Servery Vessels, Utensils,
etc.
Drinking
Vessels Eating Utensils Bottles,
botas, etc.
Serving
Utensils Servery & Other Descriptions
Drinking
Vessels
Bowl
Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy
clay bowls. It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably,
it was coffee."
Assassin of Gor Page 106
Cup
they vary from a larger cup for paga to the
tiny cups for tea
"Another girl ran to him, bearing a cup
of paga."
Raiders of Gor, page 102
'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the tiny
copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under
it. A small, heavy curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would
hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses,
usually three at a time, carefully measured."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 139
She rose swiftly to her feet. She knelt, head
down, before me. She poured, carefully, the hot, black beverage into the
tiny red cup.
Tribesman of Gor Page 105
Flask
"I went to his locker near the mat and
got out his Ka-la-na flask; taking a long draught myself and then shoving
it into his hands. He drained the flask in one drink and wiped his
hand across his beard, stained with the red juice of the fermented drink."
Tarnsman of Gor Page 168
Glasses
"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
Goblet
goblets vary immensely, from jewel studded
ones to plain metal goblets
"I thrust out the silver paga goblet,
studded with rubies, and Telima, standing beside my throne like chair,
filled it."
Raiders of Gor, page 223
"Many civilians, I believe, do not know why
certain warriors, by habit, request their paga in metal goblets
when dining in public houses."
Renegades of Gor, page 77
She reached to the wine, a sweet Ka-la-na of Ar, and filled the goblet
to the third ring. Then, as I sat back against the couch, she knelt before
me. She, head down, pressed the heavy metal goblet deep into her lower
abdomen, and then she lifted it to her lips and, holding it with both hands,
kissed it lingeringly and lovingly. the, kneeling back on her heels she
put down her head and, humbly, her arms extended, her head down between
them, proffered me the goblet.
Guardsman of Gor Page 301
Gourd Flagon
"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
Horn
I held the large drinking horn of the
north.
"There is no way for this to stand upright,"
I said to him, puzzled.
He threw back his head again, and roared once
more with laughter.
"If you cannot drain it," he said, "give it
to another"
I threw back my head and drained the horn.
"Splendid!" cried the ForkBeard.
I handed the horn to Thyri, who, in her collar,
naked, between two benches, knelt at my feet.
"Yes Jarl," she said, and ran to fill it,
from the great vat. How marvelously beautiful is a naked, collared woman.
Marauders of Gor Page 108
Hydria
described as a high handled water vessel,
something similar is used by slave girls to dip paga from simmering kettles.
"The girls filled their vessels, which,
like the hydria, or water vessel, are high-handled, for dipping, in a
large kettle hung simmering over a fire near
the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk
quicker, it is thought... Some Cosians tend
to be fond of hot paga."
Vagabonds of Gor, page 16
Kantharos
"She knelt near the table... and put the
paga, in a small kantharos... before me."
Renegades of Gor, page 71
Pot
"I had hardly settled myself behind the
table when the proprietor had placed a large, fat pot of steaming Kal-da
before me. It almost burned my hands to lift the pot. I took a long, burning
swig of the brew and though, on another occasion, I might have thought
it foul, tonight it sang through my body like the bubbling fire it was,
a sizzling, brutal irritant that tasted so bad and yet charmed me so much
I had to laugh."
Outlaw of Gor, page 78
Tankard
The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden
keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure
of five gallons - - - . The tankard then, with two great bronze handles,
was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men threw back
their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale.
It was victory ale
From Marauders of Gor Page 99
Wine Crater
Aphris got up and fetched not a skin,
but a bottle, of wine, Ka-la-na wine, from the Ka-la-na orchards of great
Ar itself. She also brought a black, red-trimmed wine crater from the isle
of Cos.
“May I serve you?” she asked.
Kamchak’s eyes glinted. “Yes,” he said.
She poured wine into the crater and replaced
the bottle. Kamchak had watched her hands very carefully. She had had to
break the seal on the bottle to open it. The crater had been upside down
when she had picked it up. If she had poisoned the wine she had certainly
done so deftly. Then she knelt before him in the position of the Pleasure
Slave and, head down, arms extended, offered him the crater. He took it
and sniffed it and then took a wary sip.
Nomads of Gor Pages 150-151
Eating
Utensils
Bowl
"The horn spoon snapped in his hands,
and he angrily threw the pieces into his bowl."
Assassin of Gor, page 120
"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
Eating Prong
"I shot the spiced vulo brain
into my mouth on the end of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as
far as I knew, unique to Turia."
Nomads of Gor, page 84
"With a Turian eating prong, used in the house
of Samos, I speared a slice of meat, and then threaded it on the single
tine."
Beasts of Gor Page 21
Horn Spoon
"The horn spoon snapped in his hands,
and he angrily threw the pieces into his bowl."
Assassin of Gor, page 120
Pan
"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
Plate
"With a serving prong she placed narrow
strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Guardsman of Gor, page 234
"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
Rod, Metal
"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
Spoon
" 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
At one edge of the field a crude wooden platform
had been erected, some seven or eight feet high, its surface reached by
a ladder. Above the platform, on poles, a cloth canopy had been stretched.
It was being moved by the wind. Beneath the canopy, one with a string of
pans and cups tied together, the other with a wooden spoon and a flat,
metal pan, were two Waniynapi women. One was shouting and gesticulating,
shaking the pans and cups; the other was shouting and pounding on the flat,
metal pan with the wooden spoon.
Blood Brothers of Gor page 276-7
Trough (where slaves ate
porridge)
"I shared breakfast with Elizabeth who
informed me that it was better than the porridge below
in the trough in the feeding room for
female staff slaves,..."
Assassin of Gor, pages 106-107
Tureen
"By another platform a slaver's man was
moving along the platform. He carried a large, handled copper tureen filled
with a watery soup. The slaver's beauties, chained together by the neck,
knelt at the edge of the platform Each dipped their cupped hands twice
into the tureen, and lifted them, drinking and feeding, to their mouth.
They then licked and sucked their fingers and wiped their hands on their
bodies."
Beasts of Gor Page 54
Bottles,
botas, etc.
Bags (perhaps a bota)
"He leaned over and tossed me a skin bag of
Paga, from which I took a long swig, then hurled it
contemptuously back into his arms. In
a moment he had taken flight again, ... the bag of Paga flying behind
him, dangling from its long straps."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 78
Skin Bag
"The slender blond girl, who had been
giving men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small
bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond-maids. She used a bronze
ladle...The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls,
even to licking them, that no grain be left..."
Marauders of Gor, pages 64-65
Verrskin Bag
"He came to me, bent over, tattered, swarthy,
grinning up at me, the verrskin bag over his shoulder, the brass cups,
a dozen of them, attached to shoulder straps and his belt, rattling and
clinking. Without removing the bag from his shoulder he filled the
cup, the water flowed into the cup between a tiny vent-and-spigot device,
which wastes little water, by reducing spillage, which was tied in and
waxed into a hole in the front left foreleg of the verrskin. The
skins are carefully stripped and any rents are sewed up the seams coated
with wax. When the whole skin is thoroughly cleaned of filth and
hair, straps are fastened to it, so that i might be conveniently carried
on the shoulders, or over the back..."
Tribesmen of Gor Page 36
Botas
I went to the wagon to fetch a large bota
of paga, which had been filled from one of the large jugs.
Lana and Ute, too, went to the wagon, to fetch
other botas, so commanded by other guards.
The grass felt good to my bare feet.
It seemed I could feel each blade. I felt the rough fabric of the
camisk on my body as I moved, the pull of the strap on my shoulder, the
heavy, swaying touch of the bota as, in the rhythm of my walk, it touched
my side.
Captive of Gor Page 112
Bottles
some bottles may be carried in slings designed
for pouring
"The proprietor, sweating, aproned, was
tipping yet another great bottle of paga in its sling, filling cups,
that they might be borne to the drinkers."
Raiders of Gor, page 105
"I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we
had obtained from the slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor
of the paga tavern, and took in return one
of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort you put in a pouring
sling..."
Raiders of Gor, page 111
Aphris got up and fetched not a skin, but a
bottle, of wine, Ka-la-na wine, from the Ka-la-na orchards of great Ar
itself. She also brought a black, red-trimmed wine crater from the isle
of Cos.
“May I serve you?” she asked.
Kamchak’s eyes glinted. “Yes,” he said.
She poured wine into the crater and replaced
the bottle.
Nomads of Gor Pages 150-151
Flask
"I went to his locker near the mat and
got out his Ka-la-na flask; taking a long draught myself and then shoving
it into his hands. He drained the flask in one drink and wiped his
hand across his beard, stained with the red juice of the fermented drink."
Tarnsman of Gor Page 168
Keg
The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden
keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure
of five gallons - - - . The tankard then, with two great bronze handles,
was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men threw back
their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale.
It was victory ale
From Marauders of Gor Page 99
Paga Vessel
"I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius,
who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. Again it had
been emptied. He dipped the vessel into a
great vat of paga and returned it to me."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 298
"Paga," called a man. I hurried to him, carrying
the large bronze vessel of paga, on its strap about my
shoulder. I knelt and filled his cup."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 293
"`Paga!' called the standing man. `Paga!' A
blonde girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel
collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze
vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the
goblet before the seated man. The fellow who
stood by the table, scarcely noticing the girl, placed a
tarsk-bit in her mouth, and she fled back
to the counter where, under the eye of a paga attendant, she spit
the coin into a copper bowl."
Rogue of Gor, page 78
Pitcher
I looked into a shop where pottery was
being turned. to one side of the wheels, along a wall, sitting among many
bowls and vessels, a boy, with his finger, was carefully applying
bluish pigment to a large, two-handled pitcher. when the pitcher was placed
in the kiln this pigment would be burned, hardened, into the glaze. The
kilns were in the back of the shop.
Tribesman of Gor page 49
Vat
"I hurried to the counter and handed Busebius,
who was beaming, the paga vessel and strap. Again it had
been emptied. He dipped the vessel into a
great vat of paga and returned it to me."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 298
"Another girl ran to him, bearing a cup of
paga."
Raiders of Gor, page 102
"Samos put down a cup of paga."
Raiders of Gor, page 306
Wicker Basket
a small bottle of Ka-la-na wine, in a
wicker basket...I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth,
and yet here, on this world, it costs only a copper tarn disk and was so
cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave. It
was the first Gorean fermented beverage which I had tasted. It is said
that Ka-la-na has an unusual effect on a female.
Captive of Gor Page 114
Serving
& Cooking Utensils
(and other slave utensils/tools)
Basket
I stepped aside to let a young girl pass,
who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant.
Beasts of Gor Page 196
Bowl
"The slender blond girl, who had been
giving men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small
bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond-maids. She used a bronze
ladle...The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls,
even to licking them, that no grain be left..."
Marauders of Gor, pages 64-65
Brazier
I lifted my finger. The girl in whose
charge was the silver vessel, filled with black wine, knelt beside a tiny
brazier, on which it sat, retaining its warmth.
Tribesman of Gor Page 105
Flat Sheet
"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 evening, 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
Heavy Curved Glass
'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the
tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned
under it. A small, heavy curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which
would hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in
tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 139
Kettle
'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the
tiny copper kettle on the small stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under
it. A small, heavy curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would
hold some two ounces of the tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses,
usually three at a time, carefully measured."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 139
"She built up the fire. I watched her. She
unfolded and adjusted a single-bar cooking rack, placing it over the fire.
From this she suspended a kettle of water. The single bar, which may be
loosened in its rings, and has a handle, may also function as a spit."
Renegades of Gor, page 150
Knives
"The ulo, or woman's knife, with its semicircular
blade, customarily fixed to a wooden handle,
is not well suited to carving. It is better
at cutting meat and slicing sinew."
Beasts of Gor, page 262
Ladle
"The slender blond girl, who had been
giving men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small
bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond-maids. She used a bronze
ladle...The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls,
even to licking them, that no grain be left..."
Marauders of Gor, pages 64-65
Leather Bucket
"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
Serving Prong
"With a serving prong she placed narrow
strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Guardsman of Gor, page 234
Spoons
"She carried a tray, on which were various
spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray upon the table. With a tiny
spoon, it's tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed
four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow; with two stirring spoons,
one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage
after each measure."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 89
Tray
they may be made of metal such as silver or
wooden depending on where in Gor they are found
"She carried a tray, on which were various
spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray upon the table. With a tiny
spoon, it's tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed
four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow; with two stirring spoons,
one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage
after each measure."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 89
"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
"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
Tureen
"By another platform a slaver's man was
moving along the platform. He carried a large, handled copper tureen filled
with a watery soup. The slaver's beauties, chained together by the neck,
knelt at the edge of the platform Each dipped their cupped hands twice
into the tureen, and lifted them, drinking and feeding, to their mouth.
They then licked and sucked their fingers and wiped their hands on their
bodies."
Beasts of Gor Page 54
Servery
& Other Descriptions
Cooking Meat
"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
Cooking Rack
"She built up the fire. I watched her.
She unfolded and adjusted a single-bar cooking rack, placing it over the
fire. From this she suspended a kettle of water. The single bar, which
may be loosened in its rings, and has a handle, may also function as a
spit."
Renegades of Gor, page 150
Cooking on the rence islands
"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
Refrigeration
"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
Servery Description
"There were several yards of sausages
hung on hooks, numerous canisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller
containers of spices and condiments. Two large wine jugs stood in one corner
of the room. There were many closed pantries lining the walls, and
a number of pumps and tubs on one side. Some boxes and baskets of hard
fruit were stored there. I could see the bread ovens in one wall, the long
fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits
and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but here and there
I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal, aside from this, the
light in the room came from one small tharlarion oil lamp hanging from
the ceiling..."
Assassin of Gor, pages 271-272
Sul-paga Still
"Sul paga is, when distilled, though the
sul itself is yellow, is as clear as water... the still, with its tanks
and pipes, lay within the village, that of Tabuk's Ford, in which Thurnus,
our host, was caste leader.
Excellent,' said my master, sipping the Sul
paga. He could have been commenting only on the potency of drink, for Sul
paga is almost tasteless. One does not guzzle Sul paga. Last night one
of the men had held my head back and forced me to swallow a mouthful. In
moments things had gone black, and I had fallen unconscious."
Slave Girl of Gor Page 134
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