Vegetables


All kinds of vegetables are mentioned in Tribesmen of Gor. With the wide variety, it is likely that most vegetables with which we are familiar are available in some form on Gor, though the vegetables which have a close Gorean relative may have been incompatible with Gorean climate, and may have evolved into the Gorean equivalent...ie, suls and potatoes.



Beans

"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, berries, onion 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, and korts, 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 (pg 37)

Beans can be added to stews, or served on vegetable plates with dips in a variety of types, combined with other vegetables. Beans may also be served steamed, with bosk butter or light cream sauces. The Earth spice, nutmeg, in a light white sauce makes a wonderful accompaniment to beans.


Katch

"a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch" Tribesmen of Gor (pg 37)

This is most likely a spinich or chard-like vegetable. Steam or prepare in a crust with milk, cheese and egg.


Kes

"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 (pg 45)

Kes is an excellent salt and seasoning replacement, though uncommon in the north, as it prefers a sandy, dry soil. It is not commonly found in Torvaldsland cooking.


Kort

"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 (pg 37)

Kort seems almost squash like. Slice it, seed it and fry it or bake it. It is exceptional served with cheese melted and nutmeg sprinkled atop.


Onions

"vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Tribesmen of Gor (pg 47)

Onions are wonderful sauteed, baked, fried, raw, chopped, shredded, sliced...strongly flavored, they are an excellent accompaniment to fish when used raw or fried. However, when cooked slowly, they usually sweeten, making them very good roasted slowly with bosk or tarsk.


Peas

"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 (pg 87)

Peas are peas. Cook as you would prepare the same vegetable from Earth.


Sul

"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 (pg 80)

"With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate." Guardsman of Gor (pg 234)

"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 (pg 219)

Sul are like Earth potatoes and should be prepared in many of the same ways. They are probably one of the most versatile root vegetables on Gor. They are plentiful and transport well, making them easy to export. Among the Peasants, a mash of sul is fermented, making sul-paga, possibly the most intoxicating beverage on Gor-intoxicating enough to make an unaccustomed person extremely ill.


Tur-pah

"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 (pg 45)

"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 (pg 219)

Being a fungus, these are probably suitable to being used like Earth mushrooms.