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
Breads
and grains
Rice
Not specified as being different from earth rice, there
is no mention of which part of Gor this cereal is grown
in.
I
went to the side and removed a bowl from its padded, insulating
wrap. Its contents were still warm. It was a mash of cooked
vulo and rice.
---Players of Gor
, 19:380
Sa-Tarna
Most commonly yellow grain that is a staple of Gor; it is
used to make bread as well as brewing paga. Note that
it is said a darker form of it is grown in the Tahari desert.
Economically,
the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which
was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental
caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain
called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.
---Tarnsman of Gor
, p 43
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, p 37
Yellow Gorean
bread (Sa-Tarna bread)
Yellow Gorean bread made from Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked
in round loaves and is a staple of most Gorean meals.
I
thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of
round, flat loaves, fresh and hot
---Outlaw of Gor
, p 76
Black bread
Presumably made of Sa-Tarna grain even though the actual
bread is described as black rather than the habitual yellow
Sa-Tarna loaf..
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
, p 13
Dairy
Butter
Made from the milk of the verr or bosk.
We
stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had
finished making a keg of butter.
---Marauders of Gor
, p 101
Cheese
Made from the milk of the bosk or verr.
...brought
the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives,
and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled
with melted bosk cheese.
---Assassin of Gor
, p 168
Eggs
Vulo 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
, p 73
Gant eggs: Red Hunters
of the polar cap, collect the eggs of the artic gant, which
nests on cliffs. They are eaten frozen, like an apple would
be.
I
stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two
baskets of eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. They
nest in the mountaim of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky
outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting
out of the tundra. The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological
relation to the Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen
they are eaten like apples.
---Beasts of Gor
, p 196
Fish
and seafood
Cosian Wingfish
A small blue fish of the waters of Cos whit poisonnous
spines, its liver is considered a delicacy.
Now
this, Saphrar the merchant was telling me, is the braised
liver of the blue, four-spines Cosian wingfish.
This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size
of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three
or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous;
it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for
brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through
the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which
seem to be immune to the poison of spines. This fish
is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as
a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females
thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling
sound.
The blue, four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters
of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to
sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy,
and its liver as the delicacies of delicacies.
---Nomads of Gor
, p 23
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
, p 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
, p 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 (slaves of the
North).
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, p 28
Snails
Would apear to be similar to Earth snails although perhaps,
as most things Gorean, larger. Size, however, is not clearly
mentioned.
Once
the Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop,
with her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown
overboard. Returning to me he held one of the snails, whose
shell he crushed between his fingers, and sucked out the
animal, chewing and swallowing it. He then threw the shell
fragments overboard. "They are edible," he said. "And we
use them for fish bait."
---Marauders of Gor
White Grunt
Another fish of the cold waters of the North.
Three
other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with
a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit
fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line,
baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large
game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit
fish.
---Marauders of Gor, p 59
Caviar on Gor
?
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
, pp 275-276
Fruit
and Vegetables
The reader will find
numerous references to fruit and vegetables, most described
as akin in one way or another, to Earth cousins. In most
cases, the nuances have to do with size, and color and the
earth name will be used. There are however, a number of
fruit and vegetables with Gorean names that offer no ressemblance
to the names used on Earth. In these cases, the author usually
gives a fair amount of detail on size, color, and uses comparisons/crosses
with Earth products for the reader's understanding. Note
that a few times, an item will be mentioned in passing without
description, presumably, although grown on Gor, and possibly
subject to adaptation via mutation, these would be fairly
identical to Earth products, the seeds of trees having been
brought to Gor through the early voyages of aquisitions.
Fruit
There is a ritual
tied into the offering of fruit, which is discussed in the
'Rituals of bondage'
section.
I
iddly 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, pp 27,
28
Apricot
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I
brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices.
---Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
Cherry
The Isles of Tyros, are mentioned as producing cherries.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
With
the tip of my tongue I touched her lips. Some slave cosmetics
are flavored. "Does Master enjoy my taste?" she
asked. "The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I
know," she said. "It reminds me of the cherries
of Tyros," I said.
---Beasts of Gor, 28:
Chokecherry
Mentioned in Blood Brothers of Gor
as one of the fruit used
in the making of pemmican. No specific 'Gorean' description
offered.
Crushed
fruit, usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat.
The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat,
subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish,
rounded cakes. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a
quick energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable,
long lasting stamina protein.
---Blood Brothers of Gor, 4:46
Date
From the city of Tor, they are said to be the same as earth
dates. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
The
principal export of the oases are dates and pressed-date
bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred
feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear
fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than a century.
A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean
weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty
Earth pounds.
---Tribesmen of Gor, 2:37
Ka-la-na
From the yellow kalana tree, it is used to make wine
and garnishes for drinks.
I
picked some Ka-la-na fruit and opened one of the packages
of rations. Talena returned and sat beside me on the grass.
I shared the food with her.
---Tarnsman of Gor, 8:
Larma
Norman offers descriptions that indicate there are two varieties
of this fruit, one simply called here, the 'hard' larma
or 'pit fruit', the other refered to as the 'juicy' larma.
He
then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it
with a sound that seemed partly crunching as he went through
the shell, partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented
endocarp.
---Nomads of Gor, 19:
I
took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm,
single-seeded applelike fruit. It is quite unlike
the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, perhaps
more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone.
---Players of Gor, p 267
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, p 437
Melon
There is mention of 'different varieties' although the
only description given is the following. Melons are mentioned
among the fruit which grow in the Schendi area, though there
is no indication that they are not part of other area gardens,
we also see them sold in a market in Tor.
Buy
melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of
the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 45
Nuts
Used among other things, in vulo stew. No specific 'Gorean'
description offered.
I
had returned late to the compartment. Mis Blake Allen, head
to the floor, knelt when I entered. In the cafes I had feasted
well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on
a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted;
vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with
melted cheese and nutmeg;hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later,
Turian wine.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 47
Olives
From the cities of Tor and Tyros, the latter producing
the red variety of olive.
the
food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives,
and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled
with melted bosk cheese.
---Assassin of Gor, p 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, p 114
Peach
No specific 'Gorean' description offered but for the fact
that the 'Gorean' peach is yellow.
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, pp 27-28
Plum
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I
was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle
stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums.
---Tribesmen of Gor, 2:45
Pomegranate
Orchards of pomegranate are found growing at the Oasis of
Red Rock.
"Pomegranate
orchards lie at the east of the oasis," I said. "Gardens
lie inward. There is even a pond, between two of the groves
of date palms."
---Tribesmen of Gor, 11:
Ram-berry
Small reddish fruit found in the wild.
A
guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our
leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit
with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small
seeds.
---Captive of Gor, p 305
Ta-grape
From the Isle of Cos, these plumb sized grapes ressemble
those of earth and are used to make Ta-wine, but may also
be eaten as is.
The
grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower
vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos
---Priest-Kings of Gor
, p 45
I
retrieved a grape about the size of a small plum from the
table before it could be cleared away. It was peeled and
pitted, doubtless laboriously by female slaves. It was a
Ta-Grape.
---Players of Gor, p 291
Tospit
Named for the large number of seeds it holds, this small
yellow peach-like fruit, about the size of a plum, is bitter
in taste though edible.
Tospit is also used as a target in some of the throwing
games of the Wagon People.
On
the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending
down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in
the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit,
a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about
the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches
of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western
Cartius. They are bitter but edible.
---Nomads of Gor, 8:
He
looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit
out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking
something like a peach, but about the size of a plum.
---Nomads of Gor, 12:149
The
common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds.
On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually
has an even number of seeds. Both fruits are indistinguishable
outwardly. I could see that, perhaps by accident, the tospit
which Kamchak had thrown me had had the stem twisted off.
It must be then, I surmised, the rare, long-stemmed tospit.
---Nomads of Gor, 12:149
Greens
(vegetables, plants, roots)
So many different
vegetables are mentioned here and there throughout the books
that it is almost safe to assume that in addition to the
vegetables that are unique to Gor, just about any vegetable
in one form or another is found on the counter earth.
Beans
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Carrot
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
...
most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber
suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable,
called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips,
carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties,
...
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Corn
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Many
of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist
within their domains, she said. The individuals in these
communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively
by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live.
They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and
wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.
Savages of Gor
, p 233
Garlic
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I
have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.
---Outlaw of Gor, p 29
Katch
...
a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Kes
A small shrub which grows in sandy soils. Its roots
are a main ingredient of Sullage.
The
principal ingredients of Sullage are..............and the
salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply
rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil.
---Priest Kings of Gor, p 45
Kort
A yellow fibrous vegetable usually served sliced with melted
cheese and nutmeg. The description is kort makes it sound
like it would belong to a squash family.
...and
korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped
vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior
of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Onion
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
At
the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted
to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and
beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons,
a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root
vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere
and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned,
thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six
inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous,
and heavily seeded.
---Tribesmen of Gor, 2:37
Peas
Tarl Cabot does refer to them as Gorean peas although no
specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I
have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.
---Outlaw of Gor, p 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, p 87
Pepper
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Some
of the peppers and spices, relished even by the children
of the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an
average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of the
mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 46
I
had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal
rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo
stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted
cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian
wine.
---Tribesmen of Gor p 47
Pumpkin and squash
Mentioned as grown at least in the Barrens area. No specific
'Gorean' description offered.
Many
of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist
within their domains, she said. The individuals in these
communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively
by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live.
They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and
wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.
Savages of Gor, p 233
Radish
Two varieties mentioned here, the 'sphere' and the 'cylinder'
varieties.
At
the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted
to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and
beans, berries, onion tuber suls, various sorts of melons,
a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root
vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere
and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned,
thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six
inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous,
and heavily seeded.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Sul
A root vegetable. Its description would make it quite
similar to the earth potato. It is also used
in the making of the Gorean peasant's liquor, Sul-Paga.
The
sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable.
It is very common on this world. There are a thousand ways
in which it is prepared. It is fed even to slaves. I had
had some at the house; narrow, cooked slices, smeared with
butter, sprinkled with salt, fed to me by hand.
---Dancer of Gor
, p 80
The
Tarn Keeper ... brought the food, bosk steak and yellow
bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy
Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese.
---Assassin of Gor, p 168
Turnip
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
They
supplement their diets by picking berries and digging wild
turnips, said the first lad.
---Blood Brothers of Gor, p 124
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.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Tur-Pah
A parasite plant of the Tur tree. Its leaves are red
and curly.
The
principal ingredients of Sullage are...........the curled,
red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated
in host orchards of Tur trees....
---Priest Kings of Gor, p 45
Meat
Sa-Tassna
in the Gorean language literally means 'life mother'.
It is synonymous with the word meat.
---Tarnsman of Gor, p 43
Bosk
Similar to earth's beef.
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, p 45
The
bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is
an ox like creature. It is a huge, shambling animal,
with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. Not only
does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish
the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover
the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and
sewn skin cover their bodies
---Nomads
of Gor, pp 4-5
Gant
Similar to the earthen duck, gant is a staple of the rence
people who inhabit the Delta of the Vosk.
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, p 4
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. Its meat is
a main staple of the Red Savages, and prepared in a variety
of ways, including dried in strips for jerky and the making
of pemmican.
"The
red savages depend for their very lives on the kailiauk"
said Kog. "He is the major source of their food and
life.His meat and hide, his bones and sinew, sustain them.
From him they derive not only food but clothing and shelter,
tools and weapons.
---Savages
of Gor, p 50
Strips
of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the
sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder. Crushed fruit,
usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat. The whole,
then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently,
usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes.
The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a quick energy food,
while the meat, of course, supplies valuable, long lasting
stamina protein. This, like the dried meat, or jerky, from
which it is made, can be eaten either raw or cooked. It
is not uncommon for both to be carried in hunting or on
war parties. Children will also carry it in their play.
The thin slicing of the meat not only abets its preservation,
effected by time, the wind and sun, but makes it impractical
for flies to lay their eggs in it. Jerky and pemmican, which
is usually eaten cooked in the villages, is generally boiled.
In these days a trade pot or kettle is normally used. In
the old days it was prepared by stone-boiling.
---Blood Brothers of Gor, 4:46
Tabuk ...
One horned berry eating antelope known for the sweetness
of its meat. Note below, the differences between the Northern
tabuk and his more Southern cousin.
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, p 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, p 152
Tarsk ...
Akin to the earthen pig, a staple in the diet of rence growers.
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, p 44
if
I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six
tusked wild boar of Gor’s temperate forests.
---Assassin
of Gor, p 87
Tumit ...
Large carnivorous flightless bird of the southern plains,
hunted and eaten by the Wagon People.
I
gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless,
carnivourous birds of the southern plains, was at hand
---Nomads of Gor, p 331
Verr ...
A herd mammal that ressembles the earthen goats. It
is raised also for consumption of its milk, used to make
cheeses and butter.
In
the cafes, I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut
in chunks and threaded on a metal rod
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 48
Vulo ...
A pigeon like bird from which Goreans obtain small eggs.
The bird itself is also eaten much like chicken would be.
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, p 1
It
is the spiced brain of the Turian vulo, Saphrar explained.
I shot the spiced brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden
eating prong
---Nomads
of Gor, p 83
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, p 81
Honey
No specific 'Gorean' description offered, it is mentioned
both in far North and far South areas of Gor.
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, p 81
Mint Sticks
On
the tray too, was the metal vessel which contained black
wine, steaming and bitter from far Thentis, famed for its
tarn flocks, the small yellow-enamled cups from which we
had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny
bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on
which we had wiped our fingers.
---Explorers of Gor
, p 10
Mushrooms
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I
was particularly fond of stuffed mushrooms. "What are
they stuffed with?" I asked Hurtha. "Sausage."
he said. "Tarsk?" I asked. "Of course."
he said.
---Mercenaries of Gor
, p 83
Pastries
Mentioned on numerous occasion as simply 'pastries', the
usual qualities found in Earth made pastries are pretty
much used as descriptives.
Salt
White salt from the mines of Klima, or the red salt of Kasra,
also from the Tahari desert which is the source of most
salt on Gor with the exception of the Torvaldslanders who
gather it from the sea. Salt on Gor, comes in various colors
among which white, yellow and red are mentioned.
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, p 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, pp 186-187
It
had been expected, I gathered, that I would sit at one of
the two long side tables, and perhaps even below the bowls
of red and yellow salt which divided these tables. The table
of Cernus itself, of course, was regarded as being above
the bowls.
---Assassin
of Gor, p 89
Spices
"Do
you smell it?" asked Ulafi. "Yes," I said.
"It is cinnamon and cloves, is it not?" "Yes,"
said Ulafi, "and other spices, as well."
---Explorers of Gor p 98
Sugar
There is mention on many occasions of colored sugar though
the only two actually described are the white and yellow
'Turian' sugar.
There
was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in
cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar ...
---Nomads of Gor, 23
With
a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in
diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six
of yellow in the cup
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 89
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, p 132
Smorgasborg
... odds and ends
Pemmican
High energy food mixture of the Red Savages, made mainly
of dried kailiauk meat and fruit.
'Wakapapi,'
said Cuwignaka to me. This is the Kaiila word for pemmican.
A soft cake of this substance was pressed into my hands.
I crumbled it. In the winter, of course, such cakes can
be frozen solid. One then breaks them into smaller pieces,
warms them in one's hands and mouth, and eats them bit by
bit. I lifted the crumbled pemmican to my mouth and ate
of it. There are various ways in which pemmican may be prepared,
depending primarily on what one adds to the mixture, in
the way of herbs, seasonings and fruit. A common way of
preparing it is as follows. Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly
sliced and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded fine,
almost to a powder. Crushed fruit, usually chokecherries,
is then added to the meat. The whole, then, is mixed with,
and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being
divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. The fruit sugars
make this, in its way, a quick energy food, while the meat,
of course, supplies valuable, long lasting stamina protein.
This, like the dried meat, or jerky, from which it is made,
can be eaten either raw or cooked. It is not uncommon for
both to be carried in hunting or on war parties. Children
will also carry it in their play. The thin slicing of the
meat not only abets its preservation, effected by time,
the wind and sun, but makes it impractical for flies to
lay their eggs in it. Jerky and pemmican, which is usually
eaten cooked in the villages, is generally boiled. In these
days a trade pot or kettle is normally used. In the old
days it was prepared by stone-boiling.
---Blood Brothers of Gor, 4:46
Popsicles?? ...
The
High Initiate had risen to his feet and accepted a goblet
from another Initiate, probably containing minced flavored
ices, for the day was warm.
Free
women, here and there, were delicately putting tidbits beneath
their veils. Some even lifted their veils somewhat to drink
of the flavored ices. Some low-caste free women drank through
their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on
the rep-cloth.
---Assassin of Gor, p 141
Rence paste and
cakes ...
Rence is a plant of the marshes of the Vosk's Delta.
The plant is mainly used in the production of paper for
trade, but to rencers, rence has unlimited other uses, including
food. The pith of the rence plant, (center of the stem)
is made into a paste, fried into cakes and used in the making
of rence beer.
I
had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays
of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks,
and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times
replenished, of rence beer.
---Raiders of Gor, p 44
Slave gruel
...
A mixture of Sa-Tarna grain, suplements, scraps and water
fed to slaves. In Torvaldsland, raw pieces of parsit
fish are added to the gruel, in other areas it is easy to
imagine whatever was the local staple would be part of this
slave 'porridge'..
The
bond-maids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened,
mud-like Sa-Tarna meal; with raw fish.
---Marauders of Gor, p 65
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, p 45