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| Apricot: Similar to Earth Apricots. Apricots can be served fresh, baked, or made into various cookies and cakes. Apricot can also be served as a liqueur or cordial, and as jellies, jams and preserves. Apricots, either halved or as preserves, can be used to decorate or as filling for small pastries. Tribesman of Gor pg 45 Beans: similar to Earth beans. They can be used in a variety of ways. Use then by themselves, or add to many dishes and casseroles. Tribesman of Gor pg 37 Black Bread: baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey Bosk: large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served Nothing of this animal is wasted. For the wagon peoples this is the staple of their diet. “The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an ox like creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skin cover their bodies” Nomads of Gor, page 4-5 “The meat was a steak cut from the loin, a huge shaggy long horned bovine, meat is seared, as thick as the forearm of a Warrior on a small iron grill on a kindling of charcoal cylinders so that the thin margin on the outside was black, crisp and flaky sealed within by the touch of the fire-the blood rich flesh hot and fat with juice”Outlaw of Gor, page 35 Blueberries: smuggled from Earth Butter: Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr Celane Melon: Cantalope Cheese: Pressed from the milk of the Bosk, these cheeses are sharp in taste and travel well, resisting mold in their hard rinds Dates: These come from the city of Tor Thought to be similar to dates on earth. “The principal export of the oases are dates and pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than a century. A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds” Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Fish: many different varieties of fish are consumed, eg parsit; a silvery fish having brown stripes, they 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. Book 12, page 38 and wingfish; a tiny blue saltwater fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in the city of Turia. Marsh shark - Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks. Raiders of Gor, page 58 Honey: Similar to Earth. Very thick and sweet. Used in cooking and for dipping and sauces, and even noted to be used medically. Marauders of Gor pg 81 Kalana fruit This is thought to be a sweet fruit from the kalana tree. It is a red fruit that is used to make kalana wine. "Over there," I said, "are some Ka-la-na trees. Wait here and I'll gather some fruit." Tarnsman of Gor, page 96 “I picked some Ka-la-na fruit and opened one of the packages of rations. Talena returned and sat beside me on the grass. I shared the food with her.” Tarnsman of Gor, page 106 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: Two variations of this fruit hard(pit fruit) or the juicy, eaten like and apple. There are two types of larma fruit. One is a single-seeded, apple-like fruit. The other is segmented and juicy with a hard, brittle shell on the outside. A slave girl who desires the touch of a Master may kneel before him, offering a larma as her unspoken message of need. Larma is an interesting fruit. Two vastly different appearing fruits are called larma, and the way that they may be used depends on the version chosen. The hard larma is applelike in texture, and apparently in taste, as it is used to stuff the mouth of the pork-like tarsk. It is this larma that is served fried, with a browned-honey sauce, or perhaps with a honey-butter sauce. The second version of larma is more like an orange, with a hard, removable brittle shell. This version of larma is extremely juicy and sweet, and is meant to be eaten fresh. It is this version of the larma that is often offered to a Master as an unspoken plea to be used. Each segment of the larma may be separated from the others, the succulent sections fed by hand, dripping with juices. Nomads of Gor pg 19, Players of Gor pg 267, Renegades of Gor pg 437 Olives: are commonly from the city of Tor (referred to as Torian Olives); also red olives which come from the groves of the city of Tyros Oysters: Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself. Captive of Gor, page 301 Peaches:"On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion, to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood….Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh." Tribesmen of Gor, pages 27-28 Peas:: Thought to be the same as peas of earth. “The lonely Caste of Woodsmen do not often speak. "I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man, his bundle like a giant's hump on his back. "The Priest-Kings themselves," I said, "could not ask for more.""Then, Warrior," said the man, issuing Gor's blunt invitation to a low caste dinner, "share my kettle.""I am honored," I said, and I was.”Outlaw of Gor Page 29 Pemmican: made mainly of dried kailiauk meat and fruit. High energy food mixture of the Red Savages. In Tuchuk it is made for the Warriors as They keep watch of the plains, however is made with bosk fat and meat. Blood Brother of Gor pg 46 Ram-berries: A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small, reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small seeds. Captive of Gor, page 305 Redfruit: similar in flesh and taste to apples of urth 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 Salt: Salt comes in three varieties, red, yellow and white. Most salt in mined in Klima. Torvoldlanders get their salt from sea water or seaweed. It is also brought in by traders...."but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from the ferrous oxide in its composition, which is called the Red Salt of Kasra..."~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 238 Sa-Tarna: grain, specifically wheat 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; Sugar: two varieties are commonly used, white sugar and yellow sugar. (Tribesmen of Gor p.89 & Nomads of Gor p.23) It is believed that it is made from fruits and juices of crushed cane stalks. There are other sugars mentioned , but not described in the books..."Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling, head down, served us our dessert, slices of tospit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars." (Rogue of Gor) {Red Sugar.... In the books, there are only two colours of sugar actually named, yellow and white. Four Gorean sugars are mentioned, though there is no reference as to what colours they are.} 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 from the Isle of Cos similar to urth grapes. Tarsk: porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. Meat is roasted and commonly stuffed with suls and peppers 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. Outlaw of Gor, page 76 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 I gathered that the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold, and others seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness. Nomads of Gor, page 2 Tospit: a bitter, juicy citrus fruit.Small and peach-like, yellow in color and often dried and candied On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a 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 western Cartius. They are bitter but edible. Nomads of Gor, page 59 Tur-pah: an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage Verr: a goat-like animal. The meat can be eaten. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. Verr meat must be steamed in the ground wrapped in leaves for the whole day. This prevents it from being bitter and stringy Vulo: a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs |
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| With sincere thanks to the M/many who have provided information for this section The Wagon Peoples grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing as we know it. They are herders and it is said killers. They eat nothing that has touched the dirt. They live on the meat and the milk of the bosk. pg.4 Nomads |
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