Black Bread:
baked
soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark, served with clotted
Bosk Cream or honey
Bosk:
large,
shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; cooked and served
anyway beef is served
Blueberries:
smuggled
from Earth
Butter:
Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr
Celane Melon:
Cantalope
Cheese:
Made from the milk of the Bosk, or Verr these cheeses are sharp in taste and travel well, resisting mold in their hard rinds
Dates:
These
come from the city of Tor
Fish:
many
different varieties of fish are consumed, eg parsit; a silvery fish having brown
stripes and wingfish; a tiny blue saltwater fish with 4 poisonous spines on
its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in the city of Turia
Kes:
a shrub whose salty blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage
Kort:
a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg
Larma:
succulent fruit, rather like an apple; 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.
"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." --p.437, Renegades of Gor
Olives:
are commonly from the city of Tor (referred to as Torian Olives); also red olives which come from the groves of the city of Tyros
Ram-berries: small, succulent purple berries
Redfruit:
similar in flesh and taste to apples of urth
Rence:
a water plant, the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake
Sa-Tarna:
grain, specifically wheat
Sa-Tassna:
meat; food in general
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
Sorp:
a
shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk River, similar to an oyster;
Sugar: two varieties are commonly used, red sugar and yellow sugar.
It is believed that red sugar is made from fruits and yellow sugar from the
juices of crushed cane stalks. (Books however talk of white and yellow sugar
only, some say)
Sul:
starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried
Sullage:
a
soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else
may be handy
Tabuk:
Gazelle-like animals known for their sweet meat, the Tabuk is generally served roasted
Ta grapes:
fruit from the Isle of Cos similar to urth grapes.
Tarsk:
porcine animal akin to the Earth pig. The meat is roasted and commonly stuffed with suls and peppers
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 eat the bird, or it eats You.
Tospit:
a bitter, juicy citrus fruit.Small and peach-like, yellow in color and often dried and candied
Tur-pah:
an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage
Verr:
a goat-like animal. The meat can be eaten. Its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter. Verr meat must be steamed in the ground wrapped in leaves for the whole day. This prevents it from being bitter and stringy
Vulo:
a
tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild;
used for meat and eggs