe they can be eaten fresh, be flexible and creative
     6. bring it back to the Master/Mistress
     7. kneel and set the platter down, tasting very small slivers of each type of food you bring to check for poison,  (*note* the checking for poison may be skipped here as no quotes can be found to verify this step and the food offered up, but then after the tray has been taken the girl would open her mouth, offering to test any foods that the Master wished to show her willingness to take any risks with her life to possibly save His)
     8. pause for 6 beats of your heart to show your submission and perhaps offer good tidings or a silent prayer to the Priest Kings if you wish.
     9. kiss the rim of the platter if you wish at this point if offering the platter up to them
     10. offer to the Free Person and say what you have brought them and that you hope the serve has been pleasing to them.