...
Like a normal apricot
from earth.
"I brushed away
two sellers of apricots and spices."---Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
"...and beans,
berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons."
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37
"Grunt, from his
own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk
from Sa-Tarna flour."
---Savages of Gor, pg. 328
Baked soft and full
flavored from Gorean grains. It is heavy and dark in color and 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, pg 13
Are often mentioned on
sites as "smuggled to Gor from earth. Very rare.". Actually the writer
didn't find anything in the books about blueberries and thinks the
blue/purple berries are gorean ram berries.
"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. The bond-maids did
not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mudlike Sa-Tarna meal, with
raw fish. They fed, however."
---Marauders of Gor, pg 64/65
Bosk meat is similar to
earth's beef. It can be served roasted and sliced, or as steaks. It is
usually served with slices of kalana and sprinkles of tospit to garnish.
The milk of the Bosk is
very drinkable and can be used to make cheese and is churned for butter.
"The meat was a
steak cut from the loin, a juge shaggy long horned bovine, meat is seared,
as thick as the forearm of a Warrior on a small iron grill on a kindling
of charcoal cylinders so that the thin margin on the outside was black,
crisp and flaky sealed within by the touch of the fire - the blood rich
felsh hot and fat with juice."
---Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 45
"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 domelike
wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skin cover their bodies"
---Nomads of Gor, pg 4/5
Churned from the milk of
the Bosk or the Verr. stored in keg
"We stopped by
the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of
butter."---Marauders of Gor, pg 101
"He yelled
something raucous and ribald. 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 stick, from the bottom, is thrust
up, deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten."
---Dancer of Gor, pg 81
"... 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, ..."
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 37
"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, pg 275-276
Made from the milk of the
bosk or verr.
"...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, pg 168
The Isles of Tyros, are
mentioned as producing cherries.
"With the tip of
my tongue I touched her lips. Some slave cosmetics are flavored. "Does
Master enjoy my taste?" she asked. "The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I
know," she said. "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said."---Beasts of Gor, 28
Made from cocoa beans,
also cold or hot chocolate as drink.
It was the first
sweet I had had since I had been brought to Gor. In the plain diet of a
slave girl, such things are very precious. Girls would fight and tear at
one another for a chocolate.---Slave Girl of Gor, pg
At such times I
was sometimes given chocolates to eat. "Let them have something pleasant
to remember," had said one of the fellows, at one of these times. "We
would not want them to forget you," had said another.---Dancer Of Gor, pg
No specific description
given.
"In Kantasawi,"
he said, "the moon when the plums are red." This was the moon following
the next moon, which is known variously as Takiyuhawi, the moon in which
the tabuk rut, or Canpasapawi, the moon when the chokecherries are ripe.
"Will this give you time to return to Kailia."---Savages of Gor, pg. 253
"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
"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 p 98
"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
No specific description
given
"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, p 233
A small blue four-spined
fish of the waters of Cos whit poisonnous spines. Called so for it's
ability to "fly" above the waters for a short distance. Its liver is
considered a delicacy.
"Now this,
Saphrar the merchant was telling me, is the braised liver of the blue,
four-spines 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 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-spined 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 delicacies of delicacies."
---Nomads of Gor, p 23
Normally made from then
rich sweet bosk milk, the creams are skimmed of the top.
From the city of Tor,
they are said to be the same as earth dates. No specific description
given.
"The
principal export of the oases are dates and pressed-date bricks. Some of
the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years
before they begin to bear fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than
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, pg 37
"Some of these
pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels,
the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies.".---Magicians of Gor, pg. 428
"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, pg 114
Gant eggs:
Red Hunters of the polar cap, collect the eggs of the artic gant, which
nests on cliffs. They are eaten frozen, like an apple would be.
"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 mountaim 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, pg 196
Grunt eggs:
tiny eggs of the white grunt
"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, pg. 275/76
Vulo eggs: eggs of
the vulo, a small pigeon-like bird.
"Soon, I smelled
the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan"---Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 73
Lots of seafood on gor:
Cosnian Wingfish, Carp, Eel, Oysters, Parsit Fish, even caviar and
sharks. Some fishes are poisonous and need careful preparations.
These include such
fruits similar to Earth fruits like apricots, berries, cherries, dates,
grapes, melons, olives, yellow peach, yellow pear, plums, pomegranates,
raisins, strawberries and gorean fruits like chokecherries, larma, ka-la-na,
ram-berries, ta-grapes and tospits.
Similar to the earthen
duck.
"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, pg 4
"I have peas and
turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." said the man..."
---Outlaw of Gor, pg 29
Like earthen honey.
"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, pg 81
"...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, pg 143
"The High
Initiate had risen to his feet and accepted a goblet from another
Initiate, probably containing minced flavored ices, for the day was warm."
"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, p 141
A large herd animal
described as if a relative of the bosk. The kailiauk is to the Red
Savages much what the bosk is to the Nomads of the Plains. Its meat is
prepared in a variety of ways, including dried in strips.
"The red savages
depend for their very lives on the kailiauk" said Kog. "He is the major
source of their food and life.His meat and hide, his bones and sinew,
sustain them. From him they derive not only food but clothing and shelter,
tools and weapons."---Savages of Gor, pg 50
"Strips of
kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded
fine, almost to a powder. 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.
This, like the dried meat, or jerky, from which it is made, can be eaten
either raw or cooked. It is not uncommon for both to be carried in hunting
or on war parties. Children will also carry it in their play. The thin
slicing of the meat not only abets its preservation, effected by time, the
wind and sun, but makes it impractical for flies to lay their eggs in it.
Jerky and pemmican, which is usually eaten cooked in the villages, is
generally boiled. In these days a trade pot or kettle is normally used. In
the old days it was prepared by stone-boiling."---Blood Brothers of Gor, pg 46
A sweet, juicy red fruit
from the yellow/golden kalana tree, it is used to make wine and garnishes
for drinks and the wood is used for making a wide variety of products like
ships and weapons...the Peasant Bow is made with kalana branches
"I picked some
Ka-la-na fruit and opened one of the packages of rations. Talena returned
and sat beside me on the grass. I shared the food with her."---Tarnsman of Gor, pg 8
"Over there," I
said, "are some Ka-la-na trees. Wait here and I'll gather some fruit."
---Tarnsman of Gor, pg 96
A foliated leaf vegetable
similar to Earthen lettuce.
"At the oasis
will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the
desert; beans, berries, onions tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a
foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch,"---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 37
A small shrub which grows
in sandy soils. Its roots are a main ingredient of Sullage.
"The principal
ingredients of Sullage are..............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, p 45
A yellow fibrous
vegetable usually served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. Likely
belonging to a squash family.
"...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, p 37
There are two varieties
of larma, a hard larma and a segmented juicy larma. The hard variety is
red with a crunchy shell like an apple. It has a single-seed, a large
stone, and therefore is also called a pit fruit. If a slave offers a larma
to her Master, it is a plea to be raped. The segmented type is more
similar to an orange.
Hard larma:
is sometimes called the pit fruit, because of its large single stone.
Fried larma with a browned honey sauce is a common dish. Cal also be eaten
as vegetable.
"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, perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single
stone."
---Players of Gor, p 267
Succulent, juicy
larma: a sweet fruit. It is served sliced. 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.
"The
larma is luscious. It has a rather hard said Hurtha ell but the shell is
brittle and easily broken. Within, the fleshy endocarp, the fruit, is
delicious, and very juicy."
---Renegade of Gor, pg 437
"He then picked
up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed
partly crunching as he went through the shell, partly squishing as he bit
into the fleshy, segmented endocarp."---Nomads of Gor, pg 19
The most common meats are
tabuk, bosk, tarsk and verr. Tarsk is rather salty, like pork. Many of
these meats are roasted over an open flame. They are served in a variety
of ways. Sausages are also made with some of these meats. Vulo is the
primary type of poultry. At least some of the meat of the vulo is white
meat. It too is served in a myriad of ways.
Yellowish red-striped
spheres.
"Buy melons!
called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped
spheres toward me. "---Tribesmen of Gor, p 45
"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-enamled 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, p 10
"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, p 83
"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, pg
"To the oases
caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths,
silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes,
hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather
goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, rough
woods, sheets of tin and copper, the tea of Bazi, wool from the bounding
Hurt, decorated, beaded whips, female slaves, and may other forms of
merchandise."---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 7
"I had returned
late to the compartment. Mis Blake Allen, head to the floor, knelt when I
entered. 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, p 47
From the cities of Tor
and Tyros, the latter producing the red olive.
"... 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, pg 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, pg 114
"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, 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 yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded."---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 37
Similar to earth oysters.
"Other girls had
prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed,
containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the
plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for
the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself."---Captive of Gor, pg. 301,
A slender striped fish
from the cold waters of the North. Torvaldslanders salt it and export it
in barrels. It is also added to the gruel of bond-maids (slaves of the
North).
"The slender
striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may
there, particularly in the spring and the fall, be taken in great numbers.
The smell of the fish-drying sheds of Kassau carries far out to sea."---Marauders of Gor, pg 20
"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, pg 28
Mentioned on numerous
occasion as simply 'pastries', the usual qualities found in Earth made
pastries are pretty much used as descriptives.
"He
sat,cross-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, pg 20
Similar to earth peaches,
its yellow.
"At
my father’s insistence, I began to eat, reluctantly, never taking my eyes
from him, hardly tasting the food, which was simple but excellent. The
meat reminded me of venison; it was not the meat of an animal raised on
domestic grains. It had been roasted over an open flame. The bread was
still hot from the oven. The fruit - - grapes and peaches of some sort - -
was fresh and cold as mountain snow"---Tarnsman of Gor., pg 22
"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, pg 27/28
"In her hand
there was a half of a yellow Gorean pear, the remains of a half moon of
verr cheese imbedded in it."
----Explorers of Gor, pg 6
Noted as Gorean peas
although no specific description is given.
"The Tarn
Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought 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, pg 168
"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, pg 87
Food mixture of the Red
Savages, made mainly of dried kailiauk meat and fruit.
"'Wakapapi,'
said Cuwignaka to me. This is the Kaiila word for pemmican. A soft cake of
this substance was pressed into my hands. I crumbled it. In the winter, of
course, such cakes can be frozen solid. One then breaks them into smaller
pieces, warms them in one's hands and mouth, and eats them bit by bit. I
lifted the crumbled pemmican to my mouth and ate of it. There are various
ways in which pemmican may be prepared, depending primarily on what one
adds to the mixture, in the way of herbs, seasonings and fruit.
A common
way of preparing it is as follows. Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced
and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder.
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.
This, like the
dried meat, or jerky, from which it is made, can be eaten either raw or
cooked. It is not uncommon for both to be carried in hunting or on war
parties. Children will also carry it in their play. The thin slicing of
the meat not only abets its preservation, effected by time, the wind and
sun, but makes it impractical for flies to lay their eggs in it. Jerky and
pemmican, which is usually eaten cooked in the villages, is generally
boiled. In these days a trade pot or kettle is normally used. In the old
days it was prepared by stone-boiling."---Blood Brothers of Gor, pg 46
No specific description
given.
"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
"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
Hard larma, a firm,
single-seeded, apple-like fruit unlike the segmented, juicy (see larma)
"I was jostled
to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped
into a basket of plums."---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 45
Orchards of pomegranate
are found growing at the Oasis of Red Rock.
"Pomegranate
orchards lie at the east of the oasis," I said. "Gardens lie inward. There
is even a pond, between two of the groves of date palms."---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 11
...
There is sul porridge and
grain porridge. Both are often seasoned and some people prefer to season
it themselves. A hand-rack of small vials and pots of seasonings, spices
and condiments will often be brought with the porridge.
"I observed
Phyllis Robertson performing the belt dance, on love furs spread between
the tables, under the eyes of the Warriors of Cernus and the members of
his staff. Beside me Ho-Tu was shoveling porridge into his mouth with a
horn spoon."
---Assassins of Gor, pg
Mentioned as grown at
least in the Barrens area. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
"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
Two sorts are mentioned:
the 'sphere' and the 'cylinder' varieties.
"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, pg 37
"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, pg
Small, reddish or purple fruit with edible seeds.
"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, p 305
A water plant. Its grain
is eaten, the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth.
The grain may be boiled, is used to make rence beer or ground into a paste
and sweetened. This paste can be fried into a type of pancake.
"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.beer.
"---Raiders of Gor, pg 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 of Gor, p 44
Rence seems to be like
earthen rice but "rice" is mentioned as well:
"I went to the
side and removed a bowl from its padded, insulating wrap. Its contents
were still warm. It was a mash of cooked vulo and rice. "---Players of Gor, pg 380
Salt comes in various
colors among which white, yellow and red are noted, the Thorvaldslanders
gather their salt from the sea.
Salt, red
"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, pg 238
Salt sea
"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, pg 186-187
Salt, white
"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, pg 238
Salt, yellow
"It had been expected, I gathered, that I would sit at one of the two long
side tables, and perhaps even below the bowls of red and yellow salt which
divided these tables."
---Assassin of Gor, pg 86
Most commonly yellow
grain that is a staple of Gor; called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter. It is
used to make bread as well as brewing paga. A darker form of it is grown
in the Tahari desert. Many are under the misconception that the bread is
cut into six pieces. This is based on two references in the early books.
Multiple references in the latter books though correct this error and even
give a reason for commonality of the eight-slice cut. As there are eight
tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, bread is also similarly cut. There are other
grains available on Gor. One type makes black bread which is most common
with the Low Castes. It is cheaper and of poorer quality than Sa-Tarna
bread.
"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, pg 216
"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, p 43
Brownish Sa-Tarna
"At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the
heat of the desert"
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg.37
"... literally
means 'life mother'. It is synonymous with the word meat. ".--Tarnsman of Gor, p 43
"There were several yards
of sausages hung on hooks; numerous cannisters of flour, sugars and salts;
many smaller containers of spices and condiments." ---Assassins of Gor, pg
271
"I did not
forget the slave, of course. Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards
before her. It was slave bread, rough and coarse-grained.. "---Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 48
A mixture of Sa-Tarna
grain, suplements, scraps and water fed to slaves. In Torvaldsland, raw
pieces of parsit fish are added to the gruel, in other areas it is easy to
imagine whatever was the local staple would be part of this slave
'porridge'
"The bond-maids
did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mud-like Sa-Tarna meal;
with raw fish. "---Marauders of Gor, pg 65
"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, pg 257
No precise description
given.
"Once the
Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with her left
hand, for snails, that they not be thrown overboard. Returning to me he
held one of the snails, whose shell he crushed between his fingers, and
sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing it. He then threw the shell
fragments overboard. "They are edible," he said. "And we use them for fish
bait."---Marauders of Gor
Many spices including
nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, spikenard, various salts including red and
yellow salt, and hot peppers. The Tahari is known for very spicy foods.
Seldom will one
find there Torian rolls of gold wire, interlocking cubes of silver from
Tharna, rubies carved into tiny, burning panthers from Schendi, nutmegs
and cloves, spikenard and peppers from the lands east of Bazi, the floral
brocades, the perfumes of Tyros, the dark wines, the gorgeous diaphanous
silks of glorious Ar.
---Captive of Gor, pg
"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
On Gor are at least four
varieties of different sugars though only two are desribed, white and
yellow Turian sugar.
"Lola now
returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert,
slices of topsit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars." --Rogue of Gor, pg 132
"There was a
brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of
yellow Turian sugar... "---Nomads of Gor, pg 23
"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"---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 89
A root vegetable. Its
description would make it quite similar to the earth potato. Can also be
baked (and open and filled with cream or bask cheese) or sliced and
fried-similar to a potato, except grows above ground. It is also used in
the making of the Gorean peasant's liquor, Sul-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, pg 80
"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, pg 168
Gorean vegetable soup.
"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, a
small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."
---Priest Kings of Gor, pg 45
There is chocolate,
cakes, pastries with creams, honey, hard candy, mint sticks, flavored,
minced ices and nuts are all common. Often fruits are candied. Tastas,
stick candies, are soft, rounded, succulent candies, usually covered with
a coating of syrup or fudge, and mounted on a stick like a candy apple.
Sweets seem to be a reward for kajirae.
"Candies!
Candies!" called a hawker of sweets near me in the crowd. "Candies of Ar!"---Beasts of Gor, pg
One horned berry eating
antelope known for the sweetness of its meat. There are differences
between the Northern tabuk and his more Southern cousin. Its meat is cut
in steaks and grilled. steaks and chops made from a small yellow antelope.
Very tender, sometimes smoked.
"Gripped in the
talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one of the
one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-la-na
thickets of Gor."--Tarnsman of Gor, pg 145
"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, pg 152
From the Isle of Cos,
these plumb sized grapes ressemble those of earth and are used to make
Ta-wine, but may also be eaten as is, should be sliced and skinned in
front of the Master/Mistress
"The grapes were
purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced
island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar."
---Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 45
"I retrieved a
grape about the size of a small plum from the table before it could be
cleared away. It was peeled and pitted, doubtless laboriously by female
slaves. It was a Ta-Grape."---Players of Gor, pg 291
It is fat, 6 tusks,
shaggy-maned, short-legged and hoofed with a bristly mane that run down
over its back to the base of the tail. It is very aggressive and wild, but
a major source of meat on Gor often roasted whole.
"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, pg 44
"... if I were
lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of
Gor’s temperate forests."
---Outlaw of Gor, pg 75
"He yelled
something raucous and ribald. 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 stick, from the bottom,
is thrust up, deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten."
---Dancer of Gor, pg 81,
Named for the large
number of seeds it holds, this small yellow peach-like fruit, about the
size of a plum, is bitter in taste though edible. It is commonly eaten
sliced with honey, used in syrups, or its juices used as a flavoring. It
usually has an odd number of seeds except for the rare, long-stemmed
variety. Tospit is also used as a target in some of the throwing games of
the Wagon People.
"On the back of
the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced
past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a
dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about
the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are
indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter
but edible."---Nomads of Gor, pg 8
"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,pg 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. Both fruits
are indistinguishable outwardly. I could see that, perhaps by accident,
the tospit which Kamchak had thrown me had had the stem twisted off. It
must be then, I surmised, the rare, long-stemmed tospit."---Nomads of Gor, pg 149
"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, pg 2
I" gathered that
the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous
birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold, and others
seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness." Nomads of Gor,
pg. 2, by John Norman.I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the
large flightless, carnivourous birds of the southern plains, was at hand"
---Nomads of Gor, pg 331
No specific 'Gorean'
description offered.
"They supplement
their diets by picking berries and digging wild turnips, said the first
lad."---Blood Brothers of Gor, pg 124
"I have peas and
turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man, his bundle like a
giant's hump on his back."
---Outlaw of Gor, pg 29
A parasite plant of the
Tur tree. Its leaves are red and curly.
"The principal
ingredients of Sullage are...........the curled, red, ovate leaves of the
Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees.... "---Priest Kings of Gor, p 45
Yegetables similar to
Earth ones like carrot, corn, garlic, mushroom, onions, peas, peppers,
pumpkins, radish, squash, and turnips but also gorean veggies like katch,
korts and suls.
A herd mammal that
ressembles the earthen goats. It is raised also for consumption of its
milk, used to make cheeses and butter.
"The verr was a
mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered
beast, long-haired and spiral-horn."
---Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 6
"In the cafes, I
had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a
metal rod"
---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 48
is a carp fish from the
river Vosk. It is served baked, fried, or broiled
"I saw the
sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion,
turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle"---Raiders of Gor, pg 1
Like an oyster, it
manufactures pearls. It is often used in making soups and stews.
"There were
poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer
strings; papers containing praises of Priest-Kings, which might be carried
on one’s person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung
pearls of the Vosk sorp"---Assassins of Gor, pg
A small pigeon-like bird
that 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.
"She was a
peasant, barefoot, her garment little more than coarse sacking. She had
been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domesticated pigeons
raised for eggs and meat."
---Nomads of Gor, pg. 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"
---Nomads of Gor, pg 83
Another fish of the cold waters of the North.
"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, pg 59
Yellow Gorean bread made
from Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked in round loaves and is a staple of most
Gorean meals.
"I thought of
the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh
and hot"---Outlaw of Gor, pg 76"
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