Black Bread -- baked, heavy and dark served with clotted bosk cream or honey Biscuits -- a dried pressed biscuits described as baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour Flour Making -- ground with the use of the grain quern/a mortar and pestle. "Tribesmen of Gor, p. 72" Rence - pith from stem and seeds is boiled or ground into a paste or porridge think grits or rice "Raiders of Gor, p. 7" Rice - the same on Gor as earth "Players of Gor, p. 370" Sa-Tarna -- common yellow grain, specifically wheat, a staple of Gor - used to make bread & in brewing paga Sa-Tarna Bread / Yellow Bread - made from Sa-Tarna grain, it is baked in round loaves, marked before baking, into six sections. "Outlaw of Gor, p. 76" and is a staple of most meals Sa-Tarna Gruel/Slave Gruel/Bond-Maid Gruel/ Porridge - a cold unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal fed to slaves; sometimes, raw pieces of parsit fish or shreds of meat and vegetables are added
Dairy and Fish
DAIRY
Butter - churned from the milk of the verr or bosk.
Cheese - made from the milk of the bosk or verr, they are sharp in taste; travel well resisting molds in their hard rinds
Eggs - vulo eggs -- a fowl considerably smaller than the earth chicken, are cooked in the same array of manners as chicken eggs. arctic gant eggs -- a migratory arctic gant; when frozen, they are eaten like apples, "Beasts of Gor, p. 196" there are many varieties available depending on the region "Nomads of Gor, p. 1"
Fish and Seafood
Caviar - the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt.
Eel - long snake like water inhabitant; boiled, fried or baked "Raiders of Gor, p. 114"
Eela - voracious eel which can maim or kill a slave in moments - some varieties are edible and considered a Gorean delicacy varieties include: river eel, black eel, spotted eel. "Magicians of Gor, p. 428"
Grunts Great Specles - a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors. "Slave Girl of Gor, p. 360"
Oysters - similar to earth oysters; from the delta of the Vosk.
Oysters, Tambur Gulf - from the Tamber Gulf, these oysters are served raw or baked. "Captive of Gor, p. 301"
Parsit - a thin silver fish having brown stripes, from the cold waters of the North, in Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south. "Marauders of Gor, p. 28, 56, and 63-64"
Salt Thassa Fish - baked or broiled serve with steamed peas, hot sul broken open smeared with butter sprinkled with salt and loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections
Shark/Marsh Shark - live in the sea and marshes, shark is served as filets or steaks. "Marauders of Gor, p. 66"
Sorp - shellfish, similar to oysters (manufactures pearls), common in the Vosk river, used in soups and stews
Vosk Carp - fish from the river Vosk can be served baked, fried or broiled, served with suls broken open and smeared with melted bosk cheese, steamed peas and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections
White-bellied Grunt - a large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish. It's eggs are considered a rare delicacy.. like caviar. "Marauders of Gor, p.59"
Wingfish - tiny blue salt-water fish, delicacy especially its liver, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin which are poisonous, sometimes referred to as the songfish due to its whistling mating song can be roasted it in a iron pan over the fire, serve with steamed peas, hot sul broken open smeared with butter sprinkled with salt and loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections
Fruits
Fruits: Apricots - apparently identical to the apricot of Earth; references exist of the fruit being sold in marketplaces of the Tahari. "Tribesman of Gor, p. 45"
Blueberries - smuggled to Gor from Earth, very rare.
Celane Melon - similar to honeydew melon, it is served chilled and sliced. "Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45"
Cherries - grown in Tyros. "Beasts of Gor, p. 349"
Chokecherries - used in "pemmican" and other dishes "Blood Brothers of Gor, p. 46"
Pemmican - Wakapapi a combination of herbs seasonings fruit and kailiauk meat bound with kailiauk fat and made into small flattish rounded cakes. Served as is or crumbled into porridge soups and stews. "Blood Brothers of Gor, p. 46"
Dates - from the city of Tor, 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); 5 such baskets constitute a huda; in large compressed bricks they are used in trade. "Tribesman of Gor, p. 46"
Ka-la-na - sweet think of pears, juicy fruit from the golden kalana tree of the plains of Ka-la-na, it is fermented to make a potent dry wine or sweet red wine; and is also used to garnish drinks; served as well as any other fruit. "Tarnsmen of Gor, p. 168"
Larma - they come in two types -- 1. juicy, a segmented, succulent fruit -- 2. hard, rather like an apple, having one pit, commonly called the "pit fruit" - offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped a girl holds the fruit, offers it to Master saying, "a girl offers You fruit, Master." - can be served whole broken open, sliced or fried and drizzled browned honey.
Melon - yellowish, red-striped spheres
Merlot grapes - dark grape, used to make merlot wine
Nuts - used among other things, in vulo stew
Olives - from the cities of Tor and Tyros, the latter producing the red variety of olive
Peaches - soft deep yellow sweet fruit with a single pit, similar to those of earth
Plumbs - soft deep red to gold sweet fruit with a single pit "Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45"
Pumpkins - sweet orange fleshed squash "Savages of Gor, p. 233"
Raisins - not described.. but since there are grapes.. there are raisins. "Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37"
Ram-berries - small reddish/purple fruit native to Gor used to make jams and pies, they can however be served as is, in a bowl
Redfruit - sweet fruit that is similar in texture and taste to the earth apple; 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. "Raiders of Gor, p. 7"
Ta-grapes - from the Isle of Cos, These purple grapes resemble those of earth and are used to make Ta-wine, but may also be eaten as is also believed to be the raisins in the vulo stew of Tribesmen of Gor, p. 45"
Tospit - named for the large number of seeds it holds, this small yellow peach-like fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush is bitter in taste though edible since they are bitter in taste, they are usually candied or sliced and dipped in honey used as a garnish in Kal-da - its juice is used in the preparation of citrus drinks and a variety of dishes Meat
Bosk - similar to earth's beef, a huge ox like creature, with a thick humped neck, long horns and long shaggy hair roasted in a spit,the outside is very dark, inside pint to rare, very juicy, cut with a carving stone, can be served with suls broken open and smeared with melted bosk cheese, steamed peas and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections sliced steak from the loin as thick as the forearm of a Warrior, seared on a small iron grill with herbs and spices, using charcoal cylinders till the outside is black, crisp and flaky with the inside juicy, served with slices of kalana and sprinkles of tospit fruit to garnish it, plus narrow, cooked slices of suls, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections it is also stewed, broiled or dried
Gant - similar to the earthen duck, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged, gant is a staple of the rence people who inhabit the Delta of the Vosk.
Kailiauk - think of buffalo or lean beef - the main item served in the Red Savage diet -- kailiauk is a dangerous beast standing 20-25 hands at the shoulders and weighing as much as 4000lbs "Savages of Gor, p. 40"
Pemmican - Wakapapi a combination of herbs seasonings fruit and kailiauk meat bound with kailiauk fat and made into small flattish rounded cakes. Served as is or crumbled into porridge soups and stews. "Blood Brothers of Gor, p. 46"
Sa-Tassna - meat; food in general. "Tarnsman of Gor, p. 43"
Tabuk - a berry eating antelope known for the sweetness of its meat it is roasted or grilled, cut with a carving stone, can be served with suls broken open and smeared with melted bosk cheese, steamed peas and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections
Tarn - a rare delicacy eaten on the battlefield by Warriors after a battle. The tarn is roasted, cut into chunks and served with red (blood) gravy.Tarsk - akin to the earthen pig, a staple in the diet of rence growers, the tarsk is a six tusked boar that is often not a favored food due to its being a carrion eater it is roasted over rence-root fires, stuffed with suls and peppers from the city of Tor, served with a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections kept on metal pans, elevated above the fire on metal racks
Tarsk similiar to the Earth pig in form, have a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail. They are not a favored food, being carrion eaters, but are a staple amoung the rence growers. It is roasted and commonly stuffed with suls and peppers.
"Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans."
Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44
Tumit - large carnivorous flightless bird of the southern plains; traditionally hunted with bolos the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night. "Nomads of Gor, p. 2" roasted served with suls broken open and smeared with melted bosk cheese, steamed peas and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections
Verr - a herd mammal that resembles the earth goats; can be roasted or grilled; its milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter steaks or whole legs are wrapped in leaves and steamed in the ground for a whole day, to prevent the meat from getting stringy, served with suls broken open and smeared with melted bosk cheese, and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod. served with narrow, cooked slices of suls, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections
Vulo - a tawny colored poultry bird a pigeon-like bird small eggs are cooked in a flat pan, the size of the eggs making it necessary to cook many at a time to satisfy an appetite, plus narrow, cooked slices of suls, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections three birds, finely cleaned, are roasted or baked, stuffed with a mixture of sa-tana bread, ramberries, dates and spring water, herbs and spices, served with steamed peas and a loaf of warm sa-tarna bread with butter melting into the six scored sections the brains (spiced) are a delicacy
Vegetables
Beans
Cabbage - leafy headed vegetable "Savages of Gor, p. 292"
Carrots - sweet orange root vegetable "Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37"
Corn - starchy sweet vegetable of Red Savages - Wagmeza Wagmu maize or corn. "Savages of Gor, p. 233"
Garlic - can whole roast them, also listed under seasoning, not described in detail "Outlaw of Gor, p. 29"
Katch - a foliated leaf vegetable similar to lettuce
Kes - a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage (veg soup, listed below) grows in sandy soils
Kort - a yellow fibrous sphere shaped vegetable, usually 6" in width, thick brownish-skinned, heavily seeded usually served sliced (uncooked) with melted cheese and nutmeg over top
Mul Fungus - bland whitish fibrous vegetable like with almost no taste (think tofu perhaps) "Priest Kings of Gor, p. 109"
Mushrooms - no description given "Mercenaries of Gor, p. 82"
Onions - no description given "Marauders of Gor' p. 81"
Peas - are mentioned as a menu item, but not described but peas are peas. "Marauders of Gor, p. 81"
Peppers - not described "Tribesmen of Gor, p. 47"
Radishes - not described in detail "Marauders of Gor, p. 102"
Squash - various types of fleshy starchy vegetable "Savages of Gor, p. 233"
Sul - a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable, similar to the earth potato - there are a thousand ways in which it is prepared break it open and smear it with melted bosk cheese narrow, cooked slices, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt
Sullage - Gorean vegetable soup - boiled and simmered in a kettle, consisting of three standard ingredients, the golden sul (potato), the curled red ovate tur-pah leaves salty blue secondary roots of kes, along with whatever else may be handy
Turnip - grown on the oasis of the Tahari "Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37"
Tur-pah - an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the Tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage. "Priest Kings of Gor, p. 45"
Sugars
Candy - "tastas" or "stick candies - soft, rounded, succulent candies, usually covered with a coating of syrup or fudge, rather in the nature of the caramel apple, but much smaller, and, like a caramel apple, mounted on sticks. the candy is prepared and the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten."
Chocolate - (Earth) beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth. "Kajira of Gor, p. 61"
Honey ... "I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried or butter made. "Marauders of Gor, p. 81"
Honey Cakes - eaten with fingers
Licorice - aromatic flavoring from roots "Dancer of Gor, p. 81"
Mint Sticks ... just mentioned as tiny mint sticks in a bowl "Explorers of Gor, p. 10"
Pastries ... mentioned in "Nomads of Gor, p. 239"
Popsicles - a goblet containing minced flavored ices
Rence paste and cakes - the rence plants pith (center of the stem) is edible, it is made into a paste, fired into rence a type of pancake and distilled into beer.
Sugar - two types white (from the juices of crushed cane stalks) and yellow (from the juices of fruit)
Spices
Cinnamon - imported from earth, a spice "Explorers of Gor, p. 98"
Cloves - another earth spice, apparently brought on the Ship "Explorers of Gor, p. 98"
Garlic - not described in detail "Outlaw of Gor, p. 29"
Nutmeg - aromatic sweet spice from nuts "Tribesman of Gor, p. 47"
Salt - white from the mines of Klima, in the Tahari desert; red from ferrous oxide in its composition which is called the Red Salt of Kasra Tribesman of Gor, p. 238" yellow salt as 'of the south' and on a table exist, but no other description has been found. "Assassin of Gor, p. 86"