The Outpost offers the following Gorean foods and drinks for your pleasure. If you are not familiar with Gorean cuisine, please ask the kajira that serves for what you favor on earth and tell her to find you the Gorean equivilent. If there is no kajira available you may ask a Free Woman for service.
Meats and Fish
Bosk: this animal closely resembles the cattle of Urth and is used for many things on Gor. It 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.
Cosian Wingfish: Called so for its ability to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. Its livers are considered a delicacy.
Marsh Shark: Transported from the marshes, marsh shark is served as filets or shark steaks.
Parsit Fish: Slender striped fish.
Salt Thassa Fish: Salt Thassa Fish is just that, a small fish from the gleaming Thassa, served baked or broiled.
Sa-tasna: (lit. life-mother) meat food in general.
Tabuk: is described as a one horned, yellowish Antelope. The meat is then grilled.
Tamber Gulf Oysters: From the Tamber Gulf, these oysters are served raw or baked.
Tarsk: porcine animal similar to a pig, ham, bacon or chops. One way to prepare it, is stuffed with Suls and Peppers
Tumits: A large carnivorous bird of the plains. It is hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos and the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night.
Verr: A goat-like animal. The meat can be eaten, roasted or grilled. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. Verr must be steamed in the ground wrapped in leaves for the whole day...then it is not bitter or stringy.
Vosk Carp: Vosk carp is a carp fish from the river Vosk. It is served baked, fried, or broiled.
Vosk Sorp: Vosk Sorp is a shellfish similar to the Urthen oyster. Like an oyster, it manufactures pearls. It is often used in making soups and stews.
Vulo: A small pigeon-like bird. Can be cooked and eaten. 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. Served roasted and spiced.
Fruit and Vegetables
Celane Melon: Similar to Urthen honeydew melon, it is served chilled and sliced.
Dates: These come from the City of Tor.
Ka-la-na: a sweet, juicy fruit - similar to a pear?
Katch: Foliated leaf vegetable similar to Urthen lettuce.
Kort: A large, brownish, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width. The flesh of which is yellowish, fibrous, and heavily seeded. Served Sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg, a fruit of the Tahari.
Kes: a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are an ingredient in sullage.
Larma: a succulent fruit, rather like an apple, served fresh or sliced and fried, served with browned- honey sauce; or fried and served as a vegetable. Served only when requested by a Master or Mistress, or served by the slave when they wished to be used by that Master or Mistress.
Olives: These are commonly from the city of Tor. They are referred to as Torian Olives.
Ram berries: small succulent berries. similar to that of an Urthen raspberry
Redfruit: Similar in flesh and taste to apples of Urth origins.
Red Olives: These come from the groves of Tyros.
Sul: a starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit, tuberous root of the Sul plant, principle ingredient in sullage. Can also be baked, or sliced and fried - similar to a potato, except grows above ground. One way of serving is to break it open and fill it with melted Bosk cheese. Can be distilled into the drink called paga.
Ta-grapes: large, sweet and seedless grapes, imported from Tyros.
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.
Tur-Pah: An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves that grows on the tur tree.
Vegetables: various vegetables such as peas, beans, tomatoes, squash, etc. from seed imported from Earth.
Staples
Black Bread: Baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains. It is heavy and dark in color and served with clotted Bosk cream or honey.
Butter: Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr. Cheese: Made from the milk of the Bosk or Verr.
Rence: A water plant. Its grain is eaten, 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 be fried into a type of pancake.
Sa-Tarna: A grain, yellow in color. It is a staple of Gor. It is brewed into paga and it is also ground and used to bake the Sa-Tarna bread.
Sa-Tarna Bread: Also known as Yellow Bread. It is staple food in every Gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into six sections.
Sugar: Yellow and white sugar from the juices of crushed cane stalks.
Dishes
Sa-Tarna Gruel: a
thick paste of boiled sa-tarna cold, unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal, with vegetables and shreds of meat added, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel'.
Sullage: a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes along with whatever else may be handy.
Beverages
Ale: Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer. It is deep in color and traditionally served in a goblet.
Black wine: Earth coffee from seeds imported from Earth and grown in Thentis; traditionally served with red and yellow sugars and bosk milk, in a small cup. The serve is described below
Bazi tea: an herbal beverage (pekoe, green tea, from seeds imported from Earth?); traditionally served hot & heavily sugared, drunk 3 tiny glasses at a time.
Bosk Milk: Milk from the Bosk, it is rich, thick, and sweet.
Chocolate: This is the same as the chocolate of Urth,made from the beans brought back on one of the Voyages of Acquisition. You may find chocolate in higher-class establishments. It is served hot and in a mug.
Ka-la-na: A sweet strong red wine, made from the grapes of the ka-la-na plants. Some of the best comes from the city of Ar. This drink symbolizes romantic love. It is served, chilled or warm, in a goblet.
Kal-da: : A beverage generally served hot from copper kettles. It is cheap Ka-la-na wine mixed with citrus juices, such as tospit and larma, and hot spices. It is cheap and tastes good... until you get to the bottom of the kettle! It is served in a footed bowl.
Mead: made in Torvaldsland from fermented honey; thick and sweet.
Mulled Ka-la-na: Heated ka-la-na, with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of ka-la-na fruit or tospit, served in a goblet.
Sand Kaiila Milk: Milk from the Sand Kaiila. It is reddish and salty and high in ferrous sulfate.
Sa-Tarna Paga: Usually known as paga. It is brewed from the grain of Sa-Tarna and is similar to Urthen whiskey. It symbolizes physical love (lust). It is served in a footed bowl.
Second wine: a sweet beverage, which counteracts the effects of slavewine, making a slave girl fertile; also called breeding wine.
Slave wine: a black, bitter beverage that acts as a contraceptive; its effect is almost instantaneous and lasts for well over a month.
Sul-paga: distilled alcoholic drink made from suls; akin to vodka, served in a footed bowl. It also symbolizes physical love (lust).
Ta-wine: a sweet dry white wine made from ta-grapes; served in a goblet.
Turian-wine: a syrupy, highly sweetened wine common in Turia.
