Menu |
Meats: |
Bosk: This animal closely resembles the Yak of Earth and is used for many things on Gor. It can be served roasted and sliced or as steaks. The milk of the Bosk is very drinkable and can be used to make cheese and churned for butter. Tabuk: The Tabuk is described as a one horned, yellowish antelope. The meat is then grilled Tarsk: This meat is roasted. One way to prepare it, is stuffed with Suls and Peppers. It can be sliced thin and served as bacon. The Tarsk is a pig like animal. |
Poultry: |
Tumits: A large carnivorous bird of the plains. It is hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos and the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night. Vulo: A small pigeon-like bird. Can be cooked and eaten. The very small eggs are cooked for the breakfast meal by frying them in a large, flat pan. Takes several birds or many eggs to make a meal. Served roasted and spiced. |
Seafood: |
Cosian Wingfish So called for its ability to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. Its livers are considered a delicacy. Marsh Shark Transported from the marshes, marsh shark is served as filets or shark steaks Parsit Fish Slender striped fish, can be fried, baked or broiled Salt Thassa Fish Salt Thassa Fish is just that, a small fish from the gleeming Thassa, served baked or broiled. Tamber Gulf Oysters From the Tamber Gulf, these oysters are served raw or baked. Vosk Carp Vosk carp is a carp fish from the river Vosk. It is served baked, fried, or broiled. Vosk Sorp Vosk Sorp is a shellfish similar to the Urthen oyster. Like an oyster, it manufactures pearls. It is often used in making soups and stews. |
Accompaniments & Breads |
Black Bread Baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains. It is heavy and dark in color and served with clotted Bosk cream or honey. Sa-Tarna A grain, yellow in color. It is a staple of Gor. It is brewed into paga and it is also ground and used to bake the Sa-Tarna bread. Sa-Tarna Bread Also known as Yellow Bread. It is staple food in every Gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into six sections Sa-Tarna Gruel A thick paste of boiled sa-tarna. Also known as bond-maid gruel or slave porridge. |
Vegetables & side dishes |
Butter Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr Cheese Made from the milk of the Bosk or Verr. Katch Foliated leaf vegetable similar to Urthen lettuce. Kort A large, brownish, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width. The flesh of which is yellowish, fibrous, and heavily seeded. Served Sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. Olives These are commonly from the city of Tor. They are referred to as Torian Olives. Peas These are mentioned as a menu item but not described Red Olives These come from the groves of Tyros. Rence A water plant. Its grain is eaten, 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 be fried into a type of pancake. Sul Golden brown. Starchy. Tuberous root of the Sul plant (Not unlike the potatoes of Urth). One way of serving it is to break it open and fill it with melted Bosk cheese. Sullage A soup made prinicipally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy. Tur-Pah An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves that grows on the tur tree. |
Fruits |
Celane Melon Similar to Urthen honeydew melon, it is served chilled and sliced Dates These come from the City of Tor Larma Fruit A sweet fruit.* if a slave offeres a peice of Larma fruit, that hasnt been requested by a Master or Mistress it means that she wants to be used sexually. *it means nothing however if the Master or Mistress requests it from the slave Ram-berries Small and succulent berries. Redfruit Similar in flesh and taste to apples of Urth origins Ta-Grapes Large, sweet and seedless grapes, imported from Tyros Tospits: The tospit is yellow in color. Small, peach-like fruit that is about the size of a plum. They are bitter, but edible. Often, they are dried and candied |
Sweets: |
Chocolate This is the same as the chocolate of Urth, made from the beans brought back on one of the Voyages of Acquisition.You may find chocolate in higher-class establishments. It is served hot and in a mug. Sugar White Sugar is made from fruits and the Yellow Sugar from the juices of crushed cane stalks. |
Beverages &Ales |
Ale Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer. It is deep in color and usually served in a tankard, additionally served in a goblet. (can be served warm or chilled) Meade A light coloured, honied Ale, served in a tankard or as common in Torvaldsland, in a large horn. Usually served chilled, but may be served warm or room tempature. |
Coffee type Drinks |
Black Wine This is the same as the coffee of Earth, made from the beans brought back on one of the earlier Voyages of Acquisition. It is served hot in a mug. Bosk milk or cream may be added as well as sweetened with Yellow and White sugars may be added (first slave). Black Wine can also be served plain (second slave) |
Milk |
Bosk Milk Milk from the Bosk, it is rich, thick, and sweet. served in goblets Sand Kaiila Milk Milk from the Sand Kaiila. It is reddish and salty and high in ferrous sulfate |
Other |
Larma Juice Juice made from the Larma Fruit "I purchased her some larma juice, for a task bit."--- Mercenaries of Gor page 257 Water Water drawn from the springs or wells. served in a goblet. |
Potent Potables |
Sa-Tarna Paga Usually known as paga. It is brewed from the grain of Sa-Tarna and is similar to Urthen whiskey It symbolizes physical love (lust). It is served in a footed bowl. Sul Paga It is brewed from the Sul. Sul paga is a clear, lumpy drink, very strong and similar to Urthen vodka. It also symbolizes physical love (lust). It is served in a footed bowl. |
Teas |
Bazi-Tea A beverage of leaves steeped in hot water. The tea from Bazi is very much like the orange pekoe of Earth. It is served in higher-class establishments. It is heavily sugared and served in three small cups, and traditionally drunk one at a time and in rapid succession. There is an online myth of the serving of this beverage. In some homes the beverage is steeped in tradition, and must be served with great ceremony. However in the books it is merely served as any other tea. |
Wines |
Breeding Wine A sweet beverage which counteracts the effects of slave wine, making a slavegirl fertile; also called second wine Ka-la-na A sweet, strong red wine, made from the fruit of the ka-la-na plants. Some of the best comes from thecity of Ar. This drink symbolizes romantic love. It is served, chilled or warm, in a goblet. An example of an expensive ka-la-na is from the Vintners "Slave Gardens of Anesidemus" It is described as a marvelous ka-la-na however very expensive. "A small bottle," I said, "of the Slave Gardens of Anesidemus." "I have heard that is a marvelous ka-la-na," said the free woman, her eyes alight. "So too, have I," I said. "It is very expensive," said the woman. Mercenaries of Gor pages 344-345 Kalda A beverage generally served hot from copper kettles. It is cheap Ka-la-na wine mixed with citrus juices, such as tospit and larma, and hot spices. Served like beer, it is cheap and tastes good.. until you get to the bottom of the kettle! It is served in a mug Mulled Ka-la-na Heated ka-la-na, with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of ka-la-na fruit or tospit served in a goblet Slave Wine Watered down sweetened ka-la-na. Brewed from bitter herbs such as the Sip root. Acts as a contraceptive. It is drunk usually once a year, mainly for symbolic purposes, as it has been modified by the Caste of Physicans to make it effective until the ingestion of a realeaser, the breeding wine. Usually the slave has to be forced to drink this bitter drink Ta-Wine A dry wine made from grapes, served at room temperature, in a goblet |