| BREADS
Biscuits: Flat, pressed biscuits made from sa-tarna flour and kailiauk fat and baked.
Black Bread: A type of bread often served to enslaved crews on ships. Generally described as a slave food.
Rence: A water plant whose grain and pith is eaten. Similar to Earth rice.
Sa-tarna Bread: Bread baked from sa-tarna grain. It is yellowish in color and usually split into eight wedges. It is baked as a round, flat loaf.
Sa-tarna Grain: Specifically, yellow wheat. Described as yellow shafts growing in rows in a field. It is a staple of Gorean diet. Sa-tarna means, literally, �life-daughter.� Similar to Earth wheat.
Sa-tarna Porridge: Made of sa-tarna meal, it is similar to cream of wheat.
Slave Porridge: Cold, unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal, extremely nourishing though very bland and made for consumption by slaves. In Torvaldsland, it is called bond-maid gruel and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish.
DAIRY
Butter: Churned from the milk of the bosk or verr.
Cheese: Cheese made from the milk of the bosk and verr. Bosk cheese has a lighter taste than verr cheese. They are sharp in taste and travel well, resisting molds in their hard rinds.
Eggs: Vulo eggs, the most common eggs on Gor, come from the pigeon-sized vulo. Arctic gant eggs are from a migratory bird that nests on cliffs in the Hrimgar Mountains, the southern border of the polar north. When frozen, their eggs are eaten like apples.
Milk: Milk from the bosk is a staple of life for the tribes of the Wagon Peoples. In some areas, it is available in powdered form. Sand kaiila milk is used by the peoples of the Tahari as verr milk is used elsewhere. It is reddish with a salty, strong taste due to the content of ferrous sulfate. Verr milk is sometimes sold in open markets from a brass container carried on a strap and served in tiny brass cups.
FISH/SEAFOOD
Eel: Various types of eel are raised on Gor to be consumed. Many types are considered to be a delicacy.
Oysters: Same as the Earth variety and considered a delicacy. Found in the delta of the Vosk.
Parsit Fish: A light, flaky, delicate fish that is sometimes mixed, raw, into slave porridge or gruel.
Sorp: A giant shellfish
Cosian Wingfish: Also known as songfish due to its whistling mating song. It is a tiny blue salt-water fish with four poisonous spines on its dorsal fin about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one�s hand. Found in the waters off Port Kar, it is regarded as a great delicacy and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies in Turia. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea.
FRUITS
Apricot: Same as the Earth variety. It can be found sold in the markets of the Tahari.
Berries: Same as the Earth variety.
Cherries: The cherries of Tyros are famed.
Chokecherries: Berries often used in the making of wakapapi, small, flattish round cakes made with crushed fruit, meat and kailiauk fat.
Date: A staple of the diet of the Tahari tribesmen. They are sold in a tef (a handful with the 5 fingers closed. A tefa is 6 tefs (a small basket). Five such baskets constitute a huda. In large compressed bricks, they are used in trade. It is the principal export of the Tahari.
Ka-la-na: The red fruit of the ka-la-na tree. Presumably sweet, it is used to make a type of wine as well as being edible on its own. Similar to an Earth pear. The wood of the tree is yellow and strong used in making of bows.
Larma: They come in two types: 1) A juicy, segmented, succulent fruit; 2) hard, rather like an apple, having one pit. Commonly called the pit fruit, it is 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.
Melon: A yellowish, red-striped fruit. Similar to cantaloupe. Sold in Tahari markets. There may also be other melons, such as watermelon brought from Earth.
Pear: Same as the Earth variety.
Pit Fruit: Also known as the hard larma, this is a firm, single-seeded, apple-like fruit.
Plums: Same as the Earth variety.
Pomegranate: Same as the Earth variety.
Raisins: Since there are grapes, there are raisins.
Ramberry: Small reddish berries with edible seeds, much like tiny plums except with many seeds within.
Ta-grape: Edible purple fruit, the size of a small plum, from which ta-wine is made. Usually associated with the terraces of Cos, yet also found in various locales of similar latitude.
Tospit: Bitter but edible peach-like fruit about the size of a plum. It is yellowish-white in color. Sometimes served sliced and sweetened with honey. They are also used in syrups and to flavor a variety of dishes. They are also carried on sea voyages to prevent nutritional deficiencies. They almost always have an odd number of seeds, except for the rare, long-stemmed ones.
MEATS/POULTRY
Bosk: A huge bovine similar to Earth cattle of the shaggy-haired variety.
Gant: There are several types of these duck-like birds. The marsh gant is a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl. It is broad-billed and broad-winged. Its call is a kind of piping whistle. Rence growers tame them and also eat them. The jungle gant is a bird of the rainforests related to the marsh gant. The migratory arctic gant nests in the Hrimgar Mountains in steep, rocky outcroppings called bird cliffs. Their eggs may be frozen and eaten like apples.
Tabuk: A kind of antelope, the meat of which is often used as steaks.
Tarsk: A porcine animal akin to the Earth boar. Its meat is often roasted whole. The Market of Semris is famed for its tarsk markets.
Tumit: A large, flightless, carnivorous bird hunted with bolas by the Wagon Peoples. The sport lies in who gets to eat that night, the hunter or the bird.
Verr: A mountain goat domesticated and used for wool, meat and milk. It is indigenous to the Voltai Mountains. The milk is potable as well as being used for cheese.
Vulo: A tawny-colored poultry bird similar to a pigeon that also exists in the wild. It is used for meat and eggs.
MISCELLANEOUS
Chocolate: The beans originally taken from Earth, chocolate is now grown and used on Gor as well.
Honey: The product of honeybees, it is a favorite sweet, used by itself or in cooking, especially with candy and desserts.
Ice, Flavored: Flavored ices are a treat, since there is little refrigeration on Gor.
Mint Stick: A confection served in a bowl on a tray set for black wine service. Most likely a hard candy used to clear the palate.
Nuts: Mentioned in reference to foods, particularly desserts. A variety of nuts is plausible. They are an import of the Tahari.
Pastries: Goreans are very fond of pastries. Though not specifically mentioned, it is likely that there is a large variety, many similar to Earth.
Rence Cakes: A type of cake made from fried rence paste, on flat stones, often sprinkled with rence seeds.
Salt: Red salt, known as the "Red Salt of Kasra," contains ferrous oxide that gives it its color. White Salt is untainted sea salt. The main type of salt found at the salt mine of Klima. Salt mined from the Tahari makes up 20% of the salt used in various products of Gor. The mining, harvesting, sifting, purifying and packaging process turns out nine qualities of salt that are shipped all over Gor. Yellow salt is spoken of as "of the south".
Sa-tassna: Meaning life-mother, it refers to meat or food in general.
Spices: Since such spices as cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg are mentioned, it is likely others are also available.
Sugar: There are various colors of sugars, though their flavors are never spoken of. There is specifically mentioned four Gorean sugars though only two, white and yellow, are ever mentioned by color.
Tasta: Small, round, succulent candy coated in syrup or fudge and then mounted upon a stick for easy handling and eating. Literal translation is "stick candy." Normally found in parks, promenades, and popular events.
VEGETABLES
Beans: Legumes of many varieties. Same as the Earth variety.
Cabbages: Same as the Earth variety.
Carrots: Same as the Earth variety.
Corn: Similar to the Earth variety.
Garlic: Same as the Earth variety.
Katch: A foliated leaf vegetable, similar to lettuce.
Kes: The salty blue secondary root of the kes shrub can be eaten and is a primary ingredient in sullage, a type of Gorean soup.
Kort: A large, brownish-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable with a thick skin, usually six inches in width. It has a yellowish interior that is fibrous and heavily seeded. Similar to an Earth squash. It is often served with melted cheese and nutmeg.
Mushrooms: Same as the Earth variety.
Olives: Are commonly from the City of Tor, referred to as Torian olives. There are also red olives which come from the groves of Tyros.
Onion: Same as the Earth variety.
Peas: Same as the Earth variety.
Peppers: Hot peppers are found in the Tahari and used in cooking. Goreans enjoy spicy foods. Bell peppers may also be found, though there is no reference to them.
Radishes: There are two types of radish, a sphere shaped version and a cylinder shaped variety. These are a common vegetable that is the same as the Earth varieties.
Rence Pith: A reed-like water plant whose stem center is edible, either raw or cooked. Rence pith and fish are the dietary staples of the rence growers.
Sul: Starchy, golden brown, yellow-fleshed, vine-borne fruit and a principal ingredient in sullage. It is a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato and often served sliced and fried. There is a root variety, as well. It is a staple of the Gorean diet.
Sullage: A common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, suls, tur-pah and kes, and whatever else may be found.
Turnip: Grown on the oases of the Tahari. Turnips are also an import to the Tahari region. This vegetable is the same as the Earth variety.
Tur-pah: A vine-like tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves that are edible and an ingredient of sullage, a Gorean soup.
Vangis: Type of produce sold at market. No other description has been found. |