Foods of Gor

Breads/Grains
Biscuits
"Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour." Savages of Gor, pg. 328, by John Norman.

Black bread
"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, pg. 13, by John Norman.

Brownish Sa-Tarna
"At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert" Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Bondmaid gruel
"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. The bond-maids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mudlike Sa-Tarna meal, with raw fish. They fed, however. Marauders of Gor, pg. 64 andn 65, by John Norman.

Pemmican
"Wakapapi," said Cuwignaka said to me. This is the Kaiila word for pemmican. A soft cake of this substance was pressed into my hands." Blood Brothers of Gor, pg. 46, by John Norman.

Rence cakes
"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, pg. 25, by John Norman.

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, pg. 380, by John Norman.

Sa tarna bread
"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot."Outlaw of Gor, pg. 76, by John Norman.

Sa tarna grain
"Far to my left, I saw a splendid field of Sa-Tarna, bending beautifully in the wind, that tall yellow grain that forms a staple of the Gorean diet." Outlaw of Gor, pg. 19, by John Norman.

slave bread
"I did not forget the slave, of course. Crusts of bread did I throw to the boards before her. It was slave bread, rough and coarse-grained." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 48, by John Norman.

Porridge
"I, mixing the water with the precooked meal, formed a sort of cold porridge or gruel. I then, with my fingers, and putting the bowl even to my lips, fell eagerly upon that thick, bland, moist substance." Kajira of Gor, pg. 257, by John Norman.

Dairy
Arctic Gant eggs
"I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. They nest in the mountaim of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological relation to the Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples." Beasts of Gor, pg. 196, by John Norman.

Bosk cheese
"The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought 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, pg. 168, by John Norman.

Bosk milk, powdered
"I brought up from the kitchen, where I had been keeping it hot, a vessel of black wine, with sugars, and cups and spoons. Too, I had brought up a small bowl of powdered bosk milk. We had finished the creams last night and, in any event, it was unlikely they would have." Guardsman of Gor, pg. 64 andn 20, by John Norman.

Butter
"We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of butter." Marauders of Gor, pg. 102, by John Norman.

Grunt eggs
"The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. The first wine, a light white wine, was being deferentially served by Pamela and Bonnie." Fighting Slave of Gor, pg. 275-76, by John Norman.

Kaiila milk
"Kaiila milk, which is used, like verr milk, by the people of the Tahari, is reddish, and has a strong salty taste, it contains much ferrous sulfate." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 71, by John Norman.

Vulo eggs
"Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan" SLave Girl of Gor, pg. 73, by John Norman.

Verr cheese
"...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, pg. 168, by John Norman.

Verr milk
"She was further discomfited by the fact that she was discovered by Aya, Farouk's slave woman, who was training her Aya was not pleased to find the girl hair tied by the tree, the bag of churned verr milk lying to one side in the dust Aya made clear her displeasure by striking the girl several times, before she could free herself, with her customary instrument of instruction, the knotted kaiila strap." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 90, by John Norman.

Fish/Seafood
Cosian Wingfish
"The blue, four-spined 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 delicacies of delicacies." Nomads of Gor, pg. 23, by John Norman.

Eel
"Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies." Magicians of Gor, pg. 428, by John Norman.

Mollusks
"I could hear the cry of sea birds, broad winged gulls, and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in th sand for tiny mollusks." Hunters of Gor, pg. 428, by John Norman.

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, pg. 301, by John Norman.

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, pg. 28, by John Norman.

Sorp
"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber lam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples." Nomads of Gor, pg. 20, by John Norman.

Tambler clam
"I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern Peoples." Nomads of Gor, pg. 20, by John Norman.

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, pg. 59, by John Norman.

Fruits
Apricot
"I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.

Berries
"..and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Cherries of Tyros
"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," Beasts of Gor, pg. 28, by John Norman.

Chokecherries
"In Kantasawi," he said, "the moon when the plums are red." This was the moon following the next moon, which is known variously as Takiyuhawi, the moon in which the tabuk rut, or Canpasapawi, the moon when the chokecherries are ripe. "Will this give you time to return to Kailia." Savages of Gor, pg. 253, by John Norman.

Dates
"A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 46, by John Norman.

Ka-la-na fruit
"Over there," I said, "are some Ka-la-na trees. Wait here and I'll gather some fruit." Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 96, by John Norman.

Larma fruit
"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, perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone." Players of Gor, pg. 267, by John Norman.

Larma
"She touched the imaginary larma to her body, caressing her swaying beauty with it, and then, eyes piteous, held her hands forth, as though begging me to accept the lush fruit. On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him... offering him fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 28, by John Norman.

Larma
"The larma is luscious. It has a rather hard said Hurtha ell but the shell is brittle and easily broken. Within, the fleshy endocarp, the fruit, is delicious, and very juicy." Renegade of Gor, pg. 437, by John Norman.

Melon
"Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres towards me." Tribesman of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.

Nuts
"To the oases caravans bring various goods, for example, rep-cloth, embroidered cloths, silks, rugs, silver, gold, jewelries, mirrors, kailiauk tusk, perfumes, hides, skins, feathers, precious woods, tools, needles, worked leather goods, salt, nuts and spices, jungle birds, prized as pets, weapons, rough woods, sheets of tin and copper, the tea of Bazi, wool from the bounding Hurt, decorated, beaded whips, female slaves, and may other forms of merchandise." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 7, by John Norman.

Olives
"The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought 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, pg. 168, by John Norman.

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, pg. 114, by John Norman.

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, pg. 27-8, by John Norman.

Pear
"In her hand there was a half of a yellow Gorean pear, the remains of a half moon of verr cheese imbedded in it." Explorers of Gor, pg. 6, by John Norman.

Plums
"I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.

Pomegranate
"Pomegranate orchards lie at the east of the oasis," I said. Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 174, by John Norman.

Raisins
"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." Tribersmen of Gor, pg. 47, by John Norman.

Ramberries
"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." aptive of Gor, pg. 305, by John Norman.

Ta grapes
"The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar." PriestKings of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.

Tospit
"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." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 19, by John Norman.

Meat
Bosk
"The meat was a steak cut from the loin, a juge 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 felsh hot and fat with juice." Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.

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, pg. 4, by John Norman.

Kailiauk
"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, pg. 50, by John Norman.

Qualae
"Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-coloured and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair." Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 140, by John Norman.

Sausage
"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous cannisters of flour, sugars and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments." Assassins of Gor, pg. 271, by John Norman.

Tabuk
"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, pg. 145, by John Norman.

Tarsk
"If I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests." Assassin of Gor, pg. 87, by John Norman.

Tumit
"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, pg. 2, by John Norman.

Verr
"The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horn." Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 6, by John Norman.

Vulo
"She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat" Nomads of Gor, pg. 1, by John Norman.

Miscellaneous
Honey
"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, pg. 81, by John Norman.

Honey Cake
"...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, pg. 143, by John Norman.

Mint Sticks
"On the tray, too, was the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter, from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers." Beasts of Gor, pg. 10, by John Norman.

Salt, red
"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, by John Norman.

Salt sea
"Salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or from the burning of seaweed. It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids." Marauders of Gor, pg. 187, by John Norman.

Salt, white
"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, by John Norman.

Salt, yellow
"It had been expected, I gathered, that I would sit at one of the two long side tables, and perhaps even below the bowls of red and yellow salt which divided these tables." Assassin of Gor, pg. 86, by John Norman

Sugar, white and yellow
"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, by John Norman.

Sugars, Four Gorean
Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of topsit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars." Rogue of Gor, pg. 132, by John Norman.

Tastas
"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, pg. 81, by John Norman.

Vegetables
Beans
..and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons. Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Carrots
"..and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties,.." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Corn/maize
"Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist within their domains, she said The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash." Savages of Gor, pg. 233, by John Norman.

Garlic
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man, his bundle like a giant's hump on his back." Outlaw of Gor, pg. 29, by John Norman.

Katch
"At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; beans, berries, onions tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, .. " Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Kess
"...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. 45, by John Norman.

Kort
"...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, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Mushroom
"Have a stuffed mushroom." Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 81, by John Norman.

Onions
"and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Peas
"The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought 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, pg. 168, by John Norman.

Peppers
"Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari 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, pg. 47, by John Norman.

Pumpkins
"Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist within their domains, she said The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash." Savages of Gor, pg. 233, by John Norman.

Radish
"and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes," Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37, by John Norman.

Squash
"Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist within their domains, she said The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash." Savages of Gor, pg. 233, by John Norman.

Sul
"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, pg. 80, by John Norman.

Sullage
"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 starchy, golden-brown, vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-pa, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchids 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. 45, by John Norman.

Turnips
"I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man, his bundle like a giant's hump on his back." Outlaw of Gor, pg. 29, by John Norman.

Tur pah
"The curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchids of Tur trees". Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 45, by John Norman.