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FOODS
"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."
Tribesmen of Gor page 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, p 48
"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
Breads and Grains
Biscuits
Flat pressed biscuits baked from Sa-Tarna flour
Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour.
Savages of Gor, page 328
Black Bread
Baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains. It is 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 Grain
Most commonly a yellow grain that is a staple of Gor. It is used to make bread as well as brewing paga. It is said a darker form of it is grown in the Tahari desert, its hull stronger to withstand the heat and winds.
"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
"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..."
Tribesmen of Gor page 37
Sa-Tarna Bread
Yellow Gorean bread made from Sa-Tarna grain is a staple served with most Gorean meals. The bread is rounded and marked into sections before baking. There is also a dried pressed biscuits described as baked in Kailiauk from sa-tarna flour.
"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
"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot"
Outlaw of Gor page 76
Slave Gruel
A thick paste mixture boiled of Sa-Tarna grain and water fed to slaves. Often, raw pieces of parsit fish or shreds of meat and vegetables are added to the gruel.
"The bond-maids did not much care for their gruel,
unsweetened, mud-like Sa-Tarna meal; with raw fish."
Marauders of Gor page 65
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 page 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
Rence Paste and Cakes
Rence is a rice type, aquatic plant found in large quantities in the Delta of the Vosk, also known as the land of Rence People. The plant is used largely to make paper which ‘rencers’ sell to the merchants of Port Kar for exportation to the rest of Gor. It can also be woven into cloth. Its pith, the center of the stem is edible. It is made into a paste, fired into cakes and distilled into beer.
"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
Dairy
Butter
Made from the milk of the verr or bosk.
" 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 or verr, they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard wax rinds.
"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
Eggs
Goreans eat the eggs of the vulo, a fowl considerably smaller than the earth chicken, vulo eggs are cooked in the same array of manners as chicken eggs.
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan…"
Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
"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
I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory artic 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
Before each guests 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.
Fighting Slave of Gor, page 276
Fruit
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
Cherries
"’It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros,’ I said."
Beasts of Gor, page 349
Dates
From the city of Tor, they are said to be the same as earth dates.
"The principal export of the oasis are dates, or pressed-date bricks."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa. "
Tribesmen of Gor, page 46
Ka-la-na
From the kalana tree of the plains of Ka-la-na. The Fruit makes a very potent dry wine or sweet red wine, grows on a tree with very strong yellow wood. Similar to the pear.
"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,
wine like 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 Guards of the Home Stone resume their vigil."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 68
Larma
A succulent segmented, juicy fruit, rather like an orange, served fresh or sliced and fried with browned-honey sauce.
"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."
Renegades of Gor, page 437
"I idly observed the dancer. Her eyes were on me. It seemed, in her hands,
she held ripe fruits for me, lush larma, fresh picked. Her wrists were close together,
as though confined by the links of slave bracelets. She touched the imaginary larma to
her body, caressing her swaying beauty with it, and then, eyes piteous, held her hands forth,
as though begging me to accept the lush fruit. Men at the table clapped their hands on the wood,
and looked at me. Others smote their left shoulder. I smiled. 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"------".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 larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh."
Tribesmen of Gor, pages 27
"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded
apple like 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, page 267
Melon
"Buy melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish,
red-striped spheres toward me."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
Mul Fungus
Eaten by the Muls in the Nest of the Priest Kings. Bland and tasteless, fibrous sort of
matter.
"It is not hard to get used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no taste, being and extremely bland,
pale, whitish, vegetablelike matter."
Priest Kings of Gor, page 109
Nuts
Used among other things, in vulo stew.
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 47
Olives
Torian Olives are commonly from the City of Tor. Red Olives come from the groves of Tyros.
"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
"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
Yellow peach similar to those of earth.
"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, page 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, page 27
Pit Fruit
Also known as the hard larma, this is a firm, single-seeded, apple like fruit.
I took a slice of hard larma from my tray. This is a firm, single-seeded, apple like 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
Plums
"I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums."
Tribesmen of Gor, pages 45,
Ram-berries
Small reddish fruit native to Gor used to make jams and 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
Tospit
A small juicy peach-like citrus fruit that is about the size of a plum. The tospit is yellow in color and are bitter, but edible. Often they are dried and candied. Used to make wagers on the number of seeds. Odd or even or the number of odd seeds, since most tospits have an odd number of seeds. It is also used in throwing games of skill with the knife.
" 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
Ta-grapes
From the Isle of Cos, these grapes resemble those of earth and are used to make 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.
VEGETABLES
Carrots
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 yellowish, 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, p 233
Garlic
"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, page 29
Katch
Lettuce type vegtable
"... a foliated leaf vegetable, called katch"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
Kes
A small deeply rooted shrub which grows best in sandy soils. Its secondary roots are a main ingredient of Sullage.
" 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 yellow fibrous vegetable usually served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.
"...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
Mushrooms
"Have a stuffed mushroom."
Mercenaries of Gor, page 81
Onions
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut."
Outlaw of Gor, page 29
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 47
Peas
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut."
Outlaw of Gor, page 29
"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
Radish
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 yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
Sul
A root vegetable quite similar to the earth potato. It is also used in the making of the Gorean equivalent of vodka, 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, 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
Sullage
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"
Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
Turnips
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 yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut."
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.
"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
"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
Meat
"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 thalarion oil lamp hanging from the ceiling..."
Assassin of Gor, pages 271-272
"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
Bosk
Similar to earth's beef, the flesh of this herd mammal may be served sliced as in steaks, deep pit roasted with herbs and spices. It is also stewed, broiled or dried. Bosk is preferably served rare.
"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, pages 4
"The meat was a steak cut from the loin, a huge 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 flesh hot and fat with juice"
Outlaw of Gor, page 45
Though similar in build to the Yak of earth the Bosk bares 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, page 4
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
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
"...poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks,..."
Raiders of Gor, page 41
"I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated 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
Tabuk
One horned berry eating antelope known for the sweetness of its meat. It is served roasted or grilled.
"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, page 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, page 152
"my mouth watered for a tabuk steak…"
Outlaw of Gor, page 76
Tarn
A rare delicacy eaten on the battlefield by Warriors after a battle. The tarn is roasted, cut into chunks and served with red, blood gravy.
"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
Tarsk
Porcine animal akin to the Earth pig. A six tusked wild boar having a bristly mane down its spine to the base of the tail.
"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 roated 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, page76
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
Tumits
Large carnivorous flightless bird of the southern plains, tumits are roasted and eaten by the nomadic peoples, the sport lies in the fact that none is quite sure who will eat supper, the bird or the nomads.
"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,
carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand"
Nomads of Gor, page 331
Verr
A goat-like animal. The meat can be roasted or stewed. It's milk, more strong and darker colored, 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."
Tribesman of Gor, page 37
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. The bird itself is served roasted, stuffed with herbs, grains and spices, or it may be baked.
The brains of the vulo are a delicacy as well.
"She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos,
a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs
and meat"
Nomads of Gor, page 1
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 47
"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
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan"
Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
"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
Fish and Seafood
Caviar
"In the hall was a open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. There were four men and two women at these tables, other then the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past several days, the Lady Metpomene. 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
Cosian Wingfish
The wingfish is a tiny (about the size of a tarn disc) blue salt-water fish with 3- 4 slender
poisonous spines on it's dorsal fin. It's liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
Nomads of Gor page 84
"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 song fish 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, page 23
Eel
"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
Oysters
Similar to earth 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
Parsit Fish
A thin silver 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.
"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
White Grunt
A 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, page 59
Sugar and Spice
Candy
"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, page 81
Chocolate
The beans originally taken from Earth, chocolate is now grown and used on Gor as well.
"This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy.
Kajira of Gor, page 61
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, page 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, page 98
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, page 81
Honey Cakes
"..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
Mint Sticks
"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
Pemmican
a soft cake made up of meat for protein and cherries for sugar, considered a high energy food
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.
Blood Brothers of Gor, page 46
Salt
Salt is obtained from sea water or from the burning of seaweed. In the south yellow and red salt is found above or below ground. White salt comes from the areas around Klima, though there are mines that produce 'red salt', red from ferrous oxide in its composition, called the Red Salt of Kasar.
"Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from the 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
"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
"...Near him in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt...."
Nomads of Gor, page 253
Spices
Peppers specifically and spices. Mentioned in Explorers of Gor, as one of the main trades of Schendi, cloves and cinnamon are named.
"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 Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions,
relished strong tastes and smells. Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children
in the Tahari 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."
Tribesman, page 46
Sugar
There is mention on many occasions of "colored sugar" though the only two actually described are the 'white' and 'yellow'. It is believed that the yellow sugar are made from the juices of crushed cane stalks.
"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, page 132
"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."
Tribesman of Gor, page 89
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."
"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 in a coating of syrup or fudge,
rather in the nature of the caramel apple, but much smaller, and, like the caramel apple, mounted on sticks.
The candy is prepared and then the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten. "
Dancer of Gor, page 81