Apricots:
fruit.
Tribesmen of Gor pg 45
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, page 37
Berries:
"I felt the pull of a strap on my
throat, and opened my eyes. By a long leather
strap, some ten feet in length, I was
fastened by the neck to Ute. We were picking
berries."
Captive of Gor, page 208
Bond-Maid Gruel:
a porridge served in Torvaldsland made of
dampened Sa-Tarna and raw fish.
Marauders of Gor pg 67
Bosk:
A large, ox like animal that provides meat
and milk, as well as hides and furs for tents
and clothing, and is mostly associated with
the Wagon Peoples of the plains of Turia.
"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, pages 4-5
"With a serving prong, she placed narrow
strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my
plate."
Guardsman of Gor, page 234
"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried
vulo..."
Hunters of Gor, page 34
Bread:
This is the yellow Gorean bread made from
Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked in round loaves
and is a staple of most Gorean meals.
"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread,
baked in the shape of round, flat loaves,
fresh and hot;…"
Outlaw of Gor, page 76
"He removed my hand from the binding
fiber. I reached out for him. He thrust a
huge piece of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread into
my hands."
Captive of Gor, page 114
Butter:
Made from the milk of the verr or bosk...
" Olga," he said, "there is
butter to be churning in the churning
shed." "Yes, my Jarl," said
she, holding her skirt up, running from the
place of our exercises."
Marauders of Gor, page 101
"These females," she said,
indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt
at her feet, their heads to the turf,
"could be better employed on your farm,
dunging fields and making butter."
Marauders of Gor, page 156
"I saw small fruit trees, and hives,
where honey bees were raised; and there were
small sheds, here and there, with sloping
roofs of boards; in some such sheds might
craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried
or butter made."
Marauders of Gor, page 81
Candy:
"He yelled something raucous and ribald.
It had to do with "tastas" or
"stick candies." These are not
candies, incidentally, like sticks, as for
example, licorice or peppermint sticks, but
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. It is then ready to be
eaten.
" ... "These candies are usually
sold at such places as parks, beaches, and
promenades, at carnivals, expositions and
fairs, and at various types of popular
events, such as plays, song dramas, races,
games, and kaissa matches. They are popular
even with children." ... "The
expression was sometimes used by men for
women such as we."
Dancer of Gor, page 81
Cheese:
Made from the milk of the bosk or verr.
"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had
had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on
a metal rod, with slices of peppers and
larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins,
nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted
cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and
later, Turian wine."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
"Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of
Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of
the Verr and a sack of red olives from the
groves of Tyros."
Raiders of Gor, page 114
Chocolate:
first cocoa beans probably came from Earth,
Cosians obtain them in the tropics, rich and
creamy.
Kajira of Gor pg 61
Cosian Wingfish:
Called due to its ability to fly above the
waters of Cos for short distances. It's
livers are considered a delicacy.
"'Now this,' Saphrar the merchant was
telling me, 'is the braised liver of the blue
four-spired Cosian wingfish.' This fish is a
tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of
a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has
three or four slender spines in its dorsal
fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of
hurling itself from the water and, for brief
distances, on its stiff pectoral fins,
gliding through the air, usually to evade the
smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be
immune to the poison of the spines. This fish
is also sometimes referred to as the songfish
because, as a portion of its courtship
rituals, the males and females thrust their
heads from the water and utter a sort of
whistling sound. The blue, four-spired
wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos.
Larger varieties are found farther out to
sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a
great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy
of delicacies."
Nomads of Gor, pages 84-85
Dates:
"The principal export of the oases are
dates, or pressed-date bricks."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
Eggs, artic gant:
when frozen are eaten like apples.
Beasts of Gor pg 196
Eels:
"Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of
Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of
the Verr and a sack of red olives from the
groves of Tyros."
Raiders of Gor, page 114
Fish (White Grunt):
"Three other men of the Forkbeard
attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping
it along the side of the serpent, for parsit
fish, and the third, near the stem, with a
hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for
the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish
which haunts the plankton banks to feed on
parsit fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 59
Honey:
"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had
had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on
a metal rod, with slices of peppers and
larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins,
nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted
cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and
later, Turian wine."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
"I saw small fruit trees, and hives,
where honey bees were raised; and there were
small sheds, here and there, with sloping
roofs of boards; in some such sheds might
craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried
or butter made."
Marauders of Gor, page 81
Katch: : foliated leafy vegetable
Tribesmen of Gor pg 37
Kes:
One of the principal ingredients of Sullage,
a common Gorean soup.
"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, page 45
Kort:
A large, brownish-skinned, thick-rinded,
sphere-shaped vegetable, usually 6" in
width. The interior is yellowish and fibrous,
and heavily seeded; a rinded fruit of the
Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and
nutmeg.
Tribesman of Gor pg 37
Larma:
It is said that this fruit when served is a
silent plee for rape.
"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
"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."
Renegades of Gor pg 437
firm, single-seeded, apple like 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.
Players of Gor pg 267
Marsh Gant:
"I heard a bird some forty or fifty
yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh
gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic
fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh
girls, the daughters of Rence growers,
sometimes hunt them with throwing
sticks."
Raiders of Gor, page 4
"The cries of the marsh gants were about
us now. I saw that her hunting had been
successful. There were four of the birds tied
in the stern of the craft."
Raiders of Gor, page 10
Melons:
"Buy melons!" called a fellow next
to her, lifting one of the yellowish,
red-striped spheres toward me."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
Mul Fungus:
Eaten by the Muls (slaves) in the Nest of the
Priest Kings. Bland and tasteless, fibrous
sort of matter "It is not hard to get
used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no
taste, being and extremely bland, pale,
whitish, vegetablelike matter."
Priest Kings of Gor, page 109
Nuts:
fruit; ingredient for vulo stew
Tribesmen of Gor pg 47
Onion:
vegetable
Tribesmen of Gor pg 46
Olives:
From the city of Tor
"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."
Assassin of Gor, page 168
Pastries:
"On the tray were assorted pastries, on
the other was a variety of small, spiced
custards."
Guardsman of Gor, page 239
"I shop for wealthy women," said
she, "for pastries and tarts and
cakes—things they will not trust their
female slaves to buy."
Nomads of Gor, page 238
Parsit Fish:
"The men of Torvaldsland are skilled
with their hands. Trade to the south, of
course is largely in furs acquired from
Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried
parsit fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 28
"Tomorrow night," said Ivar
Forkbeard to her, " I shall have your
ransom money." She did not deign to
speak to him, but looked away. Like the
bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold
Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit
fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 56
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, page 87
Peppers:
vegetable
Tribesmen of Gor pg 47
Pith:
stem of the rence plant; edible; most common
staple in rence growers diet; edible both raw
and cooked
Raiders of Gor pg 7
Plum:
fruit
Tribesmen of Gor pg 45
Raisins:
"…vulo stew with raisins, nuts,
onions, and honey."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 45
Ram-Berries:
small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not
unlike tiny plums, save for the many small
seeds.
Captive of Gor pg 305
Red Olives:
"Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of
Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of
the Verr and a sack of red olives from the
groves of Tyros."
Raiders of Gor, page 114
Rence:
A water plant which is used for food, pressed
into paper or woven into cloth. The pith (or
center of the stem) is edible…it is made
into a paste or porridges, or made into rence
beer and drank from flagons. "The plant
has many uses besides serving as a raw
product in the manufacture of rence
paper…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…"
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."
Raiders of Gor, page 25
Rence Paste:
wet; when fried on a flat stone it makes a
kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence
seeds
Raiders of Gor pg 25
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."
Tribesmen of Gor pg 238
yellow salt
Nomads of Gor pg 253
Sa-Tarna Bread:
baked in small, round loaves, with eight
divisions in a loaf. Some smaller loaves are
divided into four divisions. These division
are a function, presumably, of their
simplicity, the ease with which they may be
made, the ease with which, even without
explicit measurement, equalities may be
produced.
Kajira of Gor pg 216
yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of
round, flat loaves.
Outlaw of Gor pg 76
Sa-Tassna:
"Interestingly enough, the word for meat
is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother.
Incidentally, when one speaks of food in
general, one always speaks of
Sa-Tassna."
Tarnsman of Gor, pages 43-44
Slave Gruel:
dried, precooked meal, water is then mixed
with it, forms a sort of cold porridge or
gruel.
Kajira of Gor pg 257
Spices:
Garlic, nutmeg, salt and other spices and
flavorings are mentioned… "..a kort
with melted cheese and nutmeg."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
"Some of the peppers and spices,
relished even by the children of the Tahari
districts, were sufficient to convince an
average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the
roof of the mouth and his tongue were being
torn out of his head."
Tribesmen of Gor, page 46
Sugar:
"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."
Tribesmen of Gor pg 89
Sul:
the sul is a large, thick skinned, starchy,
yellow fleshed, root vegetable. a tuberous
vegetable similar to the potato; often served
sliced and fried in butter and salted.
Dancer of Gor pg 80
] Sullage:
a common Gorean soup consisting of three
standard ingredients and, it is said,
whatever else may be found, saving only the
rocks of the field. The principal ingredients
of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy,
golden brown vine borne fruit of the golden
leafed sul plant; 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 44 - 45
Tabuk:
"They were northern tabuk, massive,
tawny and swift; many of them ten hands at
the shoulder, a quite different animal from
the small, yellow-pelted antelope-like
quadruped of the south. On the other hand,
they too were distinguished by the single
horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however,
that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at
its base, some two and one half inches in
diameter, and better than a yard in length. A
charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of
its reflexes, is quite a dangerous
animal."
Beasts of Gor, page 152
Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the
dead body of an antelope, one of the
one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks
that frequent the bright Ka-la-na thickets of
Gor."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 145
Ta-grape:
A Gorean grape - "I retrieved a grape
about the size of a small plum from the table
before it could be cleared away. It was
peeled and pitted, doubtless laboriously by
female slaves. It was a Ta-Grape."
Players of Gor pg 291 - 292
Tarsk:
The 6 tusked wild boar; it’s meat is
pork-like "…if I were lucky, a
slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six
tusked wild boar of Gor’s temperate
forests."
Assassin of Gor, page 87
"Before the feast I had helped the
women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh
gants, and then, later, turning spits for the
roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root
fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the
rence of the islands by metal racks,
themselves resting on larger pans."
Raiders of Gor, page 44
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, page 219
Tasta:
Stick 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 then the stick, from the bottom,
is thrust up, deeply, into it.
Dancer of Gor pg 81
Tospit:
a small, wrinkled yellowish white peach like
fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows
on the tospit bush, They are bitter but
edible.
Nomads of Gor pg. 59
rare, long-stemmed tospit contained an even
number of seeds.
Tribesmen of Gor pgs 45 & 46
Tumits:
"I gathered that the best time to hunt
tumits, the large flightless, carnivourous
birds of the southern plains, was at
hand..."
Nomads of Gor, page 331
Tur-Pah:
a vine-like vegetable
Magicians of Gor pg 244
Verr:
A goat-like animal raised for meat and milk;
"The smell of fruit and vegetables, and
verr milk, was strong."
Savages of Gor, page 60
"In the cafes, I had feasted well. I had
had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on
a metal rod…"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
Vulo:
"…vulo stew with raisins, nuts,
onions and honey…"
Tribesmen of Gor, page 48
"I shot the spiced vulo brain into my
mouth…"
Nomad of Gor, page 84
"I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried
vulo...I held the leg of the fried vulo
toward one of the girls..."
Hunters of Gor, page 34
Vulo Eggs:
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs
in a large, flat pan…"
Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
"Eta piled several of the hot, tiny
eggs, earlier kept fresh in cool sand within
the cave, on a plate, with heated yellow
bread, for him."
Slave Girl of Gor, page 73
|