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Apricot Fruit enjoyed in
the Tahari, and other places.
"I brushed away two
sellers of apricots and spices." Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45
Beans
Although not described, there is
mention of these being grown and eaten on Gor.
"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..."
Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
"...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
Black bread
This is a heavy, dark, yet soft bread
that is typically eaten with honey or clotted bosk cream.
"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
Bosk
These are the cattle of Gor. They are
a large, shaggy, long-horned bovine similar to the Earth yak or
buffalo. The meat is served much the same as Earth beef, in a variety
of ways including roasted, in stews, or dried.
"It is a huge
shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck, and long, shaggy hair. It
has wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen,
and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly
curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on
the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two
spears."
Nomads of Gor, pp. 4-5
"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
"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 Vulo's, pastries with creams and custards"
Beasts of Gor, p 20.
"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
Butter
This is made from the milk of the
bosk or verr. It is churned and kept in kegs.
"Olga,"
he said, "there is butter to be churning in the churning shed."
Marauders of Gor, p. 101
Carrots
"...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
Cheese
Made from bosk or verr milk, this is
a commonly eaten food on Gor. Bosk cheese, very strong in flavor, is
highly favored by travelers, as it travels well and is resilient to
mold due to its hard rind. One favorite way to eat it is melted, over
broken suls.
"In the cafes I had
feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a
metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; Vulo stew
with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a Kort with melted cheese and
nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine." Tribesmen of Gor, p. 48
"The 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
Cherries
"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,
p 28
Chokecherry
"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, 46
Cinnamon
"Do you smell it?" asked Ulafi. "Yes," I said. "It is cinnamon and cloves, is it
not?" "Yes," said Ulafi, "and other spices, as well." Explorers of Gor, p 98
Cloves
"Do you smell it?" asked Ulafi. "Yes," I said. "It is cinnamon and cloves, is it
not?" "Yes," said Ulafi, "and other spices, as well." Explorers of Gor, p 98
Corn
"Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist within their
domains, she said. The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil
and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to
live. They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or
corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash."
Savages of Gor, p 233
Cosian wingfish
A tiny blue salt-water fish with four
poisonous spines on its dorsal fin, it is also called the songfish
because of its whistling mating song. Found in the waters off Port
Kar, its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
"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 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, pp. 84-85
Dates
This fruit is a staple of the diet in
the Tahari. They are sold in a tef (a handful with the five fingers
closed); six such tefs comprise a tefa, and and five tefas make up a
huda. These are used as trade, in large compressed bricks.
"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
Eggs - vulo eggs
The eggs of several species of
animals are eaten on Gor. Arctic gant eggs are enjoyed frozen. Small
vulo eggs are often fried and served for breakfast. Tiny white grunt
eggs are served as a delicacy at banquets or feasts, similar to
caviar.
"Soon, I smelled the
frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan... 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, p. 73
"...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
"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..." Beasts of Gor, p 20
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan…" Slave Girl of Gor, p 73
"The arrogance of Kurii may yet prove their undoing," said Samos.
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."
Beasts
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
Flour
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters of flour,
sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments." Assassins of Gor,
p 271-272
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." Raiders of Gor, p 44
"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."
Garlic
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Outlaw of Gor, p 29
Honey
Eaten commonly throughout Gor.
Torvaldslander's use it to produce the highly potent drink, mead.
"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
"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."
Jerky
"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,
446
Kailiauk
"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
Kalana fruit
"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, p 8
"I'm hungry,' she said. 'I am, too,' I laughed, suddenly aware that I
had not eaten anything since the night before. I was ravenous. 'Over
there,' I said, 'are some Ka-la-na trees. Wait here and I'll gather
some fruit."
Tarnsman of Gor
Katch
A leafy vegetable.
"...a
foliated leaf vegetable called Katch"
Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
"...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
Kes shrub
A shrub that has salty, blue secondary roots. These 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, 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 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
Kort
A vegetable of the Tahari; it is often served sliced with melted
cheese and nutmeg.
"...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
"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded
on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with
raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg, hot Bazi
tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine." Tribesman of Gor, p 47
Larma
There are two kinds of larma. The first is a firm single-seeded
fruit, similar to an apple, which is called the pit fruit because of
its large single stone. The second has a hard shell which is brittle
and easily broken, with a fleshy interior that is very juicy and
delicious. It is sometimes served sliced and fried, with a browned
honey sauce. It is also a key ingredient in the making of kal-da. The
unsolicited offering of a larma, whether real or imagined, by a slave
to her Master, is a silent plea for her to be raped. Although, as a
side note, any fruit may be served sensually, often from a girl's
lips. For example, a girl might kneel in front of a Master, and then
lift one leg and point it straight behind her as she stretches forward
and offers the fruit from her lips.
"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. Once the shell has been broken through
or removed, irrevocably, there is, you see, exposed, soft, vulnerable,
juicy and helpless, the interior, in the fruit, the fleshy endocarp,
in the woman, the slave." Renegades of Gor, p. 437
"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray.
This is a firm, single-seeded apple like fruit. It is quite unlike the
segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, perhaps more aptly,
the pit fruit, because of its large single stone." Players of Gor, p. 267
"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, pp. 27-28
"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, p 19
"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, p 27
Melons
This fruit is enjoyed on Gor as well as on Earth.
"Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her,
lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me." Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45
"...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
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-enameled
cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl
of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our
fingers." Explorers of Gor, p 10
Mushrooms
"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
Nuts
"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
Grown in Tor and 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, 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
Onions
Common Gorean vegetable.
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Outlaw of Gor, p 29
"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded
on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with
raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg, hot Bazi
tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine." Tribesman of Gor, p 47
Oysters
Commonly found in the Vosk delta.
"Other girls had prepared the repast, which,
for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from
the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of
Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of
Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself."
Captive of Gor, p. 301
Parsit fish
A silvery fish having brown stripes, found in the waters of
Northern Gor.
"The men with the net drew it up. In it,
twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown, squirmed more
than a stone of parsit fish. They threw the net to the planking and,
with knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish." Marauders of Gor, p. 61
"The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber
and fishing. The slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks
north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and the
fall, betaken in great numbers." Marauders of Gor, p. 27
"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
Pasties
Treats especially enjoyed by slaves.
"On the tray were assorted pastries, on the
other was a variety of small, spiced custards." Guardsman of Gor, p. 239
Peas
Vegetable commonly enjoyed on Gor.
"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
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Outlaw of Gor, p 29
Pears
"She saw I was still watching her. In her hand there was a half of a yellow
Gorean pear, the remains of a half moon of verr cheese imbedded in it."
Explorers
"Suddenly her wrist was seized by the girl, a tall, lovely girl, some four inches
taller than she, in a brief white rag, who stood with her at the basket. “Who
are you?” demanded the girl in the white rag. “You are not one with us.” She
took the pear from her, with the verr cheese in it."
Explorers
Peppers
"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
Plum
"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, p 45
Pomegranate
"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,
p 11
Powdered Bosk Milk
"Yes, Master," she said. "May I mollify my beverage?"
"Yes," I said. I watched her as she mixed in a plentiful helping of powdered
bosk milk, and two of the assorted sugars. She then left the small, rounded
metal cup on the tray."
Guardsmen of Gor, p 296
Pumpkin
"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
Radishes
"...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
Raisins
"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded
on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with
raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg, hot Bazi
tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine." Tribesman of Gor, p 47
Ram-berries
"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
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." Players of
Gor, p 19
Red fruit
This is similar to an Earth apple, and is sometimes eaten with a
slice of bosk cheese.
Rence
This is a water plant similar to Earth rice. The grain may be
boiled and eaten, or ground and used as a paste to make a form of
pancake.
Salt
A common seasoning on Gor, found in red, white, and yellow
varieties. Both the white and red types are mined at Klima. (The red
coloration is due to the presence of ferrous oxide.) In Torvaldsland,
it is also made from sea water or by the burning of seaweed.
"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, p 186-187
Sa-Tarna bread
"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the
shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot."
Outlaw of Gor, p 76
"...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."
Kajira of Gor, p 216
Sa-Tassna
A generic term meaning meat, or food in general.
Slave porridge
A cold, unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal, on which
slaves are fed. Pieces of chopped parsit fish are sometimes mixed into
it. In Torvaldsland it is called 'bond-maid gruel,' and is often mixed
with pieces of chopped parsit fish.
"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
Sorp
A shellfish common in the Vosk River, similar to an oyster. It,
too, produces pearls.
"He sat upon a giant shell of the Vosk sorp, as on a
sort of throne, which for these people, I gather it was." Raiders of Gor, p 14
Spices
In addition to salt, many other spices and seasonings are used on
Gor.
"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," Tribesman of Gor, p 46
"...a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg." Tribesmen of Gor, p 48
Sugar
Goreans commonly used sugar to flavor foods and drinks. While it is
referred to in the books that various colors of sugar were used, the
only colors actually mentioned are yellow and white.
"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." Tribesmen of Gor, p 89
"Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling,
head down, served us our dessert, slices of tospit, sprinkled with
four Gorean sugars." Rogue of Gor, p 132
"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
Sul
A starchy, golden-brown, tuberous vegetable that resembles a cross
between an Earth potato and a tomato. It can be served in many
different ways, but is often served sliced and fried, and is the
principal ingredient in sullage.
"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 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, p 219
Sullage
A soup made primarily 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, p 45
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."
Savages of Gor, p 233
Tabuk
A kind of antelope, yellow with a single horn. Those found in the
south stand approximately ten hands at the shoulders; northern tabuks
are somewhat larger and faster. They are a favorite food of tarns.
When charging, a tabuk can be quite dangerous due to the size of its
horn.
"At the end of the wall, Inmak wept, seeing the
strewn fields of slaughtered tabuk. The fur and hide of the tabuk
provides the red hunters not only with clothing, but it can also be
used for blankets, sleeping bags and other articles. Too, they may be
used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light narrow hunting
canoes of skin from which sea mammals may besought. Lashings, harpoon
lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. Carved, the
bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles,
thimbles, chisels, wedges, and knives. It's fat and bone marrow can be
used as fuel. Too, almost all of the animal is edible."
Beasts of Gor, p 169-170
"But I reasoned on this night of all nights, this cold, depressing wet night, a
cup of Kal-da might go well indeed, Moreover, where there was Kal-da there
should be bread and meat. 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, p 76
Ta-grapes
Purple-colored grapes grown commonly in Turia and Cos, and used to
make wine.
"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 4
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
Tarsk
Animal similar to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane that runs
down its spine to the base of its tail. It is served much like pork. A
larger version, the giant tarsk, stands about ten hands high at the
shoulder.
"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, p 76
"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
"But I reasoned on this night of all nights, this cold, depressing wet night, a
cup of Kal-da might go well indeed, Moreover, where there was Kal-da there
should be bread and meat. 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."
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
Tasta (Stick candies)
These are made from soft, rounded, succulent candies, often covered
with syrup or fudge. They can also include mint sticks. They are
usually served at banquets or feasts. The word can also be used to
refer to slaves.
"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... 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."
Dancer of Gor, p 81
Tospit
A small, sour, citrus fruit. One of its uses is in the making of
kal-da. The common tospit almost always contains an odd number of
seeds, and the long-stemmed tospit usually contains an even number of
seeds. Masters sometimes bet on whether a fruit has an odd or even
number of seeds. It is also used in throwing games or quiva games,
sometimes being held by a slave in her mouth or on her head.
"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, p 149
"A boy passed, spitting out the seeds of a tospit.
The thought of Kamchak, of the Tuchuk's, 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, p 45
"....on the top of which was placed a dried tospit,
a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peach like 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, p 59
"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
"I do not care too much for tospits, as they are quite bitter. Some men like
them. They are commonly used, sliced and sweetened with honey, and in syrups,
and to flavor, with their juices, a variety of dishes. They are also excellent
in the prevention of nutritional deficiencies at sea, in long voyages,
containing, I expect, a great deal of vitamin C. They are sometimes called the
seaman’s larma. They are a fairly hard-fleshed fruit, and are not difficult to
dry and store. On the serpents they are carried in small barrels, usually kept,
with vegetables, under the overturned keel of the longboat."
Marauders
Tur-pah
This is an edible parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves that grows
on the Tur tree; it is an ingredient in sullage.
"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
"...the host of the parasite, Tur-Pah, one of the
ingredients of sullage. There was one large trunked, reddish Tur tree,
about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vine-like 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."
Nomads of Gor, p 217
Tumit
"I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless,
carnivorous
birds of the southern plains, was at hand." Nomads of Gor, p 331
Turnips
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Outlaw of Gor, p 29
"...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
"They supplement their diets by picking berries and digging wild turnips, said
the first lad." Blood Brothers of Gor, p 124
Vegetables
A large variety of vegetables are eaten on Gor. These include
carrots, turnips, radishes, peas, onions, garlic, kort, kes, and so
on.
"...and various root vegetables, such as turnips,
carrots, radishes."
Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my
hut."
Outlaw of Gor, p 29
Verr
Mountain goat found wild in the Voltai Mountains, it is agile and
has long spiraling horns. It is known for its bad disposition. The
verr can also be domesticated, and is kept for its wool, milk, cheese,
and meat.
"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 tawny-colored bird similar to an Earth pigeon. It is used for
meat, and its eggs are also eaten. Its brain is considered a delicacy.
"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."
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
"Well," said Samos, chewing on a vulo wing, "I am glad there are still some
women slave in Port Kar."
Raiders
"In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained by the
neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy sanded wood. Each was given a
yard of chain.
I smelled roast bosk cooking and fried vulo. It would be delicious. I thought no
more of the girls.
I must attend to matters of the ship.
I held the leg of fried vulo toward one of the girls."
Hunters
"Imnak!" I cried.
He, like Karjuk, was clad in boots and trousers. He, too, was stripped to the
waist. He, too, wore a headbafld, tying back his blue-black hair. Several heavy
gold necklaces were looped about his throat. He was chewing on a leg of roast
vulo."
Beasts
"It is a small dish," said the Lady Florence, "the white meat of roast vulos,
prepared in a sauce of spiced Sa-Tarna and Ta wine."
Fighting Slave
"There are none in the palace," said Ligurious. "Did Lady 'Sheila enjoy her
spiced vulo this evening?"
Kajira
"She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon
raised for eggs and meat." Nomads of Gor, p 1
"One of the girls, she toward whom I held the leg of fried vulo, reached her head
toward me, opening her delicate, white teeth to bite at it. I drew it away." Book 8 page 35
"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and
threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo
stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and
nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared, and, later, Turian wine." Tribesman of Gor, p 47
White Grunt - fish
"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
White Grunt eggs
"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." Fighting Slave of Gor, p 275-276
Yellow Gorean Bread
"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves,
fresh and hot." Outlaw of Gor, p 76
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