Foods of Gor Apricot : apparently identical to the apricot of Earth; references exist of the fruit being sold in marketplaces of the Tahari. Arctic Gant Eggs : eggs of the migratory Arctic gant; when frozen, they are eaten like apples. Beans : no description Biscuits : a dried pressed biscuits described as baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour. Black Bread : baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey. Bond-Maid Gruel : a porridge served to bond-maids in Torvaldsland made of dampened Sa-Tarna and raw fish. 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. Cabbages : no description given. Candy : 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. ( also see below Mint Sticks) Celane Melon : similar to honeydew melon, it is served chilled and sliced. Cheese : Pressed from the milk of the Bosk they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds. Cherries : Grown in Tyros. Cosian Wingfish : also known as songfish due to its whistling mating song; a tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia. Dates : These come from the City of Tor. staple of the diet of the Tahari Tribesmen; they are sold in a tef (a handful with the 5 fingers closed; a tefa is 6 tefs (a small basket); Five such baskets constitute a huda. In large compressed bricks they are used in trade. Eel : a voracious animal which can maim or kill a slave in moments. Some varieties are edible and considered a Gorean delicacy. Varieties include: river eel, black eel, and spotted eel. Eggs : usually vulo eggs.. but there are many varieties available depending on the region. Fish, Parsit : a silvery fish having brown stripes, the follow the 'parsit current' in the polar basin. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south. Garlic : not described in detail. Grunts : Great Specled - a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors; White-bellied - a large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish. It's eggs are considered a rare delicacy.. like caviar. Honey : no description given.. just that honey bees are raised. Katch : foliated leaf vegetable similar to lettuce. Kes Shrub : a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage. Kort : often served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg, a large, brownish-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable of the Tahari usually some 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. Larma : they come in two types: 1)juicy = a segmented, succulent fruit, 2) hard = rather like an apple, having one pit, commonly called the pit fruit, it is 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. Melons : yellowish, red-striped spheres. Mint Sticks : just mentioned as tiny mint sticks in a bowl. Mushrooms : no description given Olives : are commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also Red Olives which come from the groves of Tyros. Onions : no description given. Pastries : nothing specific mentioned. Peas : These are mentioned as a menu item, but not described but peas are peas. Peppers : not described Radishes : not described in detail Raisins : not described.. but since there are grapes.. there are raisins. Ram-berry : 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 pith may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste canal so be fried into a type of pancake. Salt: "Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from 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. Sa-Tarna : grain, specifically wheat, yellow, and since it is usually described as being cut in wedges, probably baked in a round flat pan. 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. "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. 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 : purple fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos. Tambur 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 which runs down its spine to the base of the tail, often roasted whole. 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 wether you or the bird gets to eat that night. Tospit : small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the eastern Cartius. They are bitter but edible, and are sometimes served sliced and sweetened with honey, and in syrups, and to flavor, with their juices, a variety of dishes. They are also carried on sea voyages to prevent nutritional deficiencies. They almost always have an odd number of seeds, except for the rare, long-stemmed ones. The Wagon People often bet on the number of seeds. Turnip : grown on the oasis of the Tahari. Tur-pah : an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage. Vangis : type of produce sold at market; detailed description unavailable. Vulo : a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs. Drinks of Gor Ale : Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer...a deep gold in color, and brewed from the grains of Gor and hops imported from earth in the early years. It is traditionally served in tankards or horns. Bazi tea : an herbal beverage served hot & heavily sugared; traditionally drunk 3 tiny cups at a time, in rapid succession. Beer, Rence : steeped and fermented from the pith and crushed seeds of the rence plant, it is a drink of the rence growers of the Delta of the Vosk. Black wine : coffee; traditionally served with white and yellow sugars and powdered bosk milk, and in tiny cups, although in most taverns it is served in mugs. It is grown on the slopes of Thentis it is thought to have come from Urth on a slave acquisition run. If asked to serve it second slave means to serve it black. Breeding wine : a sweet beverage which counteracts the effects of slave wine, making a slave girl fertile; also called second wine, it is made from the extract of the teslik plant. Chocolate : made from beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth.It is served in higher class establishments. Falarian Wine : an exquisite, rare, fabulously expensive wine, it's cost would purchase a city. It's existence is only rumored among collectors. Fermented Milk Curds : A Tuchuk drink, made from fermented bosk milk curds. Ka-la-na : a very potent dry red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. Like the wines of earth the quality of ka-la-na varies from that of a common table wine to premium brands such as the very expensive 'Slave Gardens of Anesidemus' and 'Boleto's Nectar', a medium-grade wine. Ar is particularly noted for it's production of fine ka-la-na. Ka-la-na wine is reported to have an aphrodisiac effect on females. Kal-da or cal-da : alcoholic beverage made of ka- la-na wine diluted with citrus juices such as tospit and larma and mixed with strong spices, and served hot. Liana Vine : a rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water. Mead : the preferred beverage of the northland, made with fermented honey, water and spice, traditionally served in a large animal horn. Milk : can be bosk milk, verr or kaiila. (see below Sand Kailla Milk) Mulled ka-la-na : Heated ka-la-na, with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of ka-la-na fruit or tospit, served in a goblet. (angel has never seen this in the books, perhaps an IRC invention, although Trevians prefer ka-la-na served warm ) Paga : (abbr. of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, lit. 'pleasure of the life-daughter'): a grain based, distilled hard liquor akin to whiskey; sometimes served warm to very hot, this is the drink most often served in Taverns in a variety of vessels. ( Note: Paga is commonly served in a 3-footed bowl.) Palm Wine : drink mentioned briefly; no description available. Sand Kailla Milk : reddish and salty. High in ferrous sulfate. Slave Wine : brewed from bitter herbs, acts as a contraceptive drunk once per month although a girl would not serve this wine a slave would be given this by her Master, later books show a type only needed to be drunk once and then needing "second wine" to conteract the effects. Sul Paga : alcoholic beverage made from suls; akin to vodka. Ta-wine : a dry wine made from Ta grapes from the Isle of Cos, served at room temperature, or warm, in a tankard or goblet. Turian Liquer : a thick, sweet liqueur from Turia, served in tiny glasses. These liqueurs are considered the best on Gor. Turian Wine : a thick syrupy wine so sweet and thick that is it said one can see a thumbprint on its surface. Water : spring water from the mountains or from the liana vine or carpet plants from the rain forest area inland of Schendi. White Wine : a wine light in color and taste, it is not described in detail just as white wine. ___________________________________ Back __________________________________________________________________