Drinks and Food

Drinks and Food of Gor:

Drinks:

• Bazi tea: an herbal beverage served hot & heavily sugared; traditionally drunk 3 tiny cups at a time, in rapid succession. Tribesmen of Gor pgs 38, 140; Beasts of Gor pg 206
• Blackwine: very strong coffee; traditionally served with colored sugars and powdered bosk milk, and in tiny cups.  Tarnsmen of Gor pg 89, Explorers of Gor pg 10
• Kaiila Milk (Sand): reddish and salty, high in ferrous sulfate.  Tribesmen of Gor pg 72
• Ka-la-na: a very potent dry red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. Tarnsmen of Gor pgs 79 & 168
• Kal-da: alcoholic beverage made of ka- la-na wine diluted with citrus juices and mixed with strong spices, and served hot. Outlaw of Gor pg 76
• Mead: ale, made with fermented honey, water, spices - favored over hot paga in the north;  Vagabonds of Gor pg 16
• Paga:  a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gors staple crop, Sa-Tarna, or Life Daughter. The expression is related to Sa-Tassna, the expression for meat, or food in general, which means Life-Mother.  Tarnsman of Gor pg 43-44;  Paga is a corruption of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, which means Pleasure of the Life Daughter. Tarnsman of Gor pg 61; Outlaw of Gor pg 74
• Slave Wine (Sip Root): A bitter root, which can either be made into a liquid contraceptive, or chewed, for the same result. The effect of the sip root, in most women is effective for three or four months. In the concentrated state, as in slave wine, developed by the caste of Physicians, the effect is almost indefinite, usually requiring a releaser for it remission, usually administered, to a slave, in what is called the breeding wine, or the second wine.  Blood Brothers of Gor page 319
• Sul-paga: Sul paga is, when distilled, though the Sul itself is yellow, as clear as water. The Sul is a tuberous root of the Sul plant; it is a Gorean staple. Sul paga is almost tasteless. One does not guzzle Sul paga.  Slave Girl of Gor pg 134

Food:   This section contains food aside from the animals of Gor.

• Apricots: fruit.   Tribesmen of Gor pg 45
• Bond-Maid Gruel: a porridge served in Torvaldsland made of dampened Sa-Tarna and raw fish. Marauders of Gor pg 67
• Chocolate: first cocoa beans probably came from Earth, Cosians obtain them in the tropics, rich and creamy. Kajira of Gor pg 61
• Dates: fruit.  Tribesmen of Gor pg 46
• Eggs, artic gant: when frozen are eaten like apples. Beasts of Gor pg 196
• Katch: foliated leafy vegetable   Tribesmen of Gor pg 37
• Kort: A large, brownish-skinned, thick-rinded, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually 6" in width. The interior is yellowish and fibrous, and heavily seeded; a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.  Tribesman of Gor pg 37
• Larma: "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." Renegades of Gor pg 437
• firm, single-seeded, apple like fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, and perhaps more aptly, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone. Players of Gor pg 267
• Nuts: fruit; ingredient for vulo stew  Tribesmen of Gor pg 47
• Onion: vegetable  Tribesmen of Gor pg 46
• Peppers: vegetable  Tribesmen of Gor pg 47
• Pith: stem of the rence plant; edible; most common staple in rence growers diet; edible both raw and cooked  Raiders of Gor pg 7
• Plum: fruit   Tribesmen of Gor pg 45
• Ram-Berries: small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small seeds.  Captive of Gor pg 305
• Rence Paste: wet; when fried on a flat stone it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds   Raiders of Gor pg 25
• Salt: "Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from ferrous oxide in its composition, which is called the Red Salt of Kasra, after its port of embarkation, at the juncture of the Upper and Lower Fayeen."  Tribesmen of Gor pg 238
• yellow salt   Nomads of Gor pg 253
• Sa-Tarna Bread: baked in small, round loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf. Some smaller loaves are divided into four divisions. These division are a function, presumably, of their simplicity, the ease with which they may be made, the ease with which, even without explicit measurement, equalities may be produced. Kajira of Gor pg 216; yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves. Outlaw of Gor pg 76
• Slave Gruel: dried, precooked meal, water is then mixed with it, forms a sort of cold porridge or gruel.  Kajira of Gor pg 257
• Sugar: "With a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure." Tribesmen of Gor pg 89
• Sul: the sul is a large, thick skinned, starchy, yellow fleshed, root vegetable. a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried in butter and salted.  Dancer of Gor pg 80
• Sullage: a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients and, it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden brown vine borne fruit of the golden leafed sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil. Priest-Kings of Gor pg 44 - 45
• Ta-grape: A Gorean grape - "I retrieved a grape about the size of a small plum from the table before it could be cleared away. It was peeled and pitted, doubtless laboriously by female slaves. It was a Ta-Grape."  Players of Gor pg 291 - 292
• Tasta: Stick candy, 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 then the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it.  Dancer of Gor pg 81
• Tospit: a small, wrinkled yellowish white peach like fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, They are bitter but edible. Nomads of Gor pg. 59; rare, long-stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds.  Tribesmen of Gor pgs 45 & 46
• Tur-Pah:  a vine-like vegetable   Magicians of Gor pg 244