Gorean Foods

• Black Bread: Baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk cream and/or honey.
• Bosk: large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served.
• Butter: Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.
• Cheese: Pressed from the milk of the Bosk they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds.
• Dates: These come from the City of Tor.
• Fish: many different varieties of fish are consumed. e.g. 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.
• Ka-la-na: is a sweet, juicy fruit - similar to a Pear.
• Kes: a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage.
• Kort: a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.
• Larma: succulent fruit, rather like an apple; sometimes sliced and fried, and served with 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: are commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also Red Olives which come from the groves of Tyros.
• Peas: These are mentioned as a menu item, but not described but pease are peas.
• Ram-berries: small, succulent purple berries.
• Redfruit : similar in flesh and taste to apples of earth origins
• Rence: 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.
• Sa-Tarna: grain, specifically wheat.
• Sa-Tarna Bread: Also known as Yellow Bread. It is a staple food in every Gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into six sections.
• Sa-Tassna: meat; food in general.
• Slave porridge: 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.
• Sorp: a shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster; like an oyster.
• Sugar: 2 varieties are commonly used, the White Sugar and the Yellow sugar. Yellow Sugar is made from fruits and the White Sugar from the juices of crushed cane stalks.
• Sul: starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried.
• Sullage: a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy.
• Tabuk: Swift gazelle like animals known for their sweet meat and speed, the Tabuk is generally served roasted.
• Ta grapes: fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos.
• Tamber Gulf Oysters: From the Tamber Gulf; these oysters are served raw or baked.
• Tarsk: porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane that runs down its spine to the base of the tail.
• Tospit: is a yellow small, peach-like fruit that is about the size of a plum. It is bitter, but edible. Often, they are dried and candied.
• Tumits: 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
• Tur-pah: an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage.
• Vulo: a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs.