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

 
 



 

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