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Foods of Gor
By: kharma Date: January 9, 2014, 1:17 am
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Foods of Gor
Apricot
Presumably identical to an Earth apricot
I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. Come with me
to the cafe of Red Cages, said a boy, pulling at my sleeve.”
~ Tribesman of Gor page 45
Arctic Gant Eggs
Eggs of the migratory Arctic gant; when frozen, they are eaten
like apples.
“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 mountain 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 page 196
Beans
No description
“Initiates do not eat meat, or beans. They are trained in the
mysteries of mathematics. They converse among themselves in
archaic Gorean, which is no longer spoken among the people.”
~ Marauders of Gor page 81
Biscuits
A dried pressed biscuit described as baked in Kailiauk from
Sa-Tarna flour.
“...Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried,
pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour.”
~ Savages of Gor page 328
Black Bread
Baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark,
served with clotted Bosk Cream or honey.
“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 page 13
Bond-Maid Gruel
A porridge served to bond-maids in Torvaldsland made of damp
Sa-Tarna and raw fish.
“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 page 67
Bosk
Large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow;
served as beef is served.
“The meat was a steak, cut from the loin of a bosk, a huge,
shaggy, long-horned, ill-tempered bovine which shambles in
large, slow-moving herds across the prairies of Gor.”
~ Priest Kings of Gor page 45
Butter
Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.
“"Olga," he said, "there is butter to be churning in the
churning shed.” ~ Marauders of Gor page 81
Cabbages
No description given
“...too, there would be peas, and beans, cabbages and onions,
and patches of the golden sul, capable of sur-viving at this
latitude. 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
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.
“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 then the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up,
deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten.” -
Dancer of Gor p 81 ( also see below Mint Sticks)
Cheese
Pressed from the milk of the Bosk they are sharp in taste and
travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds.
“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 page 168
Cherries
Grown in Tyros.
"It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said. "I do not know
what the flavor is," she said, "but it is lovely, is it not?"
"Yes," I said.” ~ Beasts of Gor page 349
Cosian Wingfish
Also known as songfish due to its whistling mating song; a tiny
blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin;
found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a
delicacy in Turia.
“"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.”
~ Nomads of Gor page 84-85
Dates
These come from the City of Tor; 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.
“The principal export of the oases is dates and pressed-date
bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet
high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They
will then yield fruit for more than a century.” ~ Tribesman of
Gor page 46
Eel
A voracious animal which can maim or kill a slave in moments.
Some varieties are edible and considered a gorean delicacy.
Varieties include: river eel, black eel, and spotted eel.
“Many estates, particularly country homes, have pools in which
fish are kept. Some of these pools contains voracious eels, of
various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and
such, which are Gorean delicacies.” ~ Magicians of Gor page 428
Eggs
Usually vulo eggs.. but there are many varieties available
depending on the region.
She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos,
domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.
~ Nomads of Gor page 1
Fish, Parsit
A silvery fish having brown stripes, they follow the 'parsit
current' in the polar basin. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and
dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south.
“The slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north
of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and the
fall, be taken in great numbers. The smell of the fish-drying
sheds of Kassau carries far out to sea.” ~ Marauders of Gor page
27 (references also on pages 56, 63 and 64)
Garlic
Not described in detail
“"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 page 29
Grunts
Great Speckled - a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food
for sailors.
“Half out of the water, then returning to it, I saw a great
speckled grunt, four-gilled. It dove, and swirled away.” ~ Slave
Girl of Gor page 360
White-bellied
a large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar
North to feed on parsit fish. It's eggs are considered a rare
delicacy.. like caviar.
“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
No description given.. just that honey bees are raised.
“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 leaf vegetable similar to lettuce.
“...a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch,..” ~ Tribesmen of
Gor page 37
Kes Shrub
A shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient
in sullage.
“...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
Often served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg, a large,
brownish-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable of the Tahari usually
some 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish, fibrous and
heavily seeded.
“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 page 37
Larma
They come in two types: juicy - a segmented, succulent fruit,
and hard, rather like an apple, having one pit, commonly called
the pit fruit, it is sometimes sliced and fried, and served with
browned honey sauce; offering a larma, real or imagined, by a
slave girl to her master is a silent plea for the girl to be
raped.
“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 page 267
Melons
Yellowish, red-striped spheres.
“"Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the
yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me.” ~ Tribesmen of Gor
page 45
Mint Sticks
Just mentioned as tiny mint sticks in a bowl
“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.” ~ Explorers of Gor page 10
Mushrooms
No description given
“I am an Alar,” Hurtha explained. “Have a stuffed mushroom.” I
pondered the likely prices of a stuffed mushroom in a
black-market transaction in a war-torn district,..” ~
Mercenaries of Gor page 82
Olives
Are commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian
Olives); also Red Olives which come from the groves of Tyros.
“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
Onions
No description given
“...cabbages and onions, and patches of the golden sul...”
~ Marauders of Gor page 81
Oysters
From the Vosk Delta
“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 page 301
Pastries
No specific mention
“Before each guests there were tiny slices of tospit and larma,
small pastries ...” ~ Fighting Slave of Gor page 276
Peas
These are mentioned as a menu item, though not described
“In them were growing, small at this season, shafts ol Sa-Tarna;
too, there would be peas, and beans, cabbages and onions ...”
Marauders of Gor page 81
Peppers
Not described
“Telima had prepared a roast tarsk, stuffed with suls and
peppers from Tor.” ~ Raiders of Gor page 113
Radishes
Not described in detail
“Ottar dug for the Forkbeard and my-self two radishes and we,
wiping the dirt from them, ate them.” ~ Marauders of Gor page
102
Ramberry
Small, succulent berries.
"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, page 305
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Re: Foods of Gor
By: kharma Date: January 9, 2014, 1:18 am
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Rence
A water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and
pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The pith may be boiled
or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be
fried into a type of pancake.
The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the
manufacture of rence paper. The root, which is woody and heavy,
is used for certain wooden tools and utensils, which can be
carved from it; also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; from the
stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords
and the kind of fibrous cloth; further, its pith is edible, and
for the rence growers is, with fish, a staple in their diet; the
pith is edible both raw and cooked; some men, lost in the delta,
not knowing the pith edible, have died of starvation the the
midst of what was, had they known it, an almost endless
abundance of food.” ~ Raiders of Gor page 7
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.” ~ Tribesman of Gor
page 238
Also there are references to yellow salt as 'of the south' and
on a table exist, but no other description has been found.
“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 page 86
Sa-Tarna
Grain, specifically wheat, yellow, usually described as being
cut in wedges
“There were great quantities of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread, in
its rounded, six-part loaves.” ~ Raiders of Gor page 114
Sa-Tassna
Meat; food in general.
“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 page
43
Slave Porridge
A cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which
slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel',
and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish.
“One of the smiths from below was summoned with a bowl of slave
porridge, which he mixed half with water, and stirred well, so
that it could be drunk. There are various porridges given to
slaves and they differ. The porridges in the iron pens, however,
are as ugly and tasteless a gruel, and deliberately so, as might
be imagined.” ~ Assassin of Gor page 126
Snail
Much like the snails on Earth these are small slug-like
creatures living inside of thin shells in the waters. often they
are trapped with water inside the bilge of a ship.
“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 page 62
Sorp
A shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster
“"They are probably false stones," 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. "They are probably false stones," 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 page 20
Sugar
White and yellow are commonly used
“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.” ~ Tribesmen of Gor page 89
Sul
Starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit; principal ingredient in
sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often
served sliced and fried.
“The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the
starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul
plant.” ~ Priest Kings of Gor ch 6
Sullage
A soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with
whatever else may be handy.
“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.” ~ Priest Kings of Gor page 44
Tabuk
Swift gazelle like animals known for their sweet meat and speed,
the Tabuk is generally served roasted.
“Once I brought the carcass of a tabuk, one of Gor's
single-horned, yellow antelopes, which I had felled in a
Ka-la-na thicket, to the hut of a peasant and his wife.” ~
Outlaw of Gor page 76
“The tabuk is the most common Gorean antelope, a small graceful
animal, one-horned and yellow, that haunts the Ka- la-na
thickets of the planet and occasionally ventures daintily into
its meadows in search of berries and salt.” ~ Outlaw of Gor page
126
Ta Grapes
Purple fruit similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos.
“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. I had tasted some only once before,
having been introduced to them in a feast given in my honor by
Lara, who was Tatrix of the city of Tharna.” ~ Priest-Kings of
Gor page 45
Tarsk
Porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane
which runs down its spine to the base of the tail, often roasted
whole.
“Still later that afternoon some groups of small, fat, grunting,
bristly, brindled, shaggy-maned, hoofed, flat-snouted, rooting
animals had been herded in, also with pointed sticks, and they,
too, had been guided into identical cages. We had looked out of
our cage, our fingers hooked in the mesh, to other cages, some
of them with girls in them, some with the fat, flat-snouted,
grunting, short-legged, brindled quadrupeds. "Those are tarsks,"
said one of the Gorean girls.” ~ Dancer of Gor page 108
Tumits
A large carnivorous bird of the plains, is 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.
“...beyond them I saw one of the tumits, a large, flightless
bird whose hooked beak, as long as my forearm, attested only too
clearly to its gustatory habits;” ~ Nomads of Gor page 2
Tospit
Yellowish-white fruit: like an Earth peach. They are bitter but
edible, and are sometimes served sliced and sweetened with
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. They almost always have an odd
number of seeds, except for the rare, long-stemmed ones. The
Wagon People often bet on the number of seeds.
“...on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small,
wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a
plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are
indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are
bitter but edible.” ~ Nomads of Gor page 59
Turnip
Grown on the oasis of the Tahari
“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, onions tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated
leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such
as turnips, carrots, radishes..” ~ Tribesmen of Gor p 37
Tur-pah
An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on
the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage.
“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-Pah, a tree
parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees,...”
~ Priest Kings of Gor page 45.
Vulo
A tawny-colored bird, similar to a pigeon, exists in the wild;
used for meat and eggs.
“She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos,
domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat.” ~ Nomads of Gor
page 1
“Behind them another four haruspexes, one from each People,
carried a large wooden cage, made of sticks lashed together,
which contained perhaps a dozen white vulos, domesticated
pigeons.” ~ Nomads of Gor page 84
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