Agisti (Food) of Yellow Knives

Food staples (Gorean term = sa tassna. Yellow Knives = agisti) ...of the Tribe are stored in the servery and chillery...grown in our own gardens and fruit orchards on the river banks (the only place at all, that trees are found in the Barrens) or raised and transported to camp by the waniyanpi (the sames) - they are tame cattle - joint tribally owned slaves that live in walled enclaves and produce what Red Savage Tribes needs in the way of all food stuffs.

"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. They are also to furnish labor when required and may be drawn upon at the whim of their masters, for individual slaves. When one is taken from the enclosure one ceases to be Waniyanpi and becomes a common slave, an ordinary slave one owned by an individual master." Savages of Gor 233

Other items not produced in the barrens are traded for with local traders/wopeton.

Slaves eat the same diet as the Free...not just slave gruel- they may not eat without permission except at set slave feeding times but then they eat leftovers from food prepared daily.

Scraps and leftovers are fed to the different animals kept to supply the Tribe with fresh meat milk or eggs.

Foods are listed in groups, then alphabetically in the following manner. Item (origin...Earthen or Gorean or YK only) description as necessary and where it is kept and how served ie vessal, color or tempature etc.

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Meat Fish and Fowl

These items are kept in the smokehouse or chillery...often freshly butchered from the days hunt. Prepared much as their earthen counterparts, Yellow Knives always has a roast of Kailiauk ready over an open spit and meals are prepared by tribal inahan (slaves) to be served communal style or as a Free demands

Kailiauk (Gorean think of buffalo or lean beef) The main item served in Yellow Knives Quote
Bosk (Gorean think of beef )- small herd of milk animals is kept to supply the tribe with fresh milk butter and cheese - milked twice daily Quote
Pemmican - Wakapapi (Yellow Knives)- a combination of herbs seasonings fruit and kailiauk meat bound with kailiauk fat and made into small flattish rounded cakes. Served as is or crumbled into porrige soups and stews. Quote
Tabuk (Gorean) numerous on the Barrens hunted and brought in fresh.A one horned yellowish antelope- meat is most often grilled Quote
Tarsk (Gorean) similar to a pig, ham, bacon or chops. One way to prepare it, is to stuff it with suls and peppers. Quote
Verr (Gorean) a goat-like animal. The meat can be roasted or grilled. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. Verr can be steamed in the ground wrapped in leaves for the whole day...then it is not bitter or stringy. Quote

Gant (Gorean) similar to duck Quote
Tumit (Gorean) a large carnivorous bird of the plains. It is hunted and eaten by nomadic people of Gor. Quote
Vulo (Gorean) a small pigeon-like bird that can be cooked and eaten. Has very small eggs. Use multiple birds or eggs to make a meal.Quote

Bints (Gorean) a fanged, carnivorous, freshwater marsh eel which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi. Quote
Cosian Wingfish (Gorean) Its liver is considered a delicacy. Quote
Gulf Oysters (Gorean) similar in all ways to earthen oysters...a delicacy of the waters Quote
Parsit Fish (Gorean) slender striped fish suggest storing and serving same as sardines Quote
River Shark (Gorean similar to earthen shark) live in the marshes, fiver shark is served as filets or steaks. Quote
Salt Thassa Fish (Gorean) is just that, a small fish from the gleaming Thassa, served baked or broiled
Tamber Gulf Oysters from the Tamber Gulf, (Gorean) these oysters are served raw or baked. Quote

Vosk carp (Gorean) from the river Vosk. it is served baked, fried, or broiled.
Vosk Sorp (Gorean) is a shellfish think of oysters. Like oyster, it manufactures pearls. It is often used in making soups and stews. Quote
White Grunt (Gorean) white fleshed fish think of flounder. White Grunt eggs served same as caviar Quote

Fruit

Fruits - ALL are stored in baskets in the servery or even the chillery unless otherwise noted , principally they are served raw, cooked, juiced, and may be made into preserves which are stored on servery shelves in wax sealed clay containers.

Apricots (Earth org) sweet fruit with a pit Quote
Berries (earth and Gorean) blueberries, ramberries Quote
Chokecherries (Yellow Knives) wild cherries tart even when ripe. Also used in making pemmican. Quote
Dates (Earth) small sticky sweet brown fruits - kept in metal tin on servery shelves - served raw or used in cooking Quote
Larma (Gorean) hard larma (firm like an apple with a single seed) and ...soft larma (juicy and has segments like an orange) NOTE served raw by a slave girl to a Master is a hint to Him she wishes slave rape ie useage by Him. NOTE sometimes is traditionally cooked in a brown butter and honey sauce Quote
Kalana (Gorean) juicy fruit from the golden kalana tree..grainy and sweet think of pears, fermented into kalana wine and served as well as any other fruit.
Melons (Earth and Gorean) many varieties Quote
Nuts (Gorean) collected from the forests Quote
Peaches (Earth) soft deep yellow sweet fruit with single pit Quote
Plums (Earth) soft deep red to gold sweet fruit with a single pit Quote
Raisins (Earth) made from Ta Grapes Quote
Red Fruit (Gorean) similar in shape texture and flavour to an Earth apple Ta Grapes (Earth and Gorean) small rounded fruit sweet bunches on a vine...also fermented into wine as well as served in reg ways Quote
Tospit (Gorean) plum sized fruit think of a tangerine - bitter though still edible - often dried or candied Quote

Vegetables

Items are picked fresh daily from gardens at the Kaiila river banks or delivered from the waniyanpi enclaves. They may be stored in baskets about the servery or chillery as required. Extra corn is dried and ground into meal and used for baking.

Beans (Earth) many varieties Quote
Cabbage (Earth) leafy headed vegetable Quote
Carrot (Earth) sweet orange root vegetable Quote
Corn (Earth) starchy sweet vegetable of Red Savages...Wagmeza Wagmu maize or corn. Quote
Garlic (Earth) pungent flavorful root vegetable Quote
Katch (Gorean) foliated leaf vegetable Quote
Kes (Gorean) roots of kes bush..salty and blue...principle ingredient in sullage Quote
Kort A large, brownish, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width. The flesh of which is yellowish, fibrous, and heavily seeded. Served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg, a fruit of the Tahari. Quote
Mul Fungus (Gorean) bland whitish fibrous vegetable like with almost no taste (think tofu perhaps) Quote
Mushrooms (Gorean Earth) fungus of diff varieties and degrees of taste. Quote
Olives Red or Torian (Earth) Red olives are from the groves of Tyros and if from the city of Tor they are known as Torian olives. Quote
Onions (Earth) pungent root vegetable Quote
Peas (Gorean) green sweet starchy vegetable Quote
Peppers (Earth) green crisp vegetable from sweet to hot in flavour Quote Pumpkins (Earth) sweet orange fleshed squash Quote
Radishes (Earth) bitter hot root vegetable Quote
Rence pith from stem and seeds made into paste or porridge think grits or rice Quote
Squash (Earth) varius types of fleshy starchy vegetable Quote
Suls root vegetable think potatoe - starchy and bland and served in many ways. Tis distilled into the drink sul paga. Quote
Turnips (Earth) starchy root vegetable Quote
Turpah (Gorean) an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves that grows on the Tur tree. Quote

Baking

Flours of sa-tarna and rence or the whole grains are used to make many items ie pastas breads, sa-tarna bread, black bread, corn bread is made daily along with various pastries pies or cakes...fresh and preserved fruits or vegetables used as needed along with sugars nuts honey chocolate creams butters and cheeses. The baking ovens are to the side of the servery along with racks to store the items while cooling and a large work table.

Flour making - ground with the use of the grain quern/a morter and pestle. Quote
Black bread (Gorean) baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains. It is heavy and dark in color and served with clotted bosk cream or honey. Quote
Candy various hard and soft candies, example tastas (Gorean Earth) Quote
Chocolate (Earth) beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth. Quote
Cinnamon (Earth) sweet aromatic spice from nuts.
Honey (Earth) thick golden sweet syrup Quote
Licorice (Earth) aromatic flavouring from roots Quote
Mint (Earth) fresh green leafy herb Quote
Nutmeg (Earth) aromatic sweet spice from nuts Quote
Salt (Gorean Earth) Quote
Sa-Tarna (Gorean)- a grain, like wheat, yellow in color, brewed into paga and it is also ground and used to bake the sa-tarna bread Quote
Sa-Tarna bread (Gorean)- also known as yellow bread, a staple food in every Gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, marked, before baking, into six sections. Quote
Sa-Tarna gruel (Gorean) a thick paste of boiled sa-tarna.A cold, unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal, with vegetables and shreds of meat added, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called "bond-maid gruel". Quote
Sullage (Gorean) - a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes along with whatever else may be handy Quote
Sugar (Gorean Earth) made from cane or fruit sugars ...grainy sweetener Quote
Spices (Gorean Earth) variety of spicey pungeont or sweet spices from various sources Quote
Rence grain(Gorean) boiled or ground into a paste and seeds ...think rice or grits, paste made into pancakes Quote

Dairy Products

A small herd of bosk and verr are kept and milked twice daily to supply the Tribe with fresh milk butter and cheese. Gant and vulo flocks roam free about the campground and river banks and roost overnight in a small brush leanto where fresh eggs may be gathered. All these items are stored in the chillery. Fresh cheese and aged is made from the milks and stored there as well.

Butter (Gorean) churned from bosk and verr milks Quote
Cheese (Gorean) poured and molded from bosk and verr milks, left to ripen in chillery or smokehouse Quote
Cream (Gorean) from bosk and verr milks Quote
Milk (Gorean) both from bosk think cows milk and verr think goats milk Quote
Vulo Gant eggs (Gorean) used alone or in cooking and baking gathered fresh daily Quote

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