Beans

Bosk~~large, shaggy, long-horned bovine similar to the Earth cow~~

serving tips: may be roasted, stewed, dried, broiled or sliced; oftentimes deep pit roasted with spices; may be garnished with slices of tospit and kalana; when served on a pit, the outside is very dark, inside is pink and juicy; served with suls and sa-tarna bread..

Bread~~black bread - baked soft and flavored from Gorean grains.. heavy and dark; satarna bread - flat, round, six-sectioned yellow bread made from Sa-Tarna grains; darker form is grown in the Tahari desert~~

serving tips: black bread is usually served with clotted bosk cream or honey; Sa-Tarna bread is rounded and marked into the 6 sections before baked and then is broke apart for serving served with butter.

Butter~~churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr~~

Candies~several varities; one kind are tastas or stick candies; they are round, succulent candies covered with a coating of syrup or fudge like a caramel apple, but much smaller; the candy is prepared and the stick is inserted through the bottom; another type are mint sticks~~

Cakes

Caviar~~served from a tiny golden cup adn a small golden spoon; come clustered, as tiny black eggs of the white grunt~~

Cheese~~pressed from the milk of the Bosk; sharp in taste and travel; resists moulds in their hard rinds; also from the milk of the verr, soft~~

serving tips: verr cheese mixed with herbs, chopped vegetables, or sweeteners

Cosian Wing fish~~tiny black saltwater fish found in the waters off Port Kar; this fish flies above the waters of Thassa for short distances, thus, giving it the name "wing fish"; in Turia, livers are considered a delicacy and are served in fried nuggets or as a pâté with small squares of sa-tarna toast; four poisonous dorsal fins; commonly served in the cities of Cos, Port Kar, and Thassa~~

Custards

Dates~~from the City of Tor; grown on the Oasis of Tahari~~

Eels~~long, thin fish of the sea

Eggs~~from the vulo; cooked the same as Earth chicken eggs except prepared in quantity~~

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FRUITS

Apricots

Berries

Celane Melon~~cantaloupe~~

serving tip: serve chilled in slices

Hard Larma/Pit Fruit~~firm, single-seeded apple-like fruit; called pit fruit because of the large single stone~~

Kalana~~this yellow skinned, yellow meated fruit is grown on the Ka-La-Na tree from the Plains of Ka-La-Na; similar to a pear; sweet and juicy; used for wines and garnishes~~

serving tips: used for wines and garnishes

Larma~~brittle shell with segmented, succulent fruit within~~

serving tip: sometimes served sliced and fried, with a browned-honey sauce; offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her Master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped

Olives~~commonly from the City of Tor; also Red Olives from the groves of Tyros~~

Peaches~~a peach offered to a Master is often a plea for slave rape~~

Plums

Raisins

Ram-berries ~~small, succulent, heavily seeded, reddish berries; either made into pies or jams, or eaten plain~~

serving tip: either made into pies or jams, or eaten plain; juices

Tospit~~a bitter, juicy citrus fruit; small yellow peach-like the size of a plum; two kinds - common and long stemmed~~

serving tips: juice of the tospit is mixed with other fruit juices for a citrus drink; used as a garnish in the drink kal-da; may be candied or cut up and dipped in honey; often described in the books as being the source of wagers, based on the number of seeds odd or even, or the number of odd seeds, since most tospits have an odd number of seeds

Ta Grapes~~purple fruit similar to Earth grapes; comes from the Isle of Cos; eaten as is, or made into a wine called Ta Wine~~

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Gant~~aquatic fowl similar to the duck; staple of the Rencers of the Vosk Delta

serving tip: eggs are frozen and eaten like apples

Green Insects~~edible insects~~

serving tip: please don't serve this

Honey~~collected from the hives of the meadows and forests

Mul Fungus~~bland, tasteless vegetable eaten by the slaves in the Nest of the Priest Kings~~

serving tip: please dont serve this

Nuts

Oysters ~~one kind are the Tamber Gulf oysters; served raw or baked~~

Parsit~~a silvery, slender, flaky fish having brown stripes and wing fish - tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia~~

serving tip: meat itself is normally added to bond maid gruel; may be roasted in a rence 'bag' topped with verr butter, herbs, and sliced red Tyros olives

Rence~~a water plant~~

serving tip: 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; Rence beer can also be made

Sa-Tarna~~interpreted to food or life daughter; golden-brown grain of Tahari where the shell is hardened to survive desert winds; staple of Gor; also used to make paga~~

serving tips: a round, yellow grained, flat 6 sectioned golden loaf made from the wheat-like sa-tarna grain; served on a platter, sliced or in chunks

Sa-Tassna~~life mother; meat; food in general~~

Slave Porridge/Satarna Gruel~~a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and boiled Sa-Tarna meal on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called "bond-maid gruel"; often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish; slaves prepare this in large kettles~~

serving tip: dont, cuz this isn't Torvaldsland

Sorp~~shellfish common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster; manufactures pearls~~

serving tips: can be served steamed, raw, smoked or in a thick fish stew or soup; serve raw, place them on a bed of colored salts on the half shell; serve steamed or smoked, served them on the same platter of colored salts or on a bed of greens; stew is served in the traditional footed clay bowls

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SPICES

Garlic

Nutmeg

Salt~~red, white, yellow~~

Sugar~~white, yellow~~

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Sullage~~a soup made mainly from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy; vegetable soup~~

Tabuk~~one-horned yellow antelope; swift gazelle like animals known for their sweet meat and speed; northern tabuk are larger and have a dangerous variety~~

serving tips: wrapped in rence cloths inside the cooler; generally served roasted or grilled

Tarsk~~porcupine animal akin to the Earth pig; ham, bacon, chops; having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail and 6 tusks~~

serving tips: not favored because it is a carrion eater; may be roasted and stuffed with suls and peppers; diet for rence growers

Tumits~~a large carnivorous bird of the southern plains; hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor; traditionally hunted with bolas; the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night; generally roasted~~

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VEGETABLES

Carrots

Katch~~leafy vegetable similar to cabbage~~

Kes~~shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage~~

Kort~~a rinded vegetable of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg~~

serving tip: serve sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg

Mushrooms

serving tip: stuff with tarsk sausages

Onions

Peas

Peppers

Radishes

Sul~~starchy, golden-brown, vegetable, principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried. It can also be distilled to make sul-paga~~

serving tip: often served sliced and fried; distilled to make sul-paga; sullage

Turnips

Tur-Pah~~an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage~~

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Verr~~a goat like animal raised for meat and milk~~

serving tip: wrapped in leaves, cooked in the ground to prevent meat from becoming stringy; wrapped in rence cloth inside cooler; roasted with slices of peppers and larma or grilled

Vulo~~a tawny-colored poultry bird similar to a pigeon; used for meat and eggs~~

serving tips: slaughtered and cooked on same day; cooked in quantity due to the small size (larger than a chicken, yet smaller than a turkey); the eggs are fried in a flat pan, also very small; brains of this bird are considered a delicacy

White Grunt~~large fish that feeds on parsit fish~~



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