~Meat, Fish and Poultry~

Bint: This is a fanged, carnivorous, freshwater marsh eel which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi; a large school of bints can strip a carcass in minutes. (Explorers of Gor, page 267 and 271) Bint is good deep fried in a batter and served on normal wooden platters.

Bosk: Also known as Sa-Tassna or 'Life-Mother'; this animal is similar to the Yak of Earth, also knows as the 'Gorean cow'; this animal has many uses and among those, it is used for its meat.
Bosk can be served roasted, sliced, broiled, boiled, stewed, fried, or dried. It can also be served as steaks. See also bosk cream, bosk milk, and bosk cheese. (Nomads of Gor, pg 4)

Cosian Wingfish: This tiny blue saltwater fish has four poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; it is found in the waters of Port Kar; its liver is a delicacy on Turia. It can be served as fried nuggets or as pate' with small squares of Sa-Tarna toast. (Nomads of Gor, pg 84)

Eel: River, Black, and the Spotted eel are considered a delicacy. (Magicians of Gor, pg 428)

Gant: Marsh; a small long-legged horned bird; broad-billed and broad-winged, hunted by marsh girls. Jungle; a bird, related to the marsh Gant, which inhabits the river in rainforests inland of Schendi Arctic; migratory bird that nests in the mountain of Hrimgar on cliffs. When frozen, eggs are eaten like apples. (Nomads of Gor, pg 84; other)

Gatch: Also known as armored gatch; this is a marsupial mammal which inhabits the rainforests inland of Schendi; gatch is good open roasted as a pig woud be on a spit; it is also served on a plain wooden platter. (Explorers of Gor, pg 312)

Grunt: Varieties: Marsh, Blue, Great-speckled; a large, carnivorous, salt-water fish which inhabits Thassa; it is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature. Similar to the shark of Earth; the great speckled, being caught and used as food by the sailors of the Thassa. (Slave Girl of Gor, pg 360; Vagabonds of Gor, pg 246)

Marsh Shark: This Gorean shark can be served as filets or as steaks.

Parsit Fish: This is a slender stripy fish added to bond-maid gruel. It is delightful roasted in a bag made of Rence paper and topped with verr butter, some herbs from gardens, and sliced red Tyros olives. It is a delicacy to any tongue.

Salt Thassa Fish: This is a small fish from the gleaming Thassa; it can be served baked or broiled.

Sorp: This is a shellfish and is commonly found and especially in the Vosk River; it is similar to an oyster and manufactures pearls. Sorp is excellent for making soups and stews; it may also be prepared raw, steamed, or smoked. When serving raw, the mollusk should be placed within the half shell and it views well seated upon a bed of colored salt. When steamed or smoked, it can be served same as raw or the shelled mollusk can be served upon a platter lined with green. When used in a thick fish stew it is traditionally served in a footed clay bowl with handles so the Free Person may drink of it.

Tabuk: Similar to the antelope, its meat is grilled. (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 191)

Tambar Gulf Oysters: These oysters are found along the Tambar Gulf and may be served raw or baked.

Tarsk: Similar to Earth's pig; this animal's meat is used as bacon, sausage, or steaks; it can also be roasted and basted. When roasted it can be stuffed, traditionally with sula and peppers, and garnished, perhaps with suls and tur-pah; also can be added a larma within its mouth. (Outlaw of Gor, pg 76)

Tharlarion: A lizard like animal that is not only ridden but also eaten.

Tumits: Tumits are large flightless birds, similar to Earth's ostrich; often hunted and eaten by the nomadic people of Gor.

Verr: This is the mountain goat of Gor and is indidenous of the Voltai Mountains; it is often served as steaks or haunches, even whole legs, upon occassion, like mutton. See also verr cream, verr milk, and verr cheese.

Vosk Carp: These are carp fish from the river Vosk; they can be baked, fried, or broiled.

Vulo: These are the domesticated pigeons of Gor and are used for both their meat and eggs; the bird can be cooked and eaten; the eggs are very small, cooked for breakfast, frying in a large, flat pan, and carried in wicker baskets. Several birds or a vast number of eggs must be prepared to make a meal for a Gorean Warrior. (Nomads of Gor, pg 1; Tribesmen of Gor)



~Staples~

Arctic Gant Eggs: These eggs, when frozen, are eaten like apples; of the Arctic Gant. (Beasts of Gor, pg 196)

Beans: Just as it the name suggests--beans; another export of the Tahari.

Black Bread: This bread is baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains; it is heavy and dark in color; served oftimes with clotted bosk cream or honey; baked from Gorean grains, heavy and dark. (Hunters of Gor, pg 13)

Bond Maid Gruel: Also known as slave porridge; this gruel is served cold and unsweetened; it is a mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal; in Torvaldsland, it is served mixed with pieces of parsit fish.

Dates: dates and pressed-date bricks; some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high,t takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit, the palms will then yield fruit for more than a century; a date tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit, exported from the Tahari (Tribesmen of Gor)

Nuts: Just as the name suggests--nuts.

Pasta: References to noodles. (Magicians of Gor, pg 290)

Rence: This is a water plant; its grain is eaten and its stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. As a grain it may be boiled or ground into paste and sweetened; it can also be fried into a pancake and sprinkled with rence seeds; edible (both raw and cooked) part of rence, it along with fish is the staple in rence growers diet; also sometimes used for caulking (Raiders of Gor, page 7)

Sa-Tarna: This is a yellow grain and a staple of Gor meaning 'life daughter'; it is brewed into Paga and used to make bread; can also be used as wheat or for gruel. (Tarnsman of Gor, pages 43 & 61)

Salt: Most salt at Kilma is white, but certain mines deliver red salt; red salt has ferrous oxide in its composition, called Red Salt of Kasra, after its port of embarkation, at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen; red salt is famed on Gor; in harvesting, it is bound in heavy cylindars on the backs of pack Kaiila, exported from the Tahari; yellow salt comes from the sea and from Klima.

Sa-Tarna Bread: This is of Sa-Tarna grain; round, flat cakes of baked Sa-Tarna meal; hearty staple of life and great for soaking up spilt paga. It is a yellow bread and is served as loaves: the small loaves are marked to four divisions for easy separation and the large loaves are marked into six divisions. A hybrid of the Tahari is a brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert (Tribesmen of Gor)

Sa-Tarna Gruel: This is a thick paste of boiled Sa-Tarna also known as bond-maid gruel or slave porridge. It is served in a small wooden bowl and the dried precooked meal is mixed with water.

Slave Porridge: A cold, unsweetened mixture of water and sa-tarna meal, with vegetables and shreds of meat added, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel'.See bond-maid gruel and Sa-Tarna Gruel. (Assassin of Gor, pg 126)

Sugars: Just as the name suggests-sugar, a sweet substance; NOTE Sugar is white and yellow.. NOT RED!

Sullage: This is a soup made from suls, turpah, and kes, or anything else one may have a desire to add; sullage is carefully prepared from wild onions, a mixture of a variety of mushrooms, sul, turpah, and blue kes with fresh herb seasonings and colored salts all to simmering; also prepared in the finesty vulo stock and thickened with verr cream; it is traditionally served in a footed clay bowl. (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 44)

Sulldede: This is sul that is baked or pickled, like earthen cabbage.

Yellow Bread: Sa-Tarna bread; served butter crusted with bosk butter.



~Dairy~

Bosk Cheese: Cheese from the milk of the bosk; it is sharp in taste; travels well and resists molds; it is a firm cheese that is often served sliced.

Butter: Butter is churned most often from the milk of the bosk and the verr.

Cheese: From either the Bosk or Verr. Sharp in taste and travels well. Resisting molds in their hard rinds. Variously described, i.e. melted to be served over broken open suls. (Assassins of Gor, pg 168)

Verr Cheese: Verr cheese is soft and can be mixed with herbs, chopped vegetables, or sweeteners; it is easily adapted to many recipes; this cheese is between a fetan and a cheddar and can be crumbly; its the perfect accent for fruit.



~Vegetables~

Carrots: This is a vegetable and is exported from the Tahari.

Common Gorean Vegetables: peas, beans, tomatoes, squash mushroom, turnips, carrots, radishes, onions, peas, cabbage, peppers, and garlic. Some seeds are imported from earth.

Garlic: Another food similar to the earthen counterpart.

Katch: This is a foliated leaf vegetable; similar to earthen lettuce, exported from the Tahari

Kes A shrub, blue secondary roots are salty. ingredient in sullage. (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 45)

Kort: This is a large, brownish-skinned sphere-shaped, thick-rinded, sphere-shaped vegetable; it is 6" in width; its interior is yellowish and fibrous and heavily seeded, exported from the Tahari.A large, brownish-skinned; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. (Tribesmen of Gor, pg 37)

Mushrooms: Another food similar to the earthen counterpart.

Onions: This vegetable is another export of the Tahari

Peas: There are baby butter peas, cow peas, black-eyed peas, and the common gorean pea.

Peppers: Another item similar to that of earth's.

Radishes: This is a root vegetable exported from the Tahari.

Stuffed Mushrooms: Mushrooms stuffed with tarsk sausage.

Sul: Golden brown, starchy, tuberous root of the Sul Plant (much like the potato of earth); this is used in distilled sul-paga; in serving, it is often broken open and filled with bosk cheese; may be steamed or simmered to soften as well; may be served sliced and fried. (also: tuber suls, exported from the Tahari)

Tur-pah: The tur-pah is an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; it grows on tur trees; is an ingredient in sullage. (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg 45)

Turian Olives: These olives of Turia are red.

Turnips: Similar to earth's: from Tyros.

Olives: Similar to the kind on earth.

Red Olives: Red olives.

Vangis: A type of produce sold at market; detailed description unavailable.



~Fruits~

Apricots: Similar to the earthen counterpart (Tribesmen of Gor)

Berries: A variety of berries grow on Gor; they can be found in the forests often when little other foods can be found (Hunters of Gor)

Blueberries: Smuggled from earth, very rare.

Celane Melons: This melon is similar to the earthen honeydew melon; it can be served chilled and sliced.

Cherries: Tyros cherries, famous. (Beasts of Gor, pg 349)

Kalana: fruit - eaten; from the kalana tree; made into kalana Wine. (Tarnsman of Gor, pg 26)

Larma: The larma is a luscious fruit, nicked 'the gorean peach'; it has a rather hard shell, but shell is brittle and easily broken; it is a 'pit fruit,' and tastes like a 'sour pear'; within, it is a fleshy endocarp; the fruit is delicious and very juicy; it has also been referred to as a single-seeded, apple-like fruit; it can be served with honey ladled over it; a note on roasted larma of the Tahari also appears with drizzled honey atop it; larma is also an export of the Tahari.
There is a special note on larma; In offering the larma, on gor, it is considered a plea for sexual use; when a woman is referred to as a larma, she has "a hard or frigid exterior, but is concealing a very different interior."

Larma, Apple-Like: Single-seeded apple-like fruit; a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed; commonly called pit fruit. (Players of Gor, pg 267)

Melon: The normal gorean melon is a red-striped sphere, there are various types of melons found in the Tahari.

Merlot Grapes: A darker grape, used to make Merlot wine.

Plums: Plums.

Raisins: Raisins.

Ram Berries: The ram berry (ram-berry) is a small, reddish fruit with edible seeds; they are like tiny plums save for the seeds; noted as 'small and succulant'; commonly used in pies; used as jam, can be applied to a willing slave; served also combined with honey.

Redfruit: These are similar in taste and flesh to the apples of earth.

Ta Grapes: These grapes are big, sweet and seedless; mainly imported from the vineyards of Tyros.

Tospit: Tospit is a very bitter, juicy citrus fruit that is yellowish and similar to the tangarine of earth; grown in the orchads of Turia; long-stemmed; even number of seeds; is a peach-like fruit, the size of a plum; these are very rare; often served dried, candied, or raw; exported from the Tahari.



~Candies, Sweets and Desserts~

Candied Tospit: No exact definition available, but it is of the fruit known as tospit which is normally bitter, in this case it would be sweetened.

Chocolate: Made from the coca beans, comes from the far south; normally brewed into a drink in the finer establishment; expensive. (Dancer of Gor, pg 63)

Date Nut Loaf: Made of the date nuts and is a rare treat for the nuts are rare; often served with verr butter or soft cheese on the side (Tribesmen of Gor)

hard candies: often sought after and highly prized as they are hard to obtain (Hunters of Gor)

Honey: Honey.

Pastry: mentioned but not much was said upon it (Assassin of Gor) Spices: Nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, spikenard, pepper, Sugar, Salt (Tribesmen of Gor)

Tasta: Tasta is a soft, rounded succulant stick candy, usually covered wiht a coating--syrup of fudge in the nature of a caramel apple, but much smaller; when prepared, the stick is thrust up into it; tasta is often sold at fairs, parks, and special occassions.