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Fish and Seafood
DIR By: Jinxed
Date: August 11, 2022, 6:45 pm
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Fish and Seafood
A description of what they are, along with how served, and a
quote from the book
Some, may only contain a quote
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Bag Fish:
Quote:
"We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun,
"variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously
seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs. Too, consider the gifts
of the sea and shore, from four of my fishing villages, clams,
oysters, grunt, bag fish, song fish, shark, eels, octopus, wing
fish, parsit, squid." *Rebels of Gor, pg 208
Clams:
just like on earth
How it can be used:
a.) just like on earth
Quote:
"We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun,
"variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously
seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs. Too, consider the gifts
of the sea and shore, from four of my fishing villages, clams,
oysters, grunt, bag fish, song fish, shark, eels, octopus, wing
fish, parsit, squid." *Rebels of Gor, pg 208
"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
Crabs:
How it can be used:
a.) soups, stews
Quote:
Many were the savory odors which emerged from behind the screen,
from sauces, stews, and soups, rich with shoots, herbs, nuts,
spices, vegetables, and peppers, even tarsk and vulo, as well as
parsit, crabs, and grunt, emanating from pots brought in from
the central kitchens, which served the long tables, outside, the
barracks messes, the larger halls, and the smaller halls, such
as that of the Three Moons. *Mariners of Gor, pg 428
One could smell fish. The early boats had come in. Grunt and
parsit were strung between poles. Crabs were sold from baskets.
*Smugglers of Gor, pg 68
Eels:
a voracious animal which can main or kill a slave in moments.
some varieties are edible and considered a Gorean delicacy.
varieties include: river eel, black eel and the spotted eel.
How it can be used:
a.) fried or broiled -- meat has an oily taste
Quote:
It is perhaps a small thing to see on the belt of an artisan a
silver buckle of the style worn in mountainous Thentis or to
note the delicacy of dried eels from Port Kar in the
marketplace, but these things, small though they are, speak to
me of a new Tharna. *Outlaw of Gor, pg 248
One dish I recall was composed of the tongues of eels and was
sprinkled with flavored aphrodisiacs, *Assassin of Gor, pg 204
Eel Tongue:
Quote:
One dish I recall was composed of the tongues of eels and was
sprinkled with flavored aphrodisiacs, the latter however being
wasted on me as I spent, to Elizabeth's consternation, the night
lying on my side in great pain. *Assassin of Gor, pg 204
Dried Eels:
Quote:
It is perhaps a small thing to see on the belt of an artisan a
silver buckle of the style worn in mountainous Thentis or to
note the delicacy of dried eels from Port Kar in the
marketplace, but these things, small though they are, speak to
me of a new Tharna. *Outlaw of Gor, pg 248
Dried Fish:
Quote:
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods
which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels,
precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and
saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river
animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and
papers, root vegetables, dried fish, powdered medicines,
ointments, perfume and women, customarily plainer ones they do
not wish to keep for themselves; *Nomads of Gor, pg 57
She herself nibbled on a rence cake, watching me, and then on
some dried fish which she drew also from the wallet. *Raiders
of Gor, pg 34
Dried Parsit:
Quote:
Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold Sa-Tarna
porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish. *Marauders of Gor, pg
56
A number of slaves, too, some twenty or thirty, fastened
together by the neck, by a long rope, had been given bags of
water, bundles of dried parsit, sacks of rice, and such, to
convey to the ship. *Mariners of Gor, pg 408
Parsit:
thin silver fish with from the water of the North
Torvaldslanders. exported in barrels. similar to herring or
smelt of earth.
How it can be used:
a.) smoked
b.) dried
c.) pickled
d.) fried
e.) added raw to gruel
Quote:
The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing. 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.
. . .
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 27-28
The parsit current is the main eastward current above the polar
basin. It is called the parsit current for it is followed by
several varieties of migrating parsit, a small, narrow, usually
striped fish. *Beasts of Gor, pg 38
Smoked Parsit:
Quote:
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
Fish:
Quote:
Wandering in the city I found myself in Tharna's marketplace.
Though it was apparently a market day, judging from the numerous
stalls of vegetables, the racks of meat under awnings, the tubs
of salted fish, the cloths and trinkets spread out on carpets
before the seated, crosslegged merchants, there was none of the
noisy clamor that customarily attends the Gorean market.
*Outlaw of Gor, pg 67
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 a 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 in the
midst of what was, had they known it, an almost endless
abundance of food. *Raiders of Gor, pg 7
Fried Fish:
Quote:
I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays
of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks,
and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times
replenished, of rence beer. *Raiders of Gor, pg 44
Smoked Fish:
Quote:
They removed the silken covers and we noted the hampers were
heaped with fruits, vegetables, cakes of rice, smoked fish,
layers of dried, salted meat, and stoppered vessels which I
supposed might contain sake, and perhaps, considering the
continental mercenaries in the camp, none of whom had been
permitted, save myself, to attend these proceedings, paga and
ka-la-na. *Rebels of Gor, pg 55
Grunt, White-bellied:
large game fish, white bellied, from the cold waters of the
North.
How it can be used:
a.) poached, baked or fried
Quote:
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
Half out of the water, then returning to it, I saw a great
speckled grunt, four-gilled. It dove, and swirled away. Another
man came to help with the line. I observed the struggle. One
often fishes from the ships on Thassa, and the diet of the
sailors consists, in part, of the catch. Part of each catch is
commonly saved, to serve as bait for the next.
I cried out with fear. One of the men shouted with anger. Rising
from under the grunt swiftly was a long-bodied shark, white,
nine-gilled. It tore the grunt from the line and bore it away.
Other dorsal fins, of smaller sharks, trailed it, waiting.
Sharks, and sometimes marine saurians, sometimes trail the
ships, to secure discarded garbage and rob the lines of the
fishermen. *Slave Girl of Gor, pg 359-360
Eggs of the white grunt (Caviar):
tiny eggs of the white grunt. like caviar on earth.
How it is used:
a.) served with slices of tospit and larma in a tiny dish,
usually served over ice
Quote:
Before each guests 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.
Fighting Slave of Gor, pg 275-276
Lelt:
Quote:
"Why did you not eat it?" asked the man near me.
I shrugged. Some salt slaves eat the lelt, raw, taken from the
water, or gleaned from their harvesting vessels. The first bite
is taken behind the back of the neck. *Tribesmen of Gor, pg 256
Marsh Shark:
How it is used:
a.) served as fillets or steaks
Quote:
We could see the black dorsal fin of the marsh shark about
thirty to forty feet off, in the open water. It moved slowly
about, out there. Occasionally, too, we saw the tip of its
sicklelike tail cut the water, and saw the water stirring about
its body.
. . .
The shark lay in the camp, among us, the rope by which it had
been dragged to this location still on its tail.
. . .
A fellow nearby was sharpening a knife on a whetstone. It was
his turn, as I recalled, to cut the meat. *Vagabonds of Gor, pg
325-328
Northern Shark:
Quote:
The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of
various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and
four varieties of sea sleen. Their fishing and hunting were
seasonal, and depended on the animals. Sometimes they managed to
secure the northern shark, *Beasts of Gor, pg 36
Octopus:
Quote:
"We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun,
"variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously
seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs. Too, consider the gifts
of the sea and shore, from four of my fishing villages, clams,
oysters, grunt, bag fish, song fish, shark, eels, octopus, wing
fish, parsit, squid." *Rebels of Gor, pg 208
Oysters:
similar to earth oysters. from the Delta or the Vosk.
How it can be used:
a.) steamed, fried, baked or in stuffing
Quote:
Rask of Treve threw the girl one of the oysters, from a silver
plate on the low, wooden table. *Captive of Gor, pg 302
"We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun,
"variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously
seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs. Too, consider the gifts
of the sea and shore, from four of my fishing villages, clams,
oysters, grunt, bag fish, song fish, shark, eels, octopus, wing
fish, parsit, squid." *Rebels of Gor, pg 208
Salted Fish:
Quote:
Though it was apparently a market day, judging from the numerous
stalls of vegetables, the racks of meat under awnings, the tubs
of salted fish, the cloths and trinkets spread out on carpets
before the seated, crosslegged merchants, there was none of the
noisy clamor that customarily attends the Gorean market.
*Outlaw of Gor, pg 67
Tied in the canoe itself was a long, cylindrical basket of
strips of salted, dried fish. *Explorers of Gor, pg 268
Sea Sleen:
Quote:
"I think not," said Samos. "Their winter stores of food, from
the ice hunting, will last them for a time. Then they must hunt
elsewhere. Perhaps some can live by fishing until the fall, and
the return of the black sea sleen."
The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of
various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and
four varieties of sea sleen.
. . .
The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the
black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the
flat-nosed sleen. *Beasts of Gor, pg 36-38
Snails:
similar to Earth snails, though a bit larger.
How it can be used:
a.) prepared as snails on earth
Quote:
"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, pg 62
Song Fish:
Quote:
I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish.
This is a small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender
spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. It is called the
wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short
distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee
small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the
spines. It is also called a songfish, because, in their
courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the
water, uttering a kind of whistle. Their livers are regarded as
a delicacy. *Raiders of Gor, pg 139
"We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun,
"variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously
seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs. Too, consider the gifts
of the sea and shore, from four of my fishing villages, clams,
oysters, grunt, bag fish, song fish, shark, eels, octopus, wing
fish, parsit, squid." *Rebels of Gor, pg 208
Squid:
Quote:
"We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun,
"variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously
seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs. Too, consider the gifts
of the sea and shore, from four of my fishing villages, clams,
oysters, grunt, bag fish, song fish, shark, eels, octopus, wing
fish, parsit, squid." *Rebels of Gor, pg 208
Sorp:
A shellfish, common in the Vosk river, similar to an Earth
oyster; like an oyster, it manufactures pearls.
How it can be used:
a.) used in stews, soups
b.) raw, steamed, smoked
Quote:
This can be served in a variety of ways including raw, steamed,
or smoked, or in a thick fish stew. When serving raw, the
mollusk should be placed within the half shell, which are seated
on a bed of colored salt. When steamed or smoked, the same
serving style can be used or the shelled mollusk can be served
upon a platter lined with greens. The stew is served in the
traditional footed clay bowl with handles and is meant to be
drunk rather than spooned by the Warrior.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
Wingfish:
small blue fish with poisonous spines on the dorsal fin. its
liver is a delicacy. sometimes referred to as the songfish.
How it can be used:
a.) roasted
b.) wingfish liver
c.) fried or baked
Quote:
I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish.
This is a small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender
spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. It is called the
wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short
distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee
small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the
spines. It is also called a songfish, because, in their
courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the
water, uttering a kind of whistle. Their livers are regarded as
a delicacy. *Raiders of Gor, pg 139
Whale:
Quote:
The men of the country of Ax Glacier fish for whales and hunt
snow sleen. *Marauders of Gor, pg 139
Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the
animals. Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark,
sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl
whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale. *Beasts of Gor, pg
36
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