Breads Sa-tarna or yellow bread, Black Bread and Slave Bread

Bread - General - Tarl Cabot orders breakfast - " 'And put bread over the fire,' I said., 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torain larma fruit." Book 5, Assasin of Gor, page 107 ~才 "There was a flash of slave bells at my side and a darkhaired, yellow-silked girl, a paga girl, knelt beside us, where we sat cross-legged behind the small table. 'Paga, Masters?' 'For three,' said I, expansively. 'And bring bread and bosk, and grapes.' 'Yes, Master.' " Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 46 ~才

Black Bread "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." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 13

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Sa-tarna Yellow Bread "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, Outlaw of Gor, page 76 "...there was the inevitable flat, rounded loaf of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread." Book 3, Priest Kings of Gor, page 45 ~才 "I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 87 ~才 "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." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168 ~才 "There were great quantities of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread, in its rounded, six-part loaves." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114 "He removed his hand from the binding fiber. I reached out for him. He thrust a huge piece of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread into my hands. 'Eat,' he said." Book 7, Captive of Gor, page 114 ~才 "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." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20 ~才 " 'I am very hungry, Masters.' I said. 'May I have something to eat?' 'Surely,' said the fellow who had carried me up the slope. Then, while the other fellow took his place on the wagon box and started the ponderous draft beast into motion, 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. These divisions are a function, presumably, of their simplicity, the ease with which they may be made, the ease with which, even without expicit measurement, equalities may be produced. He also gave me a slice of dried larma, some raisins and a plum. Twice he poured me water from a bag into a cup. He indicated the side of the cup from which I might drink. When a cup is shared masters and slaves do not drink from the same side of the cup." Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 216 "On the table was a bowl of cheap wine, some wedges of yellow bread and a wooden bowl containing vegetables and chunks of meat. " Book 14, Fighting Slave of Gor, page 87 ~才

Slave Bread "I did not forget the slave of course. Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards before her. It was slave bread, rough and coarse-grained. The beauty ate it eagerly. She had not known if she was to be fed that day. sometimes the slave is not fed. ." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 - 48 ~才

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Flours

- in a kitchen - "There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks, numerous cannisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments...." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 271 - 272 ~才

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Rence

"The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper. The root, which is woody and heavy, is used for certain wooden tools and utensils, which can be carved from it; also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; 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, and for the rence growers is, with fish, a staple in their diet; the pith is edible both raw and cooked; some men, lost in the delta, not knowing the pith edible, have died of starvation the the midst of what was, had they known it, an almost endless abundance of food. The pith is also used, upon occasion, as a caulking for boat seams, but tow and pitch, covered with tar or grease, are generally used." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 7 "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." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 25 "In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 28 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Book 6, Raiders Gor, page 44

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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. Earlier I had taken Yanina to the kitchen. There, under my supervision, on her chain, kneeling, she had cooked it. It was perhaps the first thing she had ever cooked. I had, too, once, later in the afternoon, taken her into a couple of rooms, where I had her tidy them up. It pleased me to see her, once the proud Lady Yanina, helplessly performing these small, domestic tasks. Being a slave is a whole way of life, involving a total modality of existence. There is a great deal more to it than simply serving a master on the furs. 'Eat,' I said to Flaminius, spooning some vulo and rice into his mouth. Then, in a bit, I took the bowl, the spoon in it, to where the girl lay. 'Kneel,' I said to her. 'Yes, Master,' she said. I then took bits of vulo from the bowl and held them out to the girl. I also put some rice in the palm of my hand, from which she took it. I heard Flaminius gasp in anger. 'Do you object' I asked. His slave, before him, was eating from the hand of another man. To be sure, we had all eaten earlier, as well. Then, however, I had had Yanina eat from a pan on the floor." Book 20, Players of Gor, pages 379 - 380

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Sa-tarna

"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." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 43 "Incidentally, when one speaks of food in general, one always speaks of Sa-Tassna. The expression for the yellow grain seems to be a secondary expression, derivative. This would seem to indicate that a hunting economy underlay or was prior to the agricultural economy. This would be the normal supposition in any case, but what intrigued me here, perhaps for no sufficient reason, was the complex nature of the expressions involved. This suggested to me that perhaps a well-developed language or mode of conceptual thought existed prior to the primitive hunting groups that must have flourished long ago on the planet. People had come, or had been brought to Gor possibly, with a fully developed language. I wondered at the possible antiquity of the Voyages of Acquisition I had heard my father speak of. I had been the object of one such voyage, he, apparently, of another." Book 1, Tarnsman of Gor, page 44 "I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries,..." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 10 ~才 --In the North-- "...fields, fenced with rocks, in the sloping area. In them were growing, small at this season, shafts of Sa-Tarna;..." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 98 ~才 "At the oasis will be grown a hybrid of brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow;" Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 ~才

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