Foods of Gor
Garlic: Presumably the same as garlic on earth.
Katch: A foliated leaf vegetable
Kes: the salty blue secondary root of the kes shrub can be eaten and is a primary ingredient in sullage, a form of Gorean soup.
Kort: A large brownish-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable with a thick skin, usually six inches in width. It has a yellowish interior that is fibrous and heavily seeded.
Mushrooms: No description given other than it was prepared as a stuffed mushroom.
Peas: Presumably the same as the earth vegetable.
Peppers: Hot peppers found in the Tahari, used in cooking.
Rence Cakes: A type of cake made from fried rence paste, on flat stones, often sprinkled with rence seeds.
Tur-Pah: A tree parasite whose red, ovate, leaves are edible
Meat Fish And Fowl
Bosk: A common meat on Gor, being cooked in various ways. The Wagon Peoples exist almost solely upon it.
Tabuk: Golden Gorean one-horned antelope.
Tarsk: Similar to the boar, of earth, its meat is eaten in various ways, normally roasted or baked, sometimes whole.
Tumit: A large, flightless, carnivorous bird hunted with bolas by the Wagon Peoples. The sport lies in who gets to eat that night, the hunter or the bird.
Verr: A mountain goat raised for wool, meat and milk.
Vulo: A domesticated pigeon, raised both for its meat and for the eggs it lays.
Oysters: Presumably much the same as oysters from earth, a delicacy. Found in the delta of the Vosk.
Parsit Fish: A light, flaky, delicate fish that is sometimes mixed, raw, into bondmaid gruel.
Sorp: A type of shellfish
Wingfish: A small blue four-spined fish, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand, it has three or four poisonous spines on its dorsal fin. It is regarded as a delicacy, its liver the delicacy of delicacies.
Breads and Cakes
Biscuits: Flat pressed biscuits baked from Sa-Tarna flour
Black Bread: A type of bread, not other otherwise described.
Pemmican: a soft cake
Sa-Tarna Bread: Bread baked from Sa-Tarna grain. It is yellowish in color and usually split into eight divisions. It is baked as a round flat loaf.
Sa-Tarna Grain: A yellowish grain that forms a staple of the Gorean diet.
Salts Sugars and Spices
Chocolate: The beans originally taken from Earth, chocolate is now grown and used on Gor as well.
Salt, Red: Known as the "Red Salt of Kasra" it contains ferrous oxide which gives it its color.
Salt, White: Untainted Sea Salt. The main type of salt found at the salt mine of Klima.
Salt, Yellow: A table salt mentioned and spoken of as "of the south" but not otherwise described.
Sugar: There are various colors of sugars, though their flavors are never spoken of. There is specifically mentioned four Gorean sugars though only two, white and yellow, are ever mentioned by color.
Tasta: Small, round, succulent candy coated in syrup or fudge and then mounted upon a stick for easy handling and eating. Literal translation is "stick candy."
Fruit of Gor
Apricot: Not described but presumably similar if not identical to the same fruit found on Earth. It can be found sold in the markets of the Tahari.
Dates : The principal export of the Tahari. sold either by the basket or in pressed-date bricks.
Ka-la-na Fruit: The red fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. Presumably sweet, it is used to make a type of wine as well as being edible on its own.
Larma: A brittle, hard-shelled fruit, the fleshy endocarp being very sweet and juicy. Women are sometimes referred to as larma as under their frigid exteriors, it is said, they are sweet and juicy.
Melon: A yellowish red-striped fruit
Nuts: Undescribed but presumably similar to an earth nut of some kind, possibly peanuts or cashews. It is an import of the Tahari.
Pit Fruit: Also known as the hard larma, this is a firm, single-seeded, applelike fruit.
plums: No description given, presumed similar to earth plums.
Ram-berries: Small reddish berries with edible seeds, much like tiny plums excepting the many seeds within.
Red olives: Grown in Tyros, presumably the same as earth olives.
Ta-Grapes: Purple grapes grown on the terraces of Cos.
Tospit: Bitter but edible peachlike fruit about the size of a plum. It is yellowish-white in color.
Dairy items
Arctic Gant Eggs: eggs
Bosk Cheese: Quite simply, cheese made from the milk of the bosk. Has a lighter taste than verr cheese.
Verr Cheese: See verr
Vulo Eggs: See Vulo
White Grunt Eggs: Perhaps comparable to caviar, as they are served with the first course during the dinner along with fruit and pastries.
Soups/Porridge
BondMaid Gruel: a thick greul that of dampened Sa-Tarna meal and raw fish.
Slave Porridge: Extremely nourishing though very bland porridge made for consumption by slaves.
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
