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; served as beef is served. Blueberries: Smuggled from Earth. Butter: Churned from the milk of the bosk or the verr. Celane Melon: Cantelope. Cheese: Pressed from the milk of the bosk, 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, e.g. 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. 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. Ramberries: Small, succulent purple berries. Redfruit: Similar in flesh and taste to apples of Earth. 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. Sul: Starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tubrous 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: A swift gazelle-like animal known for its sweet meat and speed, the tabuk is generally served roasted. Ta-grapes: Fruit from the Isle of Cos similar to Earth grapes. Tarsk: Porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. 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 peoples of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolas, the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night. 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. Back