in the listing Y/you can make Y/your choice:
Fighting fish, much like the piranha of Earth.
baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey. "The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of the oar." Hunters of Gor, page 13
Made from coffee beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the coffee of Earth. It is best served in the style of the desert; small cups, very hot, thick and sweet. It is grown on the slopes of Thentis. Blackwine is almost always served with a small bowl of cream and a bowl of sweet rocks, of which are yellow and white not red, with small spoons and brought to the Master. In serving, many times the Master will tell you how to fix the black wine, so there is no need for the bosk cream or sweet rocks to be brought back to Him. You may be asked to serve, 'blackwine, first slave' or 'blackwine, second slave'. This simply means with or without cream and sugars. This derives from having blackwine traditionally served by two slaves, the first of which usually adds the cream and sugars to the cups while the second slave pours the blackwine. Three wooden spoons are used, (three total one for each of the sugars and one for stirring.) Thus, blackwine served first slave is served with cream/milk and/or sugars (6 measures of white sugar and 4 measures of yellow are used, stirring after each spoon of sugar) second slave is commonly just served black, plain. There is some confusion as to how blackwine should and/or shouldn't be served, but, taking this directly from the books, this is how it is depicted and served in most establishments found there in. Blackwine is almost always served with a small bowl of cream and a bowl of sweet rocks, of which are yellow and white not red, with small spoons and brought to the Master/Mistress. In serving, many times the Master/Mistress will tell you how to fix the black wine, so there is no need for the bosk cream or sweet rocks to be brought back to Him/Her.
This animal closely resembles a buffalo or Yak of Earth, used for many things on Gor. Can be served roasted and sliced, or as steaks. The milk of the bosk is very drinkable and can be used to make cheese and churned for butter. *Another definition has it described as large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served. Large cow-like or buffalo sized creature, tasting like beef. Though similar in build to the Yak of earth the Bosk bears the heavier form of the buffalo of earth and like him, provides, food, leather and many of the needs of the people of Gor. The meat may be roasted or broiled, dried, stewed or served in a myriad of ways. Nomads of Gor. p 4 "The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an ox like creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skin cover their bodies" Nomads of Gor, pages 4-5
Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr. " Olga," he said, "there is butter to be churning in the churning shed." "Yes, my Jarl," said she, holding her skirt up, running from the place of our exercises." Marauders of Gor, page 101 "We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of butter." Marauders of Gor, page 101 "These females," she said, indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, "could be better employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter." Marauders of Gor, page 156
"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." p. 81, Dancer of Gor.
Pressed from the milk of the Bosk they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds. Can be made from the milk of the verr also "In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine." Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 "The Tarn Keeper...brought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese." Assassin of Gor, page 168
Called due to its ability to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. Its livers are considered a delicacy. The wingfish is a tiny (about the size of a tarn disc) blue salt-water fish with 3- 4 slender poisonous spines on its dorsal fin. Its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia. Nomads of Gor. p 84 "'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." Nomads of Gor, pages 84-85
Bosk and Verr cheese, butter and milk. Ice cream and yogurt.
These come from the City of Tor. "The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
"Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros." Raiders of Gor, page 114
Cooked and used like chicken eggs on Earth, these are from the vulo, and smaller than chicken eggs. "Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan..." Slave Girl of Gor, page 73 "Eta piled several of the hot, tiny eggs, earlier kept fresh in cool sand within the cave, on a plate, with heated yellow bread, for him." Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
EGGS OF THE WHITE GRUNT(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 thean 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."
many different varieties of fish are consumed. ex parsit - a silvery fish having brown stripes and wingfish - tiny blue saltwater fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia. "Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, page 59
There are flour like substances from the dark wheat they grind to make the blackbread and there is sa-tarna meal (rather the consistency of cornmeal) that we use for the nice yellow sa-tarna loaves we make and it can be crushed a bit more and create a nice flour consistency, also rence (like rice and white) can be ground down into a flour like substance that is very good for pancakes
Ramberries, Ta Grapes, Tospits, Larma, Kort, Dates, Kalana Fruit, Variety of Melons, Plums, Apricots, Gorean Peaches, and Raisens
"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine." Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 "I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried or butter made." Marauders of Gor, page 81
"..from a vendor, the Forkbeard bought his girls honey cake; with their fingers they ate it eagerly, crumbs at the side of their mouths." Marauders of Gor, page 144
"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, loat-hsome green insects which, in the Ka-la-na thicket, Ute had told we were edible. Indeed, she had eaten them. They are nourishing,' she had said." Captive of Gor, page 315
Fruit that makes a very potent dry wine or sweet red wine grows on a tree with very strong yellow wood. "Lastly, as the culmination of Ar's Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar's family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The member of the Ubar's family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guars of the Home Stone resume their vigil." Tarnsman of Gor, page 68
A foliated leaf vegetable. Often grown by the people of the Tahari Desert. Similar to lettuce. quotes in Tribesmen of Gor. p 37 "a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch" Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage. "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, ...the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil." Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
a rind vegetable of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. A large brownish-skinned, thick skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six to eight inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous and heavily seeded, served with melted cheese over the top. (similar to honeydew)"and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year." Tribesman of Gor page 37
Succulent fruit, rather like an apple. A sweet fruit. It is served sliced, either fresh or fried, and served with browned honey sauce. The act of offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her Master(when he not specifically requested one) is often regarded as a silent plea by a slave when they wish to be "used" by that Master or Mistress sexually. "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, and 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. 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." Renegades of Gor. p 437
Aquatic fowl; small, web-footed, horned. Hunted by Marsh girls and/or Rencers for food "I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of Rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks." Raiders of Gor, page 4 "The cries of the marsh gants were about us now. I saw that her hunting had been successful. There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft." Raiders of Gor, page 10 "...poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks,..." Raiders of Gor, page 41 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders Gor, page 44
Bosk, Tarsk, Vulo, Fish, Larl(leopard like creature), Tabuk, Shark, Tamber, Gulf Oysters, Verr(goat) and Beans.
Are quoted in the Tribesman book of gor, as being in existence in many varieties. "Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me." Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
Long sticks of mint flavored candy. "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-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, page 10
Eaten by the Muls (slaves) in the Nest of the Priest Kings. Bland and tasteless, fibrous sort of matter. "It is not hard to get used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no taste, being and extremely bland, pale, whitish, vegetablelike matter." Priest Kings of Gor, page 109
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Tribesmen of Gor, page 47
are commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also Red Olives which come from the groves of Tyros. "The Tarn Keeper...brought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese." Assassin of Gor, page 168
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Tribesmen of Gor, page 47
"Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk,..." Captive of Gor, page 301
Slender silver fish with brown stripes, put into the slave gruel (bond-maid) gruel in Torvoldsland. Also salted and exported to the south. "The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands. Trade to the south, of course is largely in furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, page 28 "Tomorrow night," said Ivar Forkbeard to her, " I shall have your ransom money." She did not deign to speak to him, but looked away. Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, page 56 "The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. Another of the bond-maids was then freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish." Marauders of Gor, pages 63-64
"On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards." Guardsman of Gor, page 239 "I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes-things they will not trust their female slaves to buy." Nomads of Gor, page 238
Slightly smaller than the earth variety but just as sweet. Can be dried for long journeys and made into pies or tarts. "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... 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, pages 27-28
"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
Quoted in Blood Brothers of Gor Pg 268 as being in existence
"I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums." page 45, Tribesman
"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
small, succulent purple berries. They are tiny, bittersweet, but edible. Often they are dried and made into pies. "A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small seeds." Captive of Gor, page 305
These come from the groves of Tyros. "Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros." Raiders of Gor, page 114
A water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake. Like rice. The pith (or center of the stem) is edible it is made into a paste or porridges, or made into rence beer and drank from flagons. "The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper...from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further it's pith is edible..." Raiders of Gor, page 7 "In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste." Raiders of Gor, page 28 "In a moment the woman had returned with a double handful of wet rence paste. When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds." Raiders of Gor, page 25 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders Gor, page 44
In Torvaldsland, salt is obtained from seawater or from the burning of seaweed. In the south salt is found above or below ground. White salt comes from the areas around Klima, though there are mines that produce red salt, red from ferrous oxide in its composition, called the Red Salt of Kasra. "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." Page 238, Tribesmen of Gor "salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or the burning of seaweed. It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids. the red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland" Marauders of Gor, pages 186-187 "...Near him in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt...." Nomads of Gor, page 253
A grain, specifically wheat yellow in color. It is a staple of Gor. It is brewed into paga. It is also ground and used to bake the sa-tarna Bread that is a staple food at every gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into six sections. "At the oasis will be grown a hybrid of brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegatable, called Katch and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year. Larma and tospits are also grown at the oases, in small orchards. Some rep is grown, for cloth, but most cloth comes to the oasis from caravans." page 37, Tribesmen "Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter." Tarnsman of Gor, page 43
Meat; food in general. "Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother. Incidentally, when one speaks of food in general, one always speaks of Sa-Tassna." Tarnsman of Gor, pages 43-44
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. Durbar left. In a few moments he returned with a small wooden bowl filled with dried, precooked meal. He poured some water into this. I was then handed the bowl. "Mix it with your fingers," said the first man. I, mixing the water with the precooked meal, formed a sort of cold porridge or gruel. I then, with my fingers, and putting the bowl even to my lips, fell eagerly upon that thick, bland moist substance. Kajira of Gor. P 257 "We had been called from our cells well before dawn. Each of us had been forced to eat a large bowl of heavy slave gruel. We wouldn't be fed again until that night." Captive of Gor, page 208 "The bond-maids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mud-like Sa-Tarna meal; with raw fish." Marauders of Gor, page 65
A bi-valved shellfish...may be cooked or eaten raw. : a shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster; like an oyster, considered a delicacy.
Nutmeg, parsley, pepper, salt, savory spices and hot spices. The hot spices may be much like cayenne, curry, cloves, and oil of cinnamon. "I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that the people of the Tharai regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells. 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." page 46, Tribesman "..a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg." Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
2 varieties are commonly used in the books of gor, the white sugar and the yellow sugar. It is believed that the yellow sugar are made from the juices of crushed cane stalks. "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." page 89, Tribesman of Gor
A tuberous root, vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried. Starchy, with a bland flavor, golden brown, principal ingredient in sullage, often served sliced and fried. One way of serving is to break it open and fill it with melted bosk cheese, topped with soured bosk cream. Can be distilled into the drink called paga. "The sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable. It is very common on this world. There are a thousand ways in which it is prepared. It is fed even to slaves. I had had some at the house; narrow, cooked slices, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt, fed to me by hand." Dancer of Gor, page 80 "With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate." Guardsman of Gor, page 234 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Raiders of Gor, page 219
a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy. "First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, ... the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, ... and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub..." Priest Kings of Gor, page 45
In the south, the tabuk is a yellow, one-horned antelope-like animal, used for meat, hides, and the like. The northern tabuk is much larger, tawny colored, also used for meat and hides. The basic differences are explained below. Known for their sweet meat and speed, the Tabuk is generally served roasted or grilled, and served as steaks. "They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift; many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted antelope-like quadruped of the south. On the other hand, they too were distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. A charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous animal." Beasts of Gor, page 152 "my mouth watered for a tabuk steak..." Outlaw of Gor, page 76 "Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one of the one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-la-na thickets of Gor." Tarnsman of Gor, page 145
Fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos. Deep purple grapes grown from the terraces of Tor. Make excellent white wine, called ta-wine. "and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wines, thick and sweet, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos..." Tribesmen of Gor, page 213 "The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos..." Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45
The 6 tusked wild boar; it's meat is pork-like. Porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane, which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. This meat is roasted. One way to prepare it is stuffed with suls and peppers from the City of Tor. "if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests." Assassin of Gor, page 87 "Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans." Raiders of Gor, page 44 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders Gor, page 44 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Raiders of Gor, page 219 "I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests." Outlaw of gor, page76 The tarn was ready. It was within the cot, tearing at a piece of meat, a haunch of tarsk, hung from a rope. The rope was some two inches thick. The suspension of the meat reminded me of the way peasant women sometimes cook roasts, tying them on a cord and dangling them, before a fire, then spinning the meat from time to time. In this way, given the twisting and untwisting of the cord, the meat will cook rather evenly, for the most part untended, and without spit turning. Renegades of gor. page 120
A bitter, juicy citrus fruit. Used to make wagers on the number of seeds (odd or even, or the number of odd seeds, since most tospits have and odd number of seeds). The tospit is yellow in color. Small, peach-like fruit that is about the size of a plum. They are bitter, but edible. Often they are dried and candied. It is also used in both throwing games of skill with the knife. Due to its high vitamin C content it is used in the prevention of nutritional deficiencies at sea. Sometimes called the seaman's larma. "There was a great shouting, and, passing through the market gate, I had turned into the nest of market streets. I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. 'Come with me to the dave of Red Cages,'said a boy, pulling at my sleeve. They receive a copper tarsk for each patron they bring through the arched portal of the cafe. I gave the boy a copper tarsk, and he sped from me. I made my way carefully through the crowds. The vendors come early to the market, leaving their villages outside of Tor in the morning darkness, that they may find a yard of pavement, preferably near the market gate, to display their wares. 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. 'Buy mellons!' called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres towad me. A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit. The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, passed through my mind. I smiled. Only the rare, long stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds,on the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. Here, in Tor, however, with its two growing seasons, they might be available much earlier. Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds. Most tospits do. I would not, however, have been likely to wager on the matter with Kamchak of the Tuchuks. I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes." Tribesman of Gor page 45 "she had been carrying tospits and vegetables to the deck locker, to fill it." Marauders of Gor, page 289 "He looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking something like a peach, but about the size of a plum." Nomads of Gor, page 149 "The common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds. On the other hand, the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds." Nomads of Gor, page 149
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 whether you or the bird gets to eat that night. This meat is roasted and can be stuffed with peppers. A large flightless carnivorous bird, about the size of an ostrich, having an 18'-long hooked beak. It is often eaten by the Nomads of Gor. Nomads of Gor. p 2
An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage. Considered a vegetable. "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil." Priest Kings of Gor, page 45 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Raiders of Gor, page 219
All kinds of vegetables are mentioned in Tribesmen of Gor. various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, peppers, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties are quoted as being in existence. "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, page 37 "I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Outlaw of Gor, page 29
A goat-like animal. The meat can be roasted or stewed. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. To prepare Verr, it is steamed, by being placed in the ground, wrapped in leaves and slow cooked for 24 hours so as to take away its bitterness and stringy consistency. "In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine." page 37, Tribesman"
A tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon or chicken, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs. Delicious when roasted over burning embers. The very small eggs are cooked for the breakfast meal by frying them in a large, flat pan. Takes several birds or many eggs to make a meal. "vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey" Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 "It is the spiced brain of the Turian vulo," Saphrar was explaining. I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia. I took a large swallow of fierce Paga, washing it down as rapidly as possible." Nomads of Gor, page 8 "Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan" Slave Girl of Gor, page 73 "I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo...I held the leg of the fried vulo toward one of the girls..." Hunters of Gor, page 34
These are tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on their dorsal fin; found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia
Basic steps for a food serve that one can use for most all the foods
"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 ticks of glowing charcoal, aside from this, the light in the room came from one small thalarion oil lamp hanging from the ceiling." Assassin of Gor, pages 271-272
