| Ale |
served in tankards or horns, it is one of the two favored drinks of
the
Torvaldslanders, the other being mead.
9/82-83, 99, 191, and 194 |
| apricot |
apparently identical to the apricot of Earth; references exist of the
fruit being sold in marketplaces of the Tahari. 10 /45 |
| Bazi tea |
extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and heavily sugared.
It gives them strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them by
making them sweat, as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three
small cups at a time, carefully measured. 10/38 Bazi tea is drunk
in tiny glasses, usually three at a time, carefully measured 10/139
Hot Bazi tea I wanted. This is an important trade item in the north. I
now knew why. The southern sugars are also popular. I had originally supposed
this was because of their sweetness, there being few sweet items, save
some berries, in the north. I now began to suspect that the calories of
the sugars also played their role in their popularity. 12/206 |
| biscuits |
a dried pressed biscuit described as baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna
flour. 17/328 |
| black wine |
from the Mountains of Thentis, served hot...extremely strong,
and bitter, coffee...Thentis does not trade the beans for black wine...very
expensive and even in Thentis is only used in High Caste homes...beans
were doubtlessly brought from Earth...5/106-107 Commonly, too, it is mollified
with creams and sugars. I drank it without creams and sugars, perhaps,
for I had been accustomed, on Earth, to drinking coffee in such a manner,
and the black wine of Gor is clearly coffee, or closely akin to coffee.
16/247
'Second slave,' I told her, which, among the river towns,
and in certain cities, particularly in the north, is a way of indicating
that I would take the black wine without creams or sugars, and as it came
from the pouring vessel, which, of course, in these areas, is handled by
the "second slave," the first slave being the girl who puts down the cups,
takes the orders and sees that the beverage is prepared according to the
preferences of the one who is being served.....The expression "second slave,"
incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars
with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving." 16/244&245
served in: thick, heavy clay bowls;
5/106 tiny silver cup 16/247 |
| black bread |
mentioned without description 8/13 |
| bond-maid gruel |
unsweetened, mudlike Sa-Tarna meal with raw fish 9/65 |
| bosk |
oxlike creature, huge, shambling animal with a thick humped neck and
long shaggy hair, wide head, tiny red eyes, temperament of a sleen, two
long wicked horns that reach out from its head which suddenly curve
forward to terminate in fearful points. 4/4 large, horned shambling ruminant
of the Gorean Plains 6/26roast 9/191 |
| bread |
in the form of wedges...almost always baked in round, flat loaves...average
loaf is cut into either four or eight wedges 23/70 |
| breeding wine |
a sweet beverage which counteracts the effects of slave wine making
a slave girl fertile; also called second wine. 18/319 |
| butter |
...due to the absence of verr or bosk, butter would be in scarce supply.
9/156 |
| cheese- |
...cheese of the Verr...6/114 |
| chocolate |
rich, creamy, , ulitmately have an Earth origin not improbable that
the beans from which the first cacao trees on Gor brought from Earth, beans
obtained from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics
19/61 |
| Cosian wingfish liver |
...tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk...served
braised and considered a delicacy to include its liver as being the 'delicacy
of delicacies'. 4/84-85 |
| dates |
a 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 suchbaskets constitute a huda. In large compressed bricks they are
used in trade. 10/46 |
| eel |
voracious..Gorean delicacy, carnivorous. river eels, black eels,
spotted eel 25/428 carnivorous, frequent the lower delta 6/8
ribboned for cooking 6/114 |
| eggs, artic gant |
eggs of the migratory Arctic gant; when frozen, their eggs are eaten
like apples. 12/196 |
| eggs, vulo |
domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat 4/1 the scrambled
eggs of vulos 12/20 |
| eggs, white bellied grunt |
It's eggs are considered a rare delicacy. 14/276 described
as clustered, tiny black eggs of the white grunt served in a small golden
cup with a small golden spoon. 14/276 |
| Falarian Wine |
an exquisite, rare, fabulously expensive wine, it's cost would purchase
a city. It's existence is only rumored among collectors. 21/158-159 |
| grease |
"I might have you fried in the grease of tarsk,' she said, "boiled
in the oil of tharlarion!" 9/111 .....at the foot of cauldrons of
boiling tharlarion oil 9/141 |
| great speckled grunt |
a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors.
11/360 |
| white bellied grunt |
large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish
9/59 |
| honey |
...and hives, where honey bees were raised..9/81 when fermented,
used as an ingredient in mead. 9/78, 89 and 90 |
| ice |
...in the shadow of the cliff, would be the ice house, where ice from
the mountains, brought down on sledges to the valley, would be kept covered
with chips of wood. (Torvaldsland) 9/81 'My house, incidentally, like most
Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally,
food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course,
does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice
houses, under sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it
delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury
of ice in the summer. 16/295 |
| Ka-la-na |
a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree 1/68
fermented red liquid 1/79 ...fetched not a skin,
but a bottle, of wine, Ka-la-na wine 4/151
Ka-la-na flask 1/168 rich, delicate, Gorean
fermented beverage 7/114 found a bottle of Ka-la-na, of good vintage, from
the vineyards of Ar 7/331 'I then took the wine, with a small copper bowl,
and a black, red-rimmed wine crater, to the side of the fire. I poured
some of the wine into the small copper bowl, and set it on the tripod over
the tiny fire in the fire bowl...Again I took the bowl from the fire.
It was now not comfortable to hold the bowl, but it was not painful to
do so. I poured the wine from the small copper bowl into the black, red-rimmed
wine crater...' 7/331&332 ...Ka-la-nas, sweets and drys, from
distant Ar 10/213 ...a bit of Ka-la-na spilling from the silver
goblet she held. 15/157 |
| Kal-da |
hot drink, almost scalding, made of diluted Ka-la-na wine, mixed with
citrus juices and stinging spices...mouth-burning concoction popular with
some of the lower castes 2/76 |
| Katch |
foliated leaf vegetable 10/37 |
| Kes |
a shrub whose salty blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage,
a Gorean soup. 3/45 |
| Kort |
a large, brownish-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some 6
inches in width. The interior is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.
10/37 |
| larma |
'... hard larma from the tray. This
is a firm, single-seeded, applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented,
juicy larma. It is sometimes called, and perhaps
more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone.' 20/267
'The larma is luscious. It has a rather hard shell but the shell is brittle
and easily broken. Within, the fleshy endocarp, the fruit, is delicious
and very juicy.' 23/437 ...juicy red larma fruit, biting into it
with a sound that seemed partly crunching as he went through the shell,
partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp. 4/230 |
| liana vine |
a rainforest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water.
13/310 |
| marsh leech |
described as rubbery about 4 inches long; it attaches itself to plants
in the marsh or float free in the water, waiting for warm blooded animals.
They fasten themselves to their victim to suck blood until, satiated, they
detach. They can be removed with fire or salt. They are edible. 24/96-97,
99-100, 102, 236 |
| mead |
sweet and strong 9/191 drink made with fermented honey and water, and
often spices 24/16 ...to fill his cup with the mead, from the heavy
hot
tankard 9/78 large drinking horn of
the north 9/89 |
| melon |
in a Tahari market, described as a yellowish red-striped sphere. 10/45 |
| mint stick |
a confection served in a bowl on a tray set for blackwine service,
otherwise not described. 13/10 |
| mul fungus |
bland whitish fibrous vegetable-like material which is the main food
of muls. 3/109 |
| milk |
bosk: ..and they were milk bosk. 9/82
a small bowl of powdered bosk milk... 16/295
milk from the bosk, a staple of life for the Tribes of the Wagon Peoples.
4/5
kaiila: used by the peoples of the Tahari
as verr milk is used elsewhere, it is reddish with a salty strong taste
due to the content of ferrous sulfate. 10/71
verr: sometimes sold in open markets from
a brass container, carried on a strap and served in tiny brass cups. 17/61 |
| oysters |
from the delta of the Vosk. 7/301 |
| palm wine |
drink mentioned briefly; no description available. 13/429 |
| pemmican |
strips of dried kailiauk meat pounded into a powder and mixed with
fruit, such as chokeberries, is fixed in kailiauk fat and shaped into round,
flat cakes. Provides portable protein and energy source. 18/46 |
| ram-berry |
small reddish fruit not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small
edible seeds. 7/207, 305 |
| red olive-- |
from the groves of Tyros. 6/114 |
| paga |
pot of Paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains
of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna..2/74 ...tasted the fiery paga of the Sa-Tarna
fields north of the Vosk. 9/1 I took the goblet
filled with burning paga. 9/22 -fermented brew concocted from Sa-Tarna
1/61warmed is felt sooner 6/100 burning 6/102 fiery draught 6/113 put the
paga, in a small kantharos...23/71 ...breaking the kantharos into shards
on the face...more dangerous than with a metal goblet...certain warriors
request thier paga in metal goblets when dining in public houses...23/77
'The beast returned from the cabinet with two glasses and a bottle' 12/371 |
| parsit |
fish, silverish, striped with brown 9/61 slender, striped 9/27 smoked
and dried and placed in barrels 9/28 |
| pastry |
crumbs of the pastry...to lick frosting from her fingers 9/157 pastries
with creams and custards 12/20 |
| pastries, tarts, cakes |
..."for pastries and tarts and cakes..." 4/238 |
| peaches |
'... a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh. ' 10/27 |
| pith (rence plant) |
edible, one of the staples of the rence growers' diet, on occasion
used as caulking for boat seams, but tow and pitch covered by tar
or grease are generally used 6/7 |
| red salt of Kasra |
so called from its port of embarcation, brought from secret pits and
mines, deep in the interior of Gor bound in heavy cylinders on the backs
of kaiila. 10/20 |
| rence beer |
steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the
whitish pith of the plant 6/18 |
| rence paste |
when fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake often sprinkled with
rence seeds 6/25 |
| salt |
...above the bowls of yellow and red salt... 4/253 obtained by men
of Torvaldsland from sea water or burning of seaweed, a trade commodity...the red
and yellow salts of the south are not domestic to Torvaldsland 9/187 |
| Sa-Tarna |
yellow grain or Life Daughter 1/43 round, flat, six-sectioned loaf
9/178 |
| Sa-Tassna |
meat 1/43 means Life Mother 1/44 |
| sea sleen |
aquatic mammal that inhabits the polar seas, following the parsit current
in search of their main food source, the parsit fish. There are four main
types: black sleen, brown sleen, tusked sleen, flat-nosed sleen. Some remain
under the ice year round, mostly dormant but rising every quarter of an
Ahn or so to breathe through cracks in the ice. A long sleek mammal with
flippers and six legs and double fanged jaws can weigh as much as 1000
pounds.. and as much as 20 feet in length hunted by the Red Hunters for
food and pelt. 11/185 12/38 & 285 |
| 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. 5/126, 7/208, 9/56, 63-65, 22/66 |
| slave wine |
bitter, effect lasts for more than a Gorean month, contraceptive 9/23-24
...extremely bitter, one draught of the substance is reputed to last until
the administration of an appropriate 'releaser', usually administered to
female slaves at regular intervals, usually once or twice a year 22/175 |
| snails |
...shell crushed between finges and sucked out, chewed and swallowed,
also used as fish bait 9/62 |
| sul |
a large, thick-skinned, starchy, yellow-fleshed root vegetable. It
is a staple of the Gorean diet. 6/219, 11/134, 16/234, 22/80 |
| sullage |
a kind of soup 4/217 |
| Sul-paga |
when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is clear as water...almost
tasteless. One does not guzzle Sul paga. 11/134 'Sul paga,
as anyone knew, is seldom available outside of a peasant village, where
it is brewed. Sul paga would slow a tharlarion. To stay on your feet after
a mouthful of Sul paga it is said one must be of the peasants, and then
for several generations. And even then it is said, it is difficult to manage.'
11/414 |
| sugar |
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 10/89 |
| tabuk |
a kind of antelope, yellow in color with a single horn found in many
area's of Gor. It travels in fleet footed herds and haunts the ka-la-na
thickets of the planet occasionally venturing daintily into the meadows
in search of berries and salt. It's meat is used as food by men often as
tabuk steak. 2/76 & 126, 3/191 |
| ta-grape |
edible purple fruit, the size of a small plum, from which Ta-wine is
made, usually associated with the terraces of Cos, but also found in various
locales of similar latitude 3/45, 10/213, 20/291, 21/81 |
| tarsk |
roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gore's temperate
forests. 2/76 ...spitted, roasted tarsk 9/91 |
| tasta |
sweet, succulent candy on a stick; normally found in parks, promenades,
and popular events. 22/81 |
| Ta wine |
from the Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos 14/306 |
| tospit |
wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum,
grows on a tospit bush, patches which are indigenous to the drier valleys
of the western Cartius. They are bitter but edible. 4/59 invariably
have an odd number of seeds, saving the rarer, long-stemmed variety...quite
bitter...commonly used, sliced and sweetened with honey and in syrups...with
their jusices, used to flavor a variety of dishes...high in vitamin C...called
the seaman's larma...fairly hard-fleshed and not difficult to dry and store
9/102 |
| Turian wine |
...sweet, syrupy, flavored and sugared to the point where one could
almost leave one's fingerprint on their surface. 4/83-84 |
| Tur-pah |
vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet ovate leaves....leaves
are edible and used in sullage. 4/217 |
| vangis |
type of produce sold at market; detailed description unavailable. 19/314 |
| vegetables |
...Gorean peas 5/87 ...there would be peas,
and beans, cabbages
and onions and patches of the golden sul...9/81
these are common Earth vegetables found on various parts of Gor, listed
with their annotations: mushroom, beans, turnips, carrots, radishes, onions,
peas, cabbage, peppers, and garlic. 2/29, 10/37 & 47, 9/81 & 102,
21/ |
| verr |
long-haired with spiraled horns 1/147 small long-haired,
less beligerent and sizeable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges
4/10 ...candied verr chop. |
| vulo |
domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat 4/1 the scrambled
eggs of vulos 12/20 |
| vulo brains |
'"It is the spiced brain of the Torian vulo,"....4/83 'I shot the spiced
vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong..' 4/83 |
| whale |
baleen: bluish white spotted whale
with a blunt fin, hunted by the Red Hunters. 12/265 & 334
Hunjer: toothed whale hunted by the
Red Hunters. 12/36
Karl: four-fluked baleen whale hunted
by the Red Hunters 12/36 |
| Gorean wines |
are very strong often having an alcoholic content of 40-50% 23/70 |
