Food

Fruit
Grain
Meat
Other
Poultry
Seafood
Seasonings
Sweets
Vegetables

Dairy

Butter: Can be made from bosk or verr milk.
We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of butter.
~Marauders of Gor, p. 101
Cheese: Can be made from bosk or verr milk.
...and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese.
~Assassins of Gor, p. 168
Eggs, Artic Gant:
When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples.
~Beasts of Gor, p. 168
Eggs, Vulo:
Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan...
~Slave Girl of Gor, p. 73
Fruit

Apricots:
I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices.
~Tribesman of Gor, p. 45
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, p. 208
Cherries:
With the tip of my tongue I touched her lips. Some slave cosmetics are flavored. "Does Master enjoy my taste?" she asked. "The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I know," she said. "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said.
~tBeasts of Gor, p. 28
Chokecherries:
Crushed fruit, usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat. The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a quick energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable, long lasting stamina protein.
~Blood Brothers of Gor, p. 46
Dates: From Tor.
The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks.
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Grapes, Ta: Large, sweet grapes. They should be pitted and skinned prior to serving.
The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos.
~Priest-Kings of Gor, p. 45
Kalana: A sweet juicy fruit. Similar to a pear.
Lastly, as the culmination of Ar’s Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar’s family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The member of the Ubar’s family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards of the Home Stone resume their vigil.
~Tarnsman of Gor, p. 68
Larma : Sweet succulent fruit, similar to a nectarine.
Special Note: A slave may offer larma to her Master to indicate she wants to be used sexually.
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, p. 437
Larma, Hard:
I took a slice of 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.
~Players of Gor, p. 267
Melons:
"Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me.
~Tribesman of Gor, p. 45
Peaches:
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, p. 28
Plums:
I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums.
~Tribesman of Gor, p. 45
Pommegranate:
"Pomegranate orchards lie at the east of the oasis," I said. "Gardens lie inward. There is even a pond, between two of the groves of date palms.
~Tribesman of Gor, p. 11
Raisins:
...vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey.
~Tribesman of Gor, p. 45
Ramberries: Similar to raspberries
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 plums save for the many small seeds.
~Captive of Gor, p. 305
Redfruit: Similar to apples
Topsit: Very bitter, full of Vitamin C.
He looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking something like a peach, but about the size of a plum.
~Nomads of Gor, p. 149
Topsit, Long-stemmed: Very bitter, full of Vitamin C. Has an even number of seeds.
The common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds. On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds. Both fruits are indistinguishable outwardly. I could see that, perhaps by accident, the tospit which Kamchak had thrown me had had the stem twisted off. It must be then, I surmised, the rare, long-stemmed tospit.
~Nomads of Gor, p. 149
Grains

Bread, Black:
The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings and the labor of the oar.
~Hunters of Gor, p. 13
Bread, Yellow:
I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 76
Cakes, Rence: Fried rence paste.
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, p. 25
Nuts:
...vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey...
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Rence: Similar to rice. Grown in the marshes.
In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste.
~Raiders of Gor, p. 28
Rice:
I went to the side and removed a bowl from its padded, insulating wrap. Its contents were still warm. It was a mash of cooked vulo and rice.
~Players of Gor, p. 380
Sa-Tarna, Brown: Grain adapted for the harsh environment of the Tahari.
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...
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Sa-Tarna, Yellow: Yellow grain.
Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter.
~Tarnsman of Gor, p. 43
Meat

Bosk: Similar to Buffalo. Primary staple of the Wagon Peoples. The meat may be served in any manner that beef would be cooked.
...the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink...
~Nomads of Gor, pp. 4-5
Kailiauk: Similar to the bosk. May be prepared any way beef would be prepared. Also, used in making pemmican.
"The red savages depend for their very lives on the kailiauk" said Kog. "He is the major source of their food and life. His meat and hide, his bones and sinew, sustain them. From him they derive not only food but clothing and shelter, tools and weapons.
~Savages of Gor, p. 50
Tabuk: Similar to Antelope. The meat is served roasted.
There are more than twenty types of this animal found in the rainforests. Their sweet meat is roasted.
~Tarnsman of Gor, p. 146.
Tarsk: Similar to Pork. The meat may be served any way that you would serve pork.
...perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable sixtusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 76
Verr: Similar to goat. The meat may be served in any manner that goat would be served.
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.
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Others

Gruel, Bond Maid: Similar to Sa-Tarna Porridge.
Another of the bond-maids was then freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish.
~Marauders of Gor, pp. 63-64
Insects:
It had been filled with the fat, loathsome green insects which, in the Ka-la-na thicket, Ute had told we were edible. Indeed, she had eaten them. 'they are nourishing,' she had said.
~Captive of Gor, p. 315
Porridge, Sa-Tarna: Similar to Bond Maid Gruel, without the parsit fish.
Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish.
~Marauders of Gor, p. 56
Sullage: Stew made from suls, tur-pah and kes.
First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as 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 curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,...and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub.
~Priest-Kings of Gor, p. 45
Poultry

Gant: Similar to duck.
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, p. 4
Tumits: Similar to ostrich. The meat may be served in the same manner.
Tumits are large, flightless carnivorous birds of the plains, often 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.
~Nomads of Gor, p. 2
Vulo: Similar to Cornish game hens.
Vulo are domesticated pigeons raised for their meat and eggs.
~Nomads of Gor, p. 1
Seafood

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, p. 114
Eggs, White Grunt: Caviar.
...and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt.
~Fighting Slave of Gor, pp. 275-276
Fish, Parsit: Similar to mackerel.
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, p. 28
Oysters, Vosk:
Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk.
~Captive of Gor, p. 301
Snails:
Once the Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown overboard. Returning to me he held one of the snails, whose shell he crushed between his fingers, and sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing it. He then threw the shell fragments overboard. "They are edible," he said. "And we use them for fish bait."
~Marauders of Gor
Wingfish, Cosian: Small fish, similar to marlins. Only the liver is eaten.
"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish.
~Nomads of Gor, p. 84
Seasonings

Cinnamon:
"Do you smell it?" asked Ulafi. "Yes," I said. "It is cinnamon and cloves, is it not?" "Yes," said Ulafi, "and other spices, as well."
~Explorers of Gor, p. 98
Cloves:
"Do you smell it?" asked Ulafi. "Yes," I said. "It is cinnamon and cloves, is it not?" "Yes," said Ulafi, "and other spices, as well."
~Explorers of Gor, p. 98
Honey:

The proprietor arrived with hot bread, honey, salt, and to my delight, a huge, hot roasted chunk of tarsk.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 79
Salt, Red: Heavily stained with iron.
...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
Salt, Sea:
Salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or the burning of seaweed.
~Marauders of Gor, p. 186
Salt, White:

Most salt at Klima is white...
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 238
Spices:
Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tharai districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head.
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 46
Sugar, White:
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.
~Tribesmen of Gor, p 89
Sugar, Yellow: From Turia
There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar.
~Nomads of Gor, p. 23
Sweets

Cakes, Honey:
...from a vendor, the Forkbeard bought his girls honey cake; with their fingers they ate it eagerly, crumbs at the side of their mouths.
~Marauders of Gor, p. 144
Custard:
On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards.
~Guardsman of Gor, p. 239
Ices: Like sorbet.
Free women, here and there, were delicately putting tidbits beneath their veils. Some even lifted their veils somewhat to drink of the flavored ices. Some low-caste free women drank through their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on the rep-cloth.
~Assassin of Gor, p. 141
Mint Sticks:
...a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers.
~Explorers of Gor, p. 10
Pastries, Assorted varities:
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, p. 238
Tastas: Like candy apples.
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.
~Dancer of Gor, p. 81
Vegetables

Beans:
At the oasis, will be grown...beans...
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Carrots:
...and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties...
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Corn:
They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.
~Savages of Gor, p. 233
Fungus, Mul: Fed to the muls (slaves of the Priest-Kings).
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, p.109
Garlic:
I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 29
Katch: A leafy, green vegetable, similar to romaine lettuce
...various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch...
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Kes: Salty, blue roots of a shrub, used as an ingredient in "sullage".
The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul,...the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,...and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub...
~Priest-Kings of Gor, p. 45
Kort: Similar to an acorn squash. Served with melted cheese and nutmeg.
...and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded.
~Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
Mushrooms:
I was particularly fond of stuffed mushrooms. "What are they stuffed with?" I asked Hurtha. "Sausage." he said. "Tarsk?" I asked. "Of course." he said.
~Mercenaries of Gor, p. 83
Olives, Red: 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, p. 114
Olives, Torian:
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, p. 168
Onions:
...who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 155
Peas:
...peas and Torian olives...
~Assassin of Gor, p. 168
Potatoes:
...who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 155
Peppers, Green:
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 p. 47
Peppers, Hot:
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 p. 46
Pumpkin:
They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.
~Savages of Gor, p. 233
Radishes:
...who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 155
Squash:
They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.
~Savages of Gor, p. 233
Sul: Similar to the yellow potato. Also, the principle ingredient in "sullage".
The sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable. It is very common on this world. There are a thousand ways in which it is prepared. It is fed even to slaves. I had had some at the house; narrow, cooked slices, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt, fed to me by hand.
~Dancer of Gor, p. 80
Turnips:
who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough.
~Outlaw of Gor, p. 155
Tur-pah: Similar to a lichen, grows on trees.
The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul,...the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,...and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub...
~Priest-Kings of Gor, p. 45


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