Apricots | "I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices." -- Tribesman of Gor, page 45 Sold in the marketplaces of the Tahari, the apricot is identical to the one of Earth. |
Biscuits | "I hurried to the pack kaiila and fetched from it the water bag. Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour. We watched him eat and drink. We did not feel that his stomach would be ready yet for the meat of kailiauk." -- Savages of Gor, page 328 |
Black bread | "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 Black bread is baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark. Often it is served with clotted bosk cream or honey. |
Bond-maid gruel | "He thrust the contents of the small bowl in her mouth. Choking, the proud Aelgifu swallowed the thick gruel, that of dampened Sa-Tarna meal and raw fish, the gruel of the bond-maids." -- Marauders of Gor, page 67 A food that slaves (bond-maids) eat in the north in Torvaldsland. It primarily consists of sa-tarna meal, small cubes of raw parsit fish, and water. It is unsweetened. |
Bosk | "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 praries of Gor." -- Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45 Large, long-horned bovine similar to the Earth cow, but is much larger. Appearance is mix of Earth yak, ox, and buffalo, with a thick humped neck, wide head, tiny red eyes. There are 15 varieties on Gor and have the temper of a sleen. Due to their two long horns, they can be quite deadly, even from a distance. Their two long wicked horns reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Bosk can be cooked in many ways: roasted and sliced, or as steaks are the most popular ways. Goreans drink the milk of the bosk and use it to make cheese and butter. |
Bread | Bread is served in wedges and is almost always baked in round, flat loaves. The average loaf is cut into either four or eight wedges, depending on the size of the loaf. -- Renegade of Gor, page 70 See Sa Tarna Bread and Black Bread for specifics. |
Butter | Due to the absence of verr or bosk, butter would be in scarce supply. --
Marauders of Gor, page 156 Butter is most commonly made from the milk of bosk or verr. |
Cheese | Verr cheese is very popular and the most common type of cheese. -- Raiders of Gor, page 114 |
Cherries | "'Does Master enjoy my taste?' she said. 'It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros,' I said." -- Beasts of Gor, page 349 Grown in Tyros, cherries are identical to the ones grown on Earth. |
Cosian wingfish liver | "'Now this,' Saphrar the merchant was telling me, 'is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined 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 the 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 poisons 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. The blue, four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies." -- Nomads of Gor, pages 84-85 The liver of the wingfish can be made into pate or fried. Braise them anyway you would normally cook liver. The fish itself can be poached. |
Dates | "A veiled woman was hawking dates by the tefa. A handful with the five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. Six such handfuls constitutes a tefa, which is a tiny basket. Five such baskets constitutes a huda." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 46 It takes ten years before the date palm begins to bear fruit and will yield fruit for more than a century. -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Dates, from the City of Tor, are one of the principle exports of the region. They are sold either by the basket (tefa or huda in size) or in pressed-date bricks for trade and export. Date bricks are long and rectangular, weighing about four pounds each. Dates are a staple of the diet of those within the Tahari. It takes ten years before the date palm begins to bear fruit and will yield fruit for more than a century. -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 |
Eel | A voracious, carnivorous animal, eel is a Gorean delicacy. According to Magicians of Gor, page 428, there are river eels, black eels, and spotted eels. Eels frequent the lower delta (page 8) and are ribboned for cooking�(page 114). -- Raiders of Gor |
Grease | "'I might have you fried in the grease of tarsk,' she said, 'boiled
in the oil of tharlarion!'" -- Marauders of Gor, page 111 |
Grunt, white-bellied | A large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish. -- Marauders of Gor, page 59 |
Honey | "I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised...." -- Marauders of Gor, page 81 Pretty much identical to honey on Earth. |
Ice | Torvaldsland: ...in the shadow of the cliff, would be the ice house, where ice from the mountains, brought down on sledges to the valley, would be kept covered with chips of wood. -- Marauders of Gor, page 81 "My house, incidentally, like most Gorean houses, had no ice chest. There is little cold storage on Gor. Generally, food is preserved by being dried or salted. Some cold storage, of course, does exist. Ice is cut from ponds in the winter, and then stored in ice houses, under sawdust. One may go to the ice houses for it, or have it delivered in ice wagons. Most Goreans, of course, cannot afford the luxury of ice in the summer." -- Guardsmen of Gor, page 295 |
Katch | "At the oasis will be grown... a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch...." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 A green, leafy vegetable much like lettuce. |
Kes shrub | "... 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 A shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage. |
Kort | "At the oasis will be grown ... korts, a large, brown-ish 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 A rinded vegetable that is rather large and brown on the outside, yellow on the inside. It is often served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg on top. |
Larma | "'Do not be afraid,' I said. I took a slice of hard larma from my 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 it's large single stone." -- Players of Gor, page 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." -- Renegade of Gor, page 437 There are two types of larma. One is a juicy, segmented, succulent fruit more like an orange. The second is hard, rather like an apple, and has one seed. It is commonly called the pit fruit because the seed is in a pit like the Earthen peach. The hard larma is sometimes sliced, 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. |
Melons | "'Buy melons!' called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres towards me." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 Yellowish, red-striped fruits sold within the Tahari. There is a great variety of melons, much like on Earth. Celane melon is similar to honeydew melon and is served chilled and sliced. |
Miscellaneous | There are a number of other various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties grown on Gor. -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 |
Olives | "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 Olives, resembling those found on Earth, are commonly from the City of Tor and referred to as Torian Olives. There are also red olives that come from Tyros groves. |
Parsit fish | "The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. 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, pages 63-64 A silvery fish having brown stripes. It is often chopped up and added raw to bond-maid gruel. The fish is cooked by placing it into paga-soaked palm leaves, with butter and herbs. Then they are placed under the hot ash of the fire to cook slowly. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south. |
Pastries, tarts, cakes | "...crumbs of the pastry...to lick frosting from her fingers." Marauders of Gor, page 157 "...pastries with creams and custards...." -- Beasts of Gor, page 20 "...for pastries and tarts and cakes..." -- Nomads of Gor, page 238 |
Peaches | "I idly observed the dancer. Her eyes were on me. It seemed, in her hands, she held ripe fruits for me, lush larma, fresh picked. Her wrists were close together, as though confined by the links of slave bracelets. She touched the imaginary larma to her body, caressing her swaying beauty with it, and then, eyes piteous, held her hands forth, as though begging me to accept the lush fruit. Men at the table clapped their hands on the wood, and looked at me. Others smote their left shoulders. I smiled. 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. I shall mention two such devices. There is, first, the bondage knot. Most Gorean slave girls have long hair. The bondage knot is a simple looped knot tied in the girl's hair and worn at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. The girl approaches the master naked and kneels; the bondage knot soft, curled, fallen at the side of her right cheek or before her right shoulder. 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. These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot endure the absence of the masculine caress. Such girls, even with hatred, may offer the larma, furious with themselves, yet helpless, the captive of their slave needs, forced to beg on their knees for the touch of a harsh master, who revels in the, sport of their plight; does he satisfy them; if it is his will, yes; if it is not his will, no. They are slaves." -- Tribesmen of Gor, pages 27-28 A yellow Gorean peach is pretty much identical to the one of Earth. |
Peppers | "I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but , I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells. Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by children in the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of his mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 46 "In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of pepper and larma, and roasted...." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 The Tahari is known for spicy foods and hot peppers. Very much similar to Earth's hot peppers. |
Pith (rence plant) | "The plant has many uses... its pith is edible, and for the rench growers, 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, page 7 A water plant that has many uses. 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. |
Ramberries | "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 tiny plums, save for the many small seeds." -- Captive of Gor, page 305 Small, succulent reddish, purple berries. |
Red fruit | Similar in flesh and taste to apples of earth origins. |
Red salt of Kasra | "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." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 238 Red salt is brought from secret pits and mines, deep in the interior of Gor, bound in heavy cylinders on the backs of kaiila. |
Rence paste | When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, which is often sprinkled with rence seeds. -- Raiders of Gor, page 25 The pith (mentioned above) may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened. This paste can also be fried into a type of pancake. |
Salt | "It had been expected, 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 Salt is obtained by men of Torvaldsland from sea water or by burning seaweed. The�red and yellow salts of the south are not domestic to Torvaldsland. -- Marauders of Gor, page 187 |
Sa-Tarna | "There were great quantities of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread." -- Raiders of Gor, page 114 Sa-Tarna is a wheat-type grain that is yellow in color and is the staple crop of much of Gor. There is a brown variety grown in the Tahari that has been specifically developed to withstand the hotter temperatures of the area. It is ground in mills and used to make sa-tarna bread. It is baked in round flat pans and cut into eight pieces, or four for smaller loaves. The bread is marked into the correct number of pieces before being cooked. Sa-Tarna also means Life Daughter. -- Tarnsman of Gor, page 43 |
Sa-Tassna | This is a general word for meat. -- Tarnsman of Gor, page 43<.i> Sa-Tassna means Life Mother. -- Tarnsman of Gor, page 44 |
Slave porridge | "One of the smiths from below was summoned with a bowl of slave porridge, which he mised 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 as gruel, and deliberately so, as might be imagined." -- Assassin of Gor, page 126 A cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal that slaves are fed. |
Sorp | "'They are probably false stones,' I said, 'amber droples, 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 A shellfish, common to the Vosk river and very similar to an oyster. Sorp can be fixed a number of ways: fried, eaten raw, made into stew, or cooked and added to stuffing. |
Sul | "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant, ... leaves of the Tur-Pah... and roots of the Kes Shrub." -- Priest-Kings of Gor, pages 44-45 A starchy, tuberous vegetable similar to the potato. It is thick-skinned and yellow-fleshed. It is often served sliced and fried. It is also the principal ingredient in sullage. |
Sullage | A soup made from suls, tur-pah leaves, kes and pretty much anything else around. |
Sugar | "She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She knelt, placing her tray upon the table. 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, she stirred the beverage after each measure." -- Tribesmen of Gor, page 89 There are two types of sugar that are commonly used: white sugar and yellow sugar. |
Ta grapes | "The meal was completed by a handful of grapes and a draught of water from the wall tap. 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." -- Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45 Purple fruit similar to grapes on Earth and they originally came from the Isle of Cos, but are now grown all over. They may be up to the size of a tiny plum and are often peeled by slaves before eaten. |
Tabuk | "... My mouth watered for a tabuk steak." -- 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. It is also one of the favorite kills of a tarn." -- Outlaw of Gor, page 126 Swift gazelle like animal known for its sweet meat and speed. Tabuk is generally served roasted and sliced, but can also be sliced into steaks and grilled. |
Tarsk | "... My mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, prehaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six-tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests." -- Outlaw of Gor, page 76 Porcine animal akin to the Earth razorback, or pig with a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. Also has six tusks and can be domesticated. Tarsk meat tends to be salty and is most often roasted. One way commonly served in Tor is stuffed with suls and Torian peppers. It can also be made into sausages or stips and chops and then grilled. |
Tospit | "I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinked, 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 Small bitter fruit the size of a plum but yellow in color. They are sometimes served sliced and sweetened with honey, and in syrups. They can also be dried and candied. They are also used to flavor, with their juices, a variety of dishes. Tospits 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. |
Tur-pah | "... the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees." -- Priest-Kings of Gor, page 44-45 This leafy parasite, which grows on Tur trees, is a primary ingrediant of sullage. |
Vegetables | There are Gorean�peas (Assassin of Gor, page 87), beans,�cabbages, and�onions as well. -- Marauders of Gor, page 81 |
Verr | "The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horned. Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one." -- Priest-Kings of Gor, page 63 A mountain goat that is indigenous to the Voltai Mountains. They are long-haired, spiral-horned, and ill-tempered. They can be domesticated and are a souce of wool. Verr meat is like lamb. It can be roasted and made into shish ka bobs by marinating and placing over the fire to cook with other vegetables. The milk of the verr is enjoyed by Goreans and can also be used to make cheese. |
Vulo | "She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, domesticated pigeons raised for eggs and meat." -- Nomads of Gor, page 1 A tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild. The vulo is cooked in a myriad of ways, much like poultry -- baked, fried, and roasted. At least some of the meat of the vulo is white meat. The very small eggs are cooked for breakfast by frying them in a flat pan. It requires many eggs to make a meal due to their small size. |
Vulo brains | "It is the spiced brain of the Torian vulo...." and "I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong." --Nomads of Gor, page 83 |