Foods of Gor
MEAT
FRUIT and VEGETABLES
OTHER FOODS:
Quotes on food
MEAT
- Bosk: This animal closely resembles a Yak of Urth, used for many things on Gor. 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.
- Cosian Wingfish: Called so for its ability to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. Its livers are considered a delicacy.
- Marsh Shark: Served as filets or shark steaks, or as a fin soup.
- Oysters: no description given
- Parsit Fish: Slender, striped.
- Salt Thassa Fish: Baked/broiled.
- Sorp: A shellfish, common mainly in the Vosk River, similar to oysters of Earth.
- Tarsk: This meat is roasted. On way to prepare it is stuffed with Suls and Peppers from the City of Tor.
- Tabuk Steak: One-horned yellowish antelope/elk, roasted, grilled or charred to order - served with baked sul and sa-tarna bread.
- Tumit: Served baked. Large carnivorous flightless birds.. The size of an earthen ostrich.
- Tree Urt: Possum/wild rat, baked and stuffed.
- Verr: A goat-like animal. The meat can be eaten. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter.
- Vulos Baked: Similar to a pigeon, stuffed with herbs and grains - served with fried larma and sa-tarna bread
- 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.
FRUIT and VEGETABLES
- Celane Melon: A Melon akin to a honeydew
- Dates: These come from the City of Tor.
- Ka-la-na: Fruit much like a pear; it is also rendered and distilled into a sweet wine.
- Kes: a sharp whose salty, blue secondary roots are main ingredient in sullage.
- Kort: A rinded fruit of Tahari, similar to Earth melon; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.
- Larma Fruit: A sweet succulent fruit, rather like an apple, either as is or sliced and fried, served with browned-honey sauce; offering larma, real or imagined, by a slavegirl to her Master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped. (A special note -serving a Master this fruit from the lips is a clear signal to the Master that a slave wishes to be used by the Master and used roughly.)
- Merlot Grapes: Seeded grapes, eaten off the vine, or made into wine
- Olives red: come from the groves of Tyros.
- Olives: commonly from the City of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives.
- Peas: mentioned as a menu item, but not described.
- Plums: no description
- Raisins: no description
- Ram-Berries: Small, succulent purple berries.
- Redfruit: Similar in flesh and taste to apples of earth origins.
- Rence: A green, similar to fern or spinach...water plant, the grain s eaten...the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth...The grain may be broiled or ground into a paste... this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake.
- Sul: Golden brown. Starchy, vine-borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage. Tuberous root of the Sul Plant (closely resembling and tasting like the potato on Earth); often served sliced and fried. (Cross between a potato and onion) One way of serving is to break it open and fill it with melted Bosk cheese. Can be distilled into the drink called paga.
- Ta-Grapes: Rare, big and sweet seedless grapes. Only Masters may eat them. (Similar to earth grapes comes from the Isle of Cos.)
- Tospit: The tospit is yellow in color... small, peach-like fruit that is about the size of a plum. They are bitter raw, like a sour tangerine, but edible. Often dried, and candied.
- Tur-Pah: This is an unknown type of vegetable.
OTHER FOODS:
- Black Bread: Baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted Bosk cream or honey.
- Butter: Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.
- Cheese: Pressed from the milk of the bosk they are sharp in taste and travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds. Can be made from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.
- Salt: red or white
- Sa-Tarna: A grain, yellow in color. It is a staple of Gor. It is brewed into Paga. It is also ground and used to bake the Sa-Tarna Bread that is a staple food at every Gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into six sections. (like wheat)
- Sa-Tarna Bread or Yellow Bread: Freshly baked from sa-tarna grain. Baked in rounded loaves with yeast, or as round, flat loaves similar to Indian/Afghan breads of baked sa-tarna meal.
- Sa-Tarna: Baked goods- muffins, cakes, fruit cobblers, or griddle cakes for breakfast.
- Sa-Tarna Gruel: Thick paste of boiled sa-tarna, like porridge, served with dried merlot grapes.
- 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.
- Sugar: Yellow and white.
- Sullage: A soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy. Baked or pickled, like cabbage.
Quotes on food
- At my father’s insistence, I began to eat, reluctantly, never taking my eyes from him, hardly tasting the food, which was simple but excellent. The meat reminded me of venison; it was not the meat of an animal raised on domestic grains. It had been roasted over an open flame. The bread was still hot from the oven. The fruit - - grapes and peaches of some sort - - was fresh and cold as mountain snow
- From Tarnsman of Gor. P 22
- Sa-Tarna Bread
- then, while the other fellow took his place on the wagon box and started the ponderous draft beast into motion, he gave me two generous pieces of bread, two full wedges of Sa-Tarna bread, a fourth of a loaf. Such bread is usually baked in small, round loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. Some smaller loaves are divided into four divisions. This division are a function, presumably, of their simplicity, the ease with which they may be made, the ease with which, even without explicit measurement, equalities may be produced.
- From Kajira of Gor. P 216
- Bosk
- Though similar in build to the Yak of earth the Bosk bears the heavier form of the buffalo of earth and like him, provides, food, leather and many of the needs of the people of Gor. The meat may be roasted or broiled, dried, stewed or served in a myriad of ways.
- From Nomads of Gor. p 4
- Slave Gruel
- Durbar left. In a few moments he returned with a small wooden bowl filled with dried, precooked meal. He poured some water into this. I was then handed the bowl.” Mix it with your fingers," said the first man. 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.
- From Kajira of Gor. P 257
- Larma
- "I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded, apple like 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."
- From Players of Gor. P 267
- "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. Sometimes, when a woman is referred to as a `larma,' it is suggested that her hard or frigid exterior conceals a rather different sort of interior, one likely to be quite delicious."
- From Renegades of Gor. p 437
- Cosian Whitefish
- the wingfish is a tiny blue salt-water fish with 3- 4 slender poisonous spines on its dorsal fin. Its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
- From Nomads of Gor.p 84
- Tumit
- A large flightless carnivorous bird, about the size of an ostrich, having an 18'-long hooked beak. It is often eaten by the Nomads of Gor.
- From Nomads of Gor. p 2
- Salt - White & 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."
- From Tribesmen of Gor. p 238
- "Suls, Turpah, Vangis!" I heard a woman call, sitting amidst baskets, hawking her produce.
- Sand Kaiila Milk
- Reddish and salty. High in ferrous sulfate.
- From Tribesmen of Gor. p ????
- Oysters
- Mentioned but no description given
- From Captive of Gor Pg301
- Pemmican
- Mentioned frequently but no description given
- From Blood Brothers of Gor Pg 268
- Katch
- A leafy vegetable
- From Tribesmen of Gor. p 37
- Raisins / Plums
- Mentioned in Kajira of Gor, p216 but no description given.
- From Kajira of Gor. P 314
- "I have peas, and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut," said the man
- From Outlaw of Gor. P 29.