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Gorean Food - Vegetable/Fruit


ref: The Karian Notes, Section 02G



Fruits

Blueberries
Smuggled to Gor from earth. Very rare.

Celane melon
Cantaloupe

Cherries (Book12, page 349)
Tyros cherries, famous

Dates (Book4, page 59)(Book10, page 46)
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 such baskets constitute a huda. In large compressed bricks, they are used in trade. From the City of Tor

Ka-la-na (Book1, pages 26, 79, 96 and 168)(Book4, page 151)(Book7, pages 114, 331 and 332)(Book15, pages 158 and 375)(Book21, pages 344 and 360)
fruit - eaten, made into Ka-la-na Wine

Larma (Book10, pages 27 and 37)(Book12, page 349)(Book20, page 267)(Book23, page 437)
It is sometimes called the pit fruit, because of its large single stone. Fried larma with a browned honey sauce

Larma, succulent (Book10, pages 27 and 37)(Book23, page 437)
fruit with a hard shell, brittle and easily broken, which enclosed a fleshy endocarp - succulent, juicy, delicious fruit; sometimes sliced and fried, and served with browned-honey sauce. When a female is referred to as a "larma", it is meant that her frigid exterior conceals a quite different interior. Offering a larma, real or imagined, by a kneeling slave girl to her Master is a silent quiet plea for his sexual use of the girl or to be raped

Larma, apple-like (Book20, page 267)
Single-seeded apple-like fruit; a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed; commonly called pit fruit

Melon (Book10, page 45)
10:45 Yellowish red-striped spheres (as described in a Tahari market)

Merlot grapes
A darker grape, used to make Merlot wine.

Olives (Book6, page 114)
Red olives from Tyros

Peaches (Book1, page 26)
Similar to earth peaches

Pit-fruit (Book20, page 267)
Hard larma, a firm, single-seeded, apple-like fruit unlike the segmented, juicy

Ram berries (Book7, page 305)
Small, reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small seeds. Small, purple colored berries native to Gor. Eaten raw, jams, pies

Redfruit
A sweet fruit that is similar in texture and taste to the earth apple.

Ta-grapes (Book3, page 45)
Similar to Earth grapes; purple in color or white, and grown in the vineyards of Cos

Tospit (Book4, page 59)(Book9, page 102)(Book10, page 46)
Grows on bushes small wrinkled yellow-white peach-like fruit. a bitter, juicy citrus fruit, similar to a lemon with a skin more like a husk. It is about the size of a plum. It is very bitter, but edible. The juice of the tospit is mixed with other fruit juices for a citrus drink. It is used as a garnish in the drink kal-da. To be eaten, it is candied or cut up and dipped in 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. Its name comes from the large number of seeds it contains. They almost always have an odd number of seeds, except for the rare, long stemmed ones.Tospit has two uses. The first as a food, the second as a target in quiva throwing games. Patches of the bushes are indigenous to the drier valleys of the eastern Cartius


Vegetables

Miscellaneous (Book2, page 29)(Book9, pages 81 and 102)(Book10, pages 37 and 47)(Book21, page 82)
peas, beans, tomatoes, squash, mushroom, turnips, carrots, radishes, onions, cabbage, peppers, garlic etc. From seed imported from Earth

Kes shrub(Book3, page 45)
A shrub, blue secondary roots are salty. ingredient in sullage, a Gorean soup

Kort (Book10, page 37)
A large, brownish-skinned, thick-rinded, sphere-shaped vegetable usually 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish and fibrous, and heavily seeded; rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg
Sul (Book6, page 219)(Book11, page 134)(Book16, pages 231 and 234)(Book22, page 80)
Principle ingredient in sullage, and a staple of the Gorean diet. A large, thick-skinned, starchy, yellow-fleshed tuberous root of the sul plant, golden brown, vine borne fruit. Can also be baked, or sliced and fried - similar to a potato, except grows above ground

Tur-pah (Book3, page 45)(Book4, page 217)(Book6, page 219)(Book25, page 244)
An edible tree parasite; vine-like with curly, red (scarlet), ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; vegetable - ingredient in sullage, a Gorean soup


Spices and Candy

Chocolate (Book19, pages 42, 61 and 63)
Made from the coca beans, comes from the far south. Normally brewed into a drink in the finer establishment, expensive (beans from cacao tree's brought from Earth)

Tasta (Book22, page 81)
Sweet, succulent candy on a stick; normally found in parks, promenades and popular events. Possibly coated with chocolate or fudge. Typical flavors include mint, licorice, fruit flavors, peppermint, etc.

Spices (Book4, page 59)(Book7, page 86)(Book10, page 238)
nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, spikenard, pepper, etc.

Sugar (Book10, pages 89 and 105)(Book15, page 132)
although the flavors of the sugars are not revealed, there are several colors. White and yellow are described, and other quotes speak of gorean sugars, and in particular four gorean sugars

Salt
Red salt (Book10, pages 20 and 238)
some of the salt mines in the Tahari Desert Waste area of Klima (salt mines of Kasra and Tor), deliver a salt, famed on Gor, that is red in color from deposits of ferrous oxide. It is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after it's port of embarkation at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen. A delicacy

White Salt (Book10, pages 231, and 238-240)
mined by the slaves who manage to live through a punishing march over the white hot crusts of salt of the Tahari Wastes to Klima, for example. Salt, mined from the Tahari makes up 20% of the salt used in various products of Gor. The forced marches to Klima can only be done in the fall, winter, or spring when the surface temperature of the salt crusts reach 160 degree's Farenheit and the air temperature ranges from 120 to 140 degree's. The mining, harvesting, sifting, purifying and packaging process turn out nine qualities of salt which are shipped all over Gor

Yellow Salt (Book5, page 86)(Book9, pages 186-187)
comes from the sea, and from Klima, 'of the south'.



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