~MAIN FOODS OF GOR~
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FRUITS | |||
| _ | smuggled from earth. | "I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices." TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 45 |
_ | Similar to Earths. | "I felt the pull of a strap on my throat, and opened my eyes. By a long leather strap, some ten feet in length, I was fastened by the neck to Ute. We were picking berries." CAPTIVE OF GOR, Pg. 208 |
_ | smuggled from earth. | -No quote found in the books for this specific berry- | _ | _ | similar to earth honeydew melon or cantelope, it is served chilled and sliced. | -No quote found in the books- | _ | _ | small, little sweet fruits of a red color, which come from Tyros. | "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said." BEAST OF GOR, page 349. |
_ | _ | grown in the barrens, this red colored fruit was brought to the city and grown there. | "Crushed fruit, usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat." BLOOD BROTHERS OF GOR, page 46. |
_ | _ | small, little sweet fruits of a brownish color, which come from the City of Tor. | "The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks." TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 37 |
_ | _ | a sweet yellow fruit, grown on trees and used in a variety of ways. | "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. 62. |
_ | _ | Similar to the juicy larma, this is apple-like with a tough skin. | "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, Pg. 267 |
_ | _ | a sweet, juicy fruit (similar to a pear). | Lastly, as the culmination of Ar’s Planting Feast, and of the greatest importance to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, a member of the Ubar’s family goes to the roof at night, under the three full moons with which the feast is correlated, and casts grain upon the stone and drops of a red, winelike drink made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. The member of the Ubar’s family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards of the Home Stone resume their vigil.” TARNSMAN OF GOR, Pg. 68 |
_ | _ | Succulent fruit, rather like an apple. A sweet fruit. It is served sliced, either fresh or fried, and served with browned honey sauce. The act of offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her Master(when he not specifically requested one) is often regarded as a silent plea by a slave when they wish to be "used" by that Master or Mistress sexually. | "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." RENEGADES OF GOR, Pg. 437 |
_ | _ | In existence in many varieties. | "Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me." TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 45 |
_ | _ | Slightly smaller than the earth variety but just as sweet. Can be dried for long journeys and made into pies or tarts. | "On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion, to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood…. 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. 27-28 |
_ | _ | brought from earth. | "I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums." TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 45 |
_ | _ | fleshy red fruit with segments that is used for making marinades for meats and liqueurs. | "Pomegranate orchards lie at the east of the oasis." I said. TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 174. |
_ | _ | similar to earth raisins. | "vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 45 | _ | _ | 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, Pg. 305 |
_ | _ | large, sweet and seedless grapes, imported from Tyros. Pitted, should be sliced and skinned in front of the Master/Mistress. | "The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos..." PRIEST-KINGS OF GOR, Pg. 45 | _ | _ | 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.A bitter, juicy citrus fruit yellowish in color, somewhat similar to earth's small tangerine. | "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." NOMADS OF GOR, Pg. 149 |
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VEGETABLES | |||
| _ | as earth beans. | "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..." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 37. |
_ | grown at the oasis. | "...and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties..." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 37. |
_ | a staple of the red savages, known as "Wagmu", Corn is grown in the barrens. | "They grow produce for their masters, such as
wagmeza and wagmu, maize, or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash." SAVAGES OF GOR, page 234. |
_ | dual purpose vegetable, these long, yellow gourds can be eaten, and the shells used for water vessels. | "Then she took a long draught of water from a yellow, curved gourd… she put the plug, carved from gourd stem, back in the gourd, and replaced it in the corner." RAIDERS OF GOR, Pg. 34. |
_ | foliated leaf vegetable. | "....various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch..." TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 37. |
_ | _ | foliated leaf vegetable similar to earth lettuce. | TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 37. |
_ | _ | a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are an ingredient in sullage. | "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul,...the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub..." PRIEST-KINGS OF GOR, Pg. 45. |
_ | _ | 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, a fruit of the Tahari. | "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. At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year." TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pg. 37 |
_ | thos in Torvaldsland would eat licen when there wasn't enough food available. | "There is often not enough food under any conditions, particularly In northern Torvaldsland, and famine is not known. In such cases men feed on bark, and lichens and seaweed." MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 55. |
_ | grown in the barrens communities, this is corn and known as "Wagmeza". | "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. 234. |
_ | _ | what the slaves of the Priest-Kings ate. | "It is not hard to get used to the mul-fungus, for it has almost no taste, being and extremely bland, pale, whitish, vegetablelike matter." PRIEST-KINGS OF GOR, Pg. 109 |
_ | _ | These are commonly from the city of Tor. They are often known as Torian olives. | "The Tarn Keeper...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. |
_ | _ | imported from earth. | "...who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough. OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 155 |
_ | _ | These are mentioned as a menu item, but not described. | "The Tarn Keeper...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. |
_ | _ | imported from earth. | 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. TRIBESMAN OF GOR, Pgs. 47-48 | _ | _ | imported from earth. | "'Dorna the Proud,' said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough. OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 155 |
_ | more than likely similar to the earth pumpkin, this was grown in the barrens communities. | "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. 234. |
_ | like the earth vegetable, but grown on Gorean oasis. | "'Dorna the Proud,' said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough. OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 155 |
_ | _ | these 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, Pg. 114. |
_ | when hungry and food was low, those in northern Torvaldsland fed on this. | "There is often not enough food under any conditions, particularly in northern Torvaldsland, and famine is not known. In such cases men feed on bark, and lichens and seaweed." MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 55. |
_ | grown in the barrens communities, this is a gourd-like vegetable. | "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. 234. |
_ | _ | A tuberous root, vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried. Starchy, with a bland flavor, golden brown, principal ingredient in sullage, often served sliced and fried. One way of serving is to break it open and fill it with melted bosk cheese, topped with soured bosk cream. Can be distilled into the drink called paga. | "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 |
_ | similar to earth vegetable, grown on the Gorean oasis. | "'Dorna the Proud,' said the slave, who tumbled onions, turnips, radishes, potatoes and bread into the feed trough. OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 155 |
_ | _ | an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves that grows on the Tur tree. | "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 the host orchards of the 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. |
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MEAT | |||
| _ | Eggs of the Gant, eaten frozen. | "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 mountains of the Hrimgar and in stepp, 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 |
_ | _ | this animal closely resembles the cattle 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 sweet and good and is used to make cheese and churned for butter. | "Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies;..." |
_ | _ | called so for its ability to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. Its liver is considered a delicacy. | "Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish." NOMADS OF GOR, Pg. 84. | _ | _ | Usually dried before eating, this long thin fish live in the sea. | "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. | _ | _ | Water fowl that is the staple of the rencers of the Vosk Delta usually served roasted. | "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. | _ | _ | Normally eaten only when one is starving or without any other food, insects provide a lot of protein to the diet. | "'I have fled from those men for six days,' wept the girl, 'living on berries and insects, sleeping in ditches, hiding, running.'" OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 57. | _ | _ | Desert dwellers are known to eat Kailla. | "Kaiila and verr are found at the oases, but not in great numbers. The herds of these animals are found in the desert. They are kept by nomads, who move them from one area of verr grass to another or from one water hole to another, as the holes, for the season, go dry… They, in spite of raising herds, eat very little meat. The animals are too precious for their trade value, and their hair and milk, to be often slaughtered for food. A nomad boy of fifteen will often have eaten meat no more than a dozen times in his life. Raiders, however, feast well on meat. The animals mean little to them and come to them cheaply." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pgs. 37-38. | _ | _ | eaten raw by the slaves in the Klima mines, this is the blind fish found there. | "'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. |
_ | _ | possibly similar to earth duck or geese. | "The cries of the marsh gants were about us now. I saw that her hunting had been successful. There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft." |
_ | _ | transported from the marshes, marsh shark is served as filets or steaks. | "Not only must they fear the marsh sharks and the carnivorous eels which frequent the lower delta, not to mention the various species of aggressive water tharlarion and the winged, monstrous, hissing, predatory UI, but they must fear, perhaps most of all, men, and of these, most of all, the men of Port Kar." RAIDERS OF GOR, Pg. 8 | _ | _ | delicacy of the waters found in the Vosk delta. | "Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk.." CAPTIVE OF GOR, Pg. 301. |
_ | _ | Slender, striped fish. | "Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish..." MARAUDERS OF GOR, Pg. 59. |
_ | _ | salt Thassa fish is just that, a small fish from the gleaming Thassa, served baked or broiled. | _ | _ | 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, PG. 43-44. |
_ | _ | at times it is known that Inuit will eat wild sleen, and those who have sled sleen will sometimes eat them before they themselves are eaten when the animal gets too hungry and decides to turn on their owner. This is done during hard times. | "Sled sleen, too, of course, may be killed for food. It is important, of course, to be the first to kill in such a situation." BEASTS OF GOR, Pg. 322. |
_ | _ | Sea snails favored by the Torvaldslanders. | 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. |
_ | _ | a delicacy. | "It is the spiced brain of the Torian vulo," Shphrar was explaining.".......I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia." NOMADS OF GOR, Pg. 83. |
_ | _ | is described as a one horned, yellowish antelope. The meat is grilled. | There are more than 20 types of this animal found in the rainforests.Their sweet meat is roasted. TARNSMAN OF GOR Pg. 146 |
_ | _ | similar to a pig, ham, bacon or chops. One way to prepare it, is to stuff it with suls and peppers. | "...my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable sixtusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests." OUTLAW OF GOR, Pg. 76. |
_ | _ | a large carnivorous bird of the plains. It is hunted and eaten by nomadic people of Gor. | "Tumits are large, flightless carniverous birds of the plains, often 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." NOMADS OF GOR, Pg. 2. |
_ | _ | Sometimes when people were starving, the urt was eaten. | "Worse, from the reports of deserters, it became clear that the city was starving and that water was running short.. The tiny urt, a common rodent of Gorean cities, was bringing a silver tarn disc in the markets." TARNSMAN OF GOR, Pgs. 186-187. |
_ | _ | a goat-like animal. The meat can be roasted or grilled. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. Verr can be steamed in the ground wrapped in leaves for the whole day...then it is not bitter or stringy. | "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." TRIBESMEN OF GOR, Pg. 37. |
_ | _ | Vosk carp is a carp fish from the river Vosk. it is served baked, fried, or broiled. | "To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rollwing yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle." Raiders of Gor, Pg. 1 | _ | _ | Vosk Sorp is a shellfish similar to the earth oyster. Like oyster, it manufactures pearls. It is often used in making soups and stews. | "He sat upon a giant shell of the Vosk sorp, as on a sort of throne, which for these people, I gather it was." Raiders of Gor, Pg. 14 | _ | _ | a small pigeon-like bird that can be cooked and eaten. The very small eggs are cooked for the breakfast meal by frying them in a large, flat pan. It takes several birds and many eggs to make a meal, served roasted and spiced. | "Vulo are domesticated pigeons raised for their meat and eggs." NOMADS OF GOR, Pg. 1 |
_ | _ | tiny eggs laid by the vulo. | "Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan…" SLAVEGIRL OF GOR, Pg. 73. |
_ | _ | Northern water fish. | "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. |
_ | _ | like earth caviar. | "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. |
_ | _ | a tiny blue salt-water fish found in the waters off port kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia. served as either fried nuggets or as pate with small squares of sa-tarna toast, caustion must be taken during preparation to avoid the 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin. | "Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I hear 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 |