Food

FOOD

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From Master:
no only what foods go with each other. a helpful hint though is if it's red meat you'd serve a red wine, white meat white wine. beer, ale and mead go with just about everything except deserts.
"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; 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..." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37


popular Breakfast on Gorean holidays?
bazi tea and cakes

Apricot : apparently identical to the apricot of Earth; references exist of the fruit being sold in marketplaces of the Tahari. "I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45

Aquatic Life
"...poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks,..."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 41

"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44

"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44

"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."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 73

"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."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 98

Arctic Gant Eggs : eggs of the migratory Arctic gant; when frozen, they are eaten like apples.
"Beasts of Gor" p. 196

Beans : no description "Marauders of Gor" p. 81
--In the North-- "...fields, fenced with rocks, in the sloping area. In them were growing, small at this season, shafts of Sa-Tarna; too, there would be peas, and beans, cabbages and onions, and patches of the golden sul, capable of surviving at this latitude."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 98

"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.....and beans, berries, onion tuber suls,..."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
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."
Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 208
"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; 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."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Biscuits :
a dried pressed biscuits described as baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour. "...I ate the meal that satisfied me as no other had ever done, though it consisted only of some mouthfuls of water, some stale biscuits, and a wrapper of dried meat." Tarnsman of Gor, page 143

"Savages of Gor" p. 328

Black Bread :
baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey. "Hunters of Gor" p. 13
"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."
Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 13

Bond-Maid Gruel :
a porridge served to bond-maids in Torvaldsland made of dampened Sa-Tarna and raw fish.
"Marauders of Gor" p. 67

Bosk :
Similiar to the yak or buffalo of Earth, this huge animal with its thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair provides food, leather, milk and other essentials for the Wagon Peoples and Others of Gor. served as beef is served"Priest-Kings of Gor" p. 45

"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"
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 45

"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."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168

Butter :
Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr. "Marauders of Gor" p. 81

"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."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 98
" '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."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 156

Cabbages :
no description given "Marauders of Gor" p. 81.
--In the North-- "...fields, fenced with rocks, in the sloping area. In them were growing, small at this season, shafts of Sa-Tarna; too, there would be peas, and beans, cabbages and onions, and patches of the golden sul, capable of surviving at this latitude." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 98

Cakes
Fried Maize, Honey, Pemmican and Rence
" 'Master?' asked Tuka, kneeling, holding the tray. We took the fried maize cakes from the tray. Then the tray was empty, save for one object, a segment of dried root, about two to three inches long and a half inch wide."
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 369

"from a vendor, the Forkbeard bought his girls honey cake; with their fingers they ate it eagerly, crumbs at the side of their mouths..."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 144

" 'She seems hungry,' I said. I had noted that she was eyeing the cake of pemmican in his hand.
'Forgive me, Strawberry!' he said. 'I am so thoughtless.'
He quickly broke the cake of pemmican in two.
I put my hand on his arm. 'You are the male,' I said. 'It is yours, not hers.'
'I will share it with her of course.' he said.
'She has not yet begged,' I said.
He looked at me, startled. Then he, in confusion, looked again upon the girl.
'I beg for something to eat,' she said, smiling.
He quickly gave her half of the tiny cake of pemmican and she, on her knees, naked, swiftly, ravenously, ate it."
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 294

"We then went and sat down where Mira, on leaves, had set forth our food. We chewed the cold pemmican. We would not make a fire in this place. From time to time, chewing, we cast a glance at Mira. She knelt to one side, her head down. She was very beautiful. It was difficult not to anticipate the pleasures we would later receive from her. I threw her a piece of pemmican."
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 329

"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."
Book 6, Raiders Gor, page 44

"Holding half the rence cake in her mouth she unrolled her sleeping mat and then, as she had the night before, she unlaced her tunic and slipped it off over her head. She threw it to the corner of the hut, on her left, near her feet. She sat on the sleeping mat and finished the rence cake. Then she wiped her mouth with her arm, and slapped her hands together, freeing them of crumbs."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 46

Candy :
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.
"Dancer of Gor" p 81 ( also see below Mint Sticks)

Carrots
"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...and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties,..."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
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 than 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

Celane Melon : similar to honeydew melon, it is served chilled and sliced. "Tribesmen of Gor" page 45.

Cheese : Pressed from the milk of the Bosk they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds. "Assassin of Gor" p. 168

"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."

Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, pages 47 - 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."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168 ~¤~

Cherries : Grown in Tyros. "Beasts of Gor" p. 349

Chokecherries
"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." Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 46

Chocolate
" 'This is warmed chocolate,' I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy.
'Yes, Mistress,' said the girl.
'It is very good,' I said.
'Thank you, Mistress,' she said.
'Is it from Earth?' I asked.
'Not directly,' she said. 'Many things here, of course, ulitmately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth.'
'Do the trees grow near here?' I asked.
'No Mistress,' she said, 'we obtain the beans from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics.' "
Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 61

cinnamon and 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.' "
Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 98

"The smell of spices, particularly cinnamon and cloves, was now quite strong. We had smelled those even at sea."
Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 109
Cosian Wingfish : also known as songfish due to its whistling mating song; a tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia. "Nomads of Gor" p. 84-85

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."
Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 233
COSIAN WINGFISH-
"'Now this, Saphrar the merchant was telling me, is the braised liver of the blue four-spired 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 the 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-spired wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The small blue fish is liver as the delicacy of delicacies." Nomads of Gor, pages 84


Dates : These come from the City of Tor. staple of the diet of the Tahari Tribesmen; they are sold in a tef (a handful with the 5 fingers closed; a tefa is 6 tefs (a small basket); Five such baskets constitute a huda. In large compressed bricks they are used in trade. "Tribesman of Gor" p. 46
"We then, from the tray, feeding ourselves, taking dates, and slices of larma and pastries, breakfasted and chatted." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 295

Eel :
a voracious animal which can maim or kill a slave in moments. Some varieties are edible and considered a gorean delicacy. Varieties include: river eel, black eel, and spotted eel.
"Magicians of Gor" p. 428
"One dish I recall was composed of the tongues of eels and was sprinkled with flavored aphrodisiacs..."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 204

"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114

Eggs :
usually vulo eggs.. but there are many varieties available depending on the region.
"Nomads of Gor" p. 1 From the Arctic Gant, Vulo and White Grunt
"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."
Book 11, Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
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."
Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275-276
"He sat, crossed-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."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20

Fish, Parsit :
a silvery fish having brown stripes, the follow the 'parsit current' in the polar basin. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south.
"Marauders of Gor" p. 28, 56, and 63-64.

Flavored Ice
"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."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 141

Flour
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks, numerous cannisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments...." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 271 - 272

Gant
Marsh Gant is a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl. It is broad-billed and broad-winged. There is also a Jungle Gant. "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." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44

"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."
Book 6, Raiders Gor, page 44

Garlic : not described in detail "Outlaw of Gor" p. 29
" 'I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.' " Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 29

Grunts : Great Specled - a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors. A large game fish found in the plankton banks. Their black tiny eggs are also eaten. "Slave Girl of Gor" p. 360
" 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."
Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275 - 276

White-bellied:
a large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish. It's eggs are considered a rare delicacy.. like caviar.
"Marauders of Gor" p. 59

Honey :
no description given.. just that honey bees are raised. "Marauders of Gor" p. 81
" 'And put bread over the fire,' I said., 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torain larma fruit." Book 5, Assasin of Gor, page 107

"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."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 81

"... vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey;..."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 48


KAILIAUK-
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. A short-trunked variety is mentioned as living on the Southern Plains."Even past me thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young within the circle of tridents..." Nomads of Gor


Katch :
foliated leaf vegetable similar to lettuce. "Tribesmen of Gor" p. 37
"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 foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables,..."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Kes Shrub :
aThe principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, ...the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a treeparasite, 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

"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 .... and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45

Kort :
often served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg, a large, brownish-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable of the Tahari usually some 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. "Tribesmen of Gor" p. 37

"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."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47

Larma :
they come in two types: 1)juicy = a segmented, succulent fruit, 2 hard = rather like an apple, having one pit, commonly called the pit fruit, it is sometimes sliced and fried, and served with browned honey sauce; offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped. "Players of Gor" p. 267
" 'And put bread over the fire,' I said., 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torain larma fruit."
Book 5, Assasin of Gor, page 107
"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. Sometimes, when a woman is referred to as a `larma,' it is suggested that her hard or frigid exterior conceals a rather different sort of interior, one likely to be quite delicious." Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 437

"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, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood. I shall mention two such devices. There is, first, the bondage knot. The bondage knot is a simple looped knot tied into the girl's hair and worn at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. The girl approaches the master naked and kneels, the bondage knot soft, curled, fallen at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. 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. These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot endure the absence of the masculine caress."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 27 - 28

Marsh Gant:
"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
"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 page 44


Melons :
yellowish, red-striped spheres. "Tribesmen of Gor" p. 45
"A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported....various sorts of melons,...."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37


Mint Sticks :
just mentioned as tiny mint sticks in a bowl "Explorers of Gor" p 10
"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." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 10

Mul-fungus
Fed to the Muls in the Nest, it has almost no taste and is a pale, whitish fibrous vegetablelike matter.

"It is not hard to get used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no taste, being and extremely bland, pale, whitish, fibrous vegetable like matter. I know of no one who is moved much in one direction or the other by its taste. Even the Muls, many of whom have been bred in the Nest, do not particularly like it, nor despise it. It is eaten with much the same lack of attention that we normally breathe air. Muls feed four times a day. In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement; at the final meal Mul-Fungus is pressed into a large, flat cake and sprinkled with a few grains of salt.
Mist told me, and I believe him, that Muls had occasionally slain one another for a handful of salt.
The Mul-Fungus, as far as I can tell, is not much different from the fungus, raised under ideal conditions from specially selected spores, which graces the feed troughs of the Priest-Kings themselves, a tiny sample of which was once given me by Misk. It was perhaps a bit less coarse than Mul-Fungus. Misk was much annoyed that I could not detect the difference. I was much annoyed when I found out later that the major difference between high-quality fungus and the lower-grade Mul-Fungus was simply the smell. I was in the Nest, incidentally, for more than five weeks before I could even vaguely detect the odor difference which seemed so significant to Misk. And then it did not strike me as being better or worse than that of the low-grade Mul-Fungus."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 109

Mushrooms :
no description given "Mercenaries of Gor" p. 82
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."
Book 9, Mercenaries of Gor, page 83

Nuts:
"...vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47

Nutmeg
..a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, pages 47 - 48

Olives : are commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also Red Olives which come from the groves of Tyros. "Raiders of Gor" p. 114
"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."
Book 5, 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." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114

Onions : no description given "Marauders of Gor" p. 81
--In the North-- "...fields, fenced with rocks, in the sloping area. In them were growing, small at this season, shafts of Sa-Tarna; too, there would be peas, and beans, cabbages and onions, and patches of the golden sul, capable of surviving at this latitude."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 98

"...and beans, berries, onion tuber suls,..."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Oysters
"Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk,..."
Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 301

"She threw me one of the oysters."
Book 7, Captive of Gor Page 301

Parsit Fish
Brown striped, silverish fish that is commonly dried and/or used in slave gruel/Sa-Tarna porridge/bond-maid gruel
"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." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 78

"Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 69
"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

Pastries :
nothing specific mentioned. "Fighting Slave of Gor" p. 275-276
'I shop for wealthy women,' said she, 'for pastries and tarts and cakes...things they will not trust their female slaves to buy.' "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 238

"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."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20

"... When she had had a good session Ulafi would sometimes, when he thought of it, throw her a bit of cake or pastry, which she would gratefully receive. She would then kneel before Ulafi and kiss his feet, clutching the bit of cake or pastry. 'Thank you, Master,' she would say. She would then kneel before Sasi, her teacher, and offer her the bit of cake or pastry, which Sasi would take, taking most of it and returning a portion of it to her. 'Thank you, Mistress,' she would say, for Sasi was first girl. She would then creep to her cage, and be locked within it. She would lie curled up in it, a lovely, helpless slave, and try to make the bit of cake or pastry last as long as possible."
Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 77

"On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards."
Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 239

"We then, from the tray, feeding ourselves, taking dates, and slices of larma and pastries, breakfasted and chatted."
Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 295

" 'I lived in Ar for a year,' she said. 'Not far from my apartments there was a pastry shop. Marvelous smells used to come from the shop. In the evening, when the shop was closing slave girls, in their brief tunics and collars, would come and kneel down, near the hinged opening to the open air counter. The baker, who was a kind hearted man, would sometimes come out and, from a flat sheet, throw them unsold pastries.' "
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 333

Peas :
These are mentioned as a menu item, but not described but peas are peas. "Marauders of Gor" p. 81
"I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 87

"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."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168
PEAS-
"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

Peaches
"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. These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot endure the absence of the masculine caress." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 27 - 28

Peppers : not described "Tribesmen of Gor" p. 47.
"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."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45

"I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted;"
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 - 48
"Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tharai 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."Tribesmen Of Gor page 46
Plums
"... I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums. Not even looking up, a woman had cried out, and, with a stick lashed out, protecting her merchandise...."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 45

"He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum."
Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 216
POTATO-
"...who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough. Outlaw of Gor page 155
Pumpkins
"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."
Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 233

Radishes : not described in detail "Marauders of Gor" p. 102.
"...and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties,..." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Raisins : not described.. but since there are grapes.. there are raisins. "Tribesmen of Gor" p. 37. "... 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;..."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47

"He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum."
Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 216

Ram-berry : small, succulent purple berries A small reddish fruit with edible seeds. "Captive of Gor" p. 207and 305
"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."Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 305

Redfruit : similar in flesh and taste to apples of earth origins

Rence : a water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The pith may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake. "Raiders of Gor" p. 7
"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..."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 7

"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 25

"In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 28

"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."
Book 6, Raiders Gor, page 44

Rice
"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. Earlier I had taken Yanina to the kitchen. There, under my supervision, on her chain, kneeling, she had cooked it. It was perhaps the first thing she had ever cooked. I had, too, once, later in the afternoon, taken her into a couple of rooms, where I had her tidy them up. It pleased me to see her, once the proud Lady Yanina, helplessly performing these small, domestic tasks. Being a slave is a whole way of life, involving a total modality of existence. There is a great deal more to it than simply serving a master on the furs. 'Eat,' I said to Flaminius, spooning some vulo and rice into his mouth. Then, in a bit, I took the bowl, the spoon in it, to where the girl lay. 'Kneel,' I said to her. 'Yes, Master,' she said. I then took bits of vulo from the bowl and held them out to the girl. I also put some rice in the palm of my hand, from which she took it. I heard Flaminius gasp in anger. 'Do you object' I asked. His slave, before him, was eating from the hand of another man. To be sure, we had all eaten earlier, as well. Then, however, I had had Yanina eat from a pan on the floor." Book 20, Players of Gor, pages 379 - 380

Salt ; "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."
"Tribesman of Gor" p. 238 also there are references to yellow salt as 'of the south' and on a table exist, but no other description has been found. "Assassin of Gor" p. 86

"On this fire, at the beginning of the feast the feast steward had scattered some grains of meal, some colored salt, some drops of wine. 'Ta-Sardar-Gor,' he had said, and this phrase had been repeated by the others in the room. 'To the Priest-Kings of Gor.'" Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 89

"...Near him in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt...."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 253

Sa-Tarna : (yellow bread) grain, specifically wheat, yellow, and since it is usually described as being cut in wedges, probably baked in a round flat pan. "Raiders of Gor" p. 114
"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."
Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 43

"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. " Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 76

I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 87

"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."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168

"There were great quantities of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread, in its rounded, six-part loaves."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114

"He removed his hand from the binding fiber. I reached out for him. He thrust a huge piece of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread into my hands. 'Eat,' he said." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 114

"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." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20

" 'I am very hungry, Masters.' I said. 'May I have something to eat?' 'Surely,' said the fellow who had carried me up the slope. 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 round, flat loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. Some smaller loaves are divided into four divisions. These divisions are a function, presumably, of their simplicity, the ease with which they may be made, the ease with which, even without expicit measurement, equalities may be produced. He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum. Twice he poured me water from a bag into a cup. He indicated the side of the cup from which I might drink. When a cup is shared masters and slaves do not drink from the same side of the cup." Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 216

"On the table was a bowl of cheap wine, some wedges of yellow bread and a wooden bowl containing vegetables and chunks of meat. "
Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, page 87

Sa-Tassna :
meat; food in general. Life Mother "Tarnsman of Gor" p. 43
"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."
Book 01, Tarnsman of Gor, pages 42

Sausages:
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks, numerous cannisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 271

Sea-sleen
In the polar seas there are black sleen, brown sleen, tusked sleen & flat-nosed sleen. Hunted by the red hunters.
"The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen. Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals. Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 36 ~¤~

"Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey. The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen. There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migration. Not all members of a species of sleen migrate. Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter an Ahn or so to breathe. This is done at breaks in the ice or at gnawed breathing holes."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 38

Shark
Hunted by the Red Hunters. "The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen. Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals. Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 36

Slave bread
"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. The beauty ate it eagerly. She had not known if she was to be fed that day. sometimes the slave is not fed. ."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 - 48

Slave porridge : a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel', and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish. "Assassin of Gor" p. 126

Sleen Stew
" 'Can you make a good sleen stew?' he asked. 'Yes, Master,' she said." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 427

Snails
"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.' "Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 77

Sorp :
a shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster; like an oyster.
"Nomads of Gor" p. 20 A shellfish, common in the Vosk River, similar to an oyster. This can be served in a variety of ways including raw, steamed, or smoked, or in a thick chowder. When serving raw, the mollusk should be placed within the half shell, which are seated on a bed of colored salt. When steamed or smoked, the same serving style can be used or the shelled mollusk can be served upon a platter lined with greens. The stew is served in the traditional footed clay bowl with handles and is meant to be drunk rather than spooned.. "Nomads of Gor" p. 20

Spices
A long-haired, spiral horned, Gorean mountain goat
"Kal-da is a hot drink, almost scalding, made of diluted ka-la-na wine, mixed with citrus juices and stinging spices." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 76

"...spices, colored table salts,..." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 57 - 58

"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks, numerous cannisters 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..."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 271 - 272

Squash
"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."
Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 233

Sugar :
2 varieties are commonly used, the White Sugar and the Yellow sugar.
"Tribesmen of Gor" p. 89
“She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt placing her tray upon the table. 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.
"Before them had been placed large golden dishes heaped with delicacies prepared by the kitchens of the Ubar, tall precious goblets filled with Turain wines, the small bowls of spices and sugars with their stirring spoons at hand. " Book 4, Nomands of Gor, page 253

"There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered... " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 267

"...trade item in the north. ... The southern sugars are also popular. I had originally supposed this was because of their sweetness, there being few sweet items, save some berries, in the north. I know began to suspect that the calories of the sugars also played their role in their popularity."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 206

"Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of topsit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars."
Book 15, Rogue of Gor, page 132

Sul :
starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried. "Raiders of Gor" p. 219
"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." Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 80
"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 starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant;...."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
"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."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168

"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219

Sullage :
a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy.
"Priest Kings of Gor" p. 44

Tabuk :
Swift gazelle like animals known for their sweet meat and speed, the Tabuk is generally served roasted. A Gorean, single horned antelope. The northen Tabuk is bigger than the southern, both are known for their single horn and sweet meat
"Outlaw of Gor" p. 76 and 126

"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. Usually they are killed from a distance, often from behind shields, with arrows."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 152

"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...."
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 76

Ta grapes :
purple fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos. It is used to make ta-wine, a thick and sweet supposedly white wine"Priest-Kings of Gor" p. 45

Tambur Gulf Oysters :
from the Tamber Gulf, these oysters are served raw or baked. "Captive of Gor" p. 301

Tarsk : porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail, often roasted whole. Wild boar of the forests it has six tusks
"Dancer of Gor" p. 106, 108 and 281

"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."
Book 2, Outlaw of gor, page 76
"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

"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44
"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."
Book 23, Renegades of Gor page 120
" 'And put bread over the fire,' I said., 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torain larma fruit."
Book 5, Assasin of Gor, page 107

Tarts
"I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes...things they will not trust their female slaves to buy."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 238

Tastas:
candy
He yelled something raucous and rubald. 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 the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten." ... "These candies are usually sold at such places as parks, beaches, and promenades, at carnivals, expositions and fairs, and at various types of popular events, such as plays, song dramas, races, games, and kaissa matches. They are popular even with children." ... "The expression was sometimes used by men for women such as we."
Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 81

Tumits :
a large carnivorous bird of the plains, is hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos the sport lies in wether you or the bird gets to eat that night. "Nomads of Gor" p. 2

Tospit :
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 eastern Cartius. They are bitter but edible, and are sometimes served sliced and sweetened with honey, and in syrups, and to flavor, with their juices, a variety of dishes. They are also carried on sea voyages to prevent nutritional deficiencies. They almost always have an odd number of seeds, except for the rare, long-stemmed ones. The Wagon People often bet on the number of seeds. It grows on bushes.Used to make wagers on odd or even seeds as well "Nomads of Gor" p. 59
"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. "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 59

"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."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 149

Turnip :
grown on the oasis of the Tahari "Tribesmen of Gor" p 37
" 'I have peas, and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut,' said the man"
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 29

"A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. ... various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, ...."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37

Tur-pah :
an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage. "Priest Kings of Gor" p. 45.

"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 curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees ...."
Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45

"...there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name; "
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 217 - 218

"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."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219
Vangis :
type of produce sold at market; detailed description unavailable. "Kajira of Gor" p. 314

Verr
A long-haired, spiral horned, Gorean mountain goat.
"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;..."
Book 10, Tribesman of Gor, page 47
"In the cafes, I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod." Tribesmen of Gor page 48

"The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk was very strong."
Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 60

Vulo :
a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs. "Nomads of Gor" p. 1 and 84
"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."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 1
"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo. I held the leg of the fried vulo toward one of the girls..."
Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 34
She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat." Nomads of Gor Page 1
"I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth..." Nomads of Gor, page 84

Whale
"The men of Torvaldsland had not sought the whales. They had meat enough. They had barely taken notice of them."
Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 78 ~¤~

"The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen. Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals. Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 36

Wingfish
Small blue fish is considered a delicacy, the livers are even more so.
"'Now this,' Saphrar the merchant was telling me, 'is the braised liver of the blue four-spired 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 the 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-spired 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 delicacy of delicacies."
Book 4, Nomads of Gor, pages 84 - 85


Meats
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." Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 120

Cooking Rack
She built up the fire. I watched her. She unfolded and adjusted a single-bar cooking rack, placing it over the fire. From this she suspended a kettle of water. The single bar, which may be loosened in its rings, and has a handle, may also function as a spit."
Book 23, Renegades of Gor, page 150

Cooking Rence in the Islands
"Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44

Ice
"My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally, food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course, does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury of ice in the summer."
Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 295

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."
Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 315

Iron Pan
"...a heavy iron pan, of the sort used out of doors across stones for cooking."
Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 213

Kitchen
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks, numerous cannisters 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..."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 271-272

Sharing a kettle with a Friend
" 'Alas,' said Pumpkin, 'we only have porridge.'
'To share the kettle of a friend,' I said, 'is to dine with a Ubar.'
'That too, is a Gorean saying, isn't it?' asked Pumpkin.
'Yes.' I said."
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 349

" 'I have bidden them welcome,' said Pumpkin. His voice was not pleasant. Radish, suddenly, frightened, backed away. I think she suddenly realized, perhaps for the first time, explicitly, in her life, what a man such as Pumpkin, with his power, and his will, might do. 'You are welcome,' said Pumpkin, turning to us.
'Thank you' I said.
'Tonight,' said Pumpkin, 'share our kettle.'
'That is a Gorean invitation,' I said."
Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 349


utensils
Using knives in the servery:
"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

Serving utensils:
"She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray upon the table. With a tiny spoon, it's tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 89

"With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate."
Guardsman of Gor, page 234

Eating utensils:
"I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the end of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia."
Nomads of Gor, page 84

"The horn spoon snapped in his hands, and he angrily threw the pieces into his bowl."
Assassin of Gor, page 120

Seems that slave girls mostly ate their gruel from troughs or from bowls, using their fingers.
"I shared breakfast with Elizabeth who informed me that it was better than the porridge below in the trough in the feeding room for female staff slaves,..."
Assassin of Gor, pages 106-107

This quote mentions the use of a ladle, and bowls...
"The slender blond girl, who had been giving men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bond-maids. She used a bronze ladle...The girls, including the slender blondish girl, emptied their bowls, even to licking them, that no grain be left..."
Marauders of Gor, pages 64-65


FOOD:
There are many types of food on Gor and all women, free and kajirae, learn how to prepare a variety of meals. Trained kajirae especially learn how to prepare intricate meals, many with an alleged aphrodisiac effect. "Sa-Tassna," that literally means "Life-Mother," is the general Gorean word for "meat" though it can also refer to "food" in general.
Fruits: These include such fruits similar to Earth fruits like apricots, berries, cherries, dates, grapes, melons, olives, yellow peach, yellow pear, plums, pomegranates, raisins, strawberries. The cherries of Tyros are famed. There is a yellowish, red-striped spherical variety of melon. The red olives of Tyros and the Torian olives are very popular. There are also fruits indigenous to Gor. These include larmas, ram-berries, Ta grapes, and tospits. 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 thus 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. Ram-berries are small, succulent reddish berries with edible seeds. It is like a tiny plum. The tospit is a yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum. It has a fairly hard-fleshed fruit and a bitter taste. 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. Seamen eat it to prevent against disease and is thus sometimes called seamen's larma. Ta grapes may have originated on the island of Cos though they are now grown in many areas. They may be the size of a tiny plum and are often peeled by slaves before eaten.
Vegetables: These include such vegetables similar to Earth ones like cabbage, carrot, corn, garlic, mushroom, onions, peas, peppers, pumpkins, radish, squash, and turnips. There are also vegetables indigenous to Gor such as katch, korts, suls and vangis. Katch is a foliated leaf vegetable, likely similar to lettuce, cabbage or spinach. The kort is a brown and thick-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable which is about six inches wide. The interior is yellow, fibrous and heavily seeded. It grows in the Tahari region and is often served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. Suls are a tuberous vegetable like a potato. They are large, thick-skinned, starchy, and yellow-fleshed. There are a thousand ways to prepare and serve suls. Vangis are an unknown type of produce. They are mentioned though never described in the novels.
Sa-Tarna: This is a yellow grain and the staple crop of much of Gor. There is a brown variety grown near and in the Tahari that has been specifically developed to withstand the hotter temperatures of that area. Most Sa-Tarna is now ground in mills. It is used to make the popular Sa-Tarna bread. This bread is baked in ovens and commonly made in round flat loaves. Larger loaves are commonly cut into eight pieces and small loaves into four pieces. The bread may be served with honey, melted cheese, melted butter or unmelted butter. 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.
Soups and Stews: These are very popular on Gor and come in a wide variety. One such soup is sullage made from Tur-pah leaves, suls, kes, and anything else around. Kes is a salty, blue secondary root of the Kes shrub. Stews with meat and vegetables are very common in low caste homes.
Porridge: 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.
Meats: 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. In taverns, cubes of meat may be cooked and served with a variety of sauces for dipping. 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. Its eggs are also eaten.
Seafood: There are many varieties of fish and shellfish eaten including carp, clams, oysters, eels, crayfish, grunts, shark, and parsits. The blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish is a tiny, delicate fish and is a great delicacy, especially its liver. The clustered, black tiny eggs of the white grunt are similar to caviar. In the equatorial waters, most of the fish are poisonous to eat due to certain seaweeds they eat which are harmless to them. The river fish though are generally good to eat.
Other foods: Butter and cheeses from verr, bosk and kaiila are common. Rice and beans are also common.
Wakapapi: This is a word in the languages of the Red Savages that means "pemmican." Pemmican is a word used by the Native Americans of Earth to describe a certain type of food, similar to the one on Gor. Pemmican are soft cakes, made in various ways depending on what one adds in the way of meat, herbs, seasonings and fruit. One common way on Gor is to take strips of dried kailiauk meat, thinly sliced, and pounded fine almost to a powder. Then you add crushed fruit, commonly chokeberries, to the meat. This is then mixed with kailiauk fat and then divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. It is normally carried by hunting or war parties.
Spices: There are 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.
Desserts: Desserts are very popular on Gor especially with kajirae. Chocolate, pudding, pastries with creams and custards, molasses, honey, hard candy, mint sticks, flavored, minced ices and nuts are all common. Sweetmeats are candied or crystalized fruits. There are at least four varieties of different sugars including white and yellow. Not all of the types of sugar are listed though so various other colored-sugars may exist. Red sugar is a real possibility. Tastas, also known as 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 are a common reward for kajirae whose diet is commonly rather bland.