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

Gorean Foods

Gorean Foods

Dairy Foods Butter Made from the milk of the verr or bosk... "'Olga,' he said, 'there is butter to be churning in the churning shed.' 'Yes, my Jarl,' said she, holding her skirt up, running from the place of our exercises." Marauders of Gor, page 101 "We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of butter." Marauders of Gor, page 101 "'These females,' she said, indicating the Forkbeard's girls, who knelt at her feet, their heads to the turf, 'could be better employed on your farm, dunging fields and making butter.'" Marauders of Gor, page 156 "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, page 81 Cheese Made from the milk of the bosk or verr. "In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine." Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 "The Tarn Keeper...brought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese." Assassin of Gor, page 168 "Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros." Raiders of Gor, page 114 Eggs Like chicken eggs on Earth but smaller, gathered from the vulo. Also at times eaten raw. "Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan…" Slave Girl of Gor, page 73 "Eta piled several of the hot, tiny eggs, earlier kept fresh in cool sand within the cave, on a plate, with heated yellow bread, for him." Slave Girl of Gor, page 73 Eggs of the White Grunt "In the hall was a open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. There were four men and two women at these tables, other than the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past several days, the Lady Metpomene. The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small pastries, and in a tiny golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt. The first wine, a light white wine, was being deferentially served by Pamela and Bonnie." Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275-276 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Meat Bosk Large cow like animal that provides meat and milk. The bosk also provides hides and fur for clothing, wagon covers, and tents. "The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an ox like creature. It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skin cover their bodies…" Nomads of Gor, pages 4-5 "With a serving prong, she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate." Guardsman of Gor, page 234 "I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo..." Hunters of Gor, page 34 "He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards." Beasts of Gor, Page 20 Sausage Made of various meats, tarsk sausage is the one mentioned directly. There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous cannisters of flour, sugars and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments. Assassins of Gor, page 271 Tabuk In the south, the tabuk is a yellow, one-horned antelope-like animal, used for meat, hides, and the like. The northern tabuk is much larger, tawny colored, also used for meat and hides. "They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift; many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted antelope-like quadruped of the south. On the other hand, they too were distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. A charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous animal." Beasts of Gor, page 152 "…my mouth watered for a tabuk steak…" Outlaw of Gor, page 76 "Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one of the one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-la-na thickets of Gor." Tarnsman of Gor, page 145 Tarsk Six-tusked wild boar, pork like meat. "My mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor`s temperate forests." Outlaw of Gor, page 76 "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." Raiders of Gor, page 44 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roated tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders of Gor, page 44 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Raiders of Gor, page 219 Verr Goat-like animal which provides meat and milk. "The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk, was strong." Savages of Gor, page 60 "In the cafes, I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod…" Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Poultry Marsh Gant "I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of Rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks." Raiders of Gor, page 4 I had also been used to carry heavy kettles of rence beer from the various islands to the place of feasting, as well as strings of water gourds, poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks, and baskets of the pith of rence. Raiders of Gor, page 41 "The cries of the marsh gants were about us now. I saw that her hunting had been successful. There were four of the birds tied in the stern of the craft." Raiders of Gor, page 10 "...poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks..." Raiders of Gor, page 41 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders of Gor, page 44 Tumits "I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless, carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand..." Nomads of Gor, page 331 Vulo Poultry like meat, and eggs (and brain) "I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth…" Nomads of Gor, page 84 "Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan…" Slave Girl of Gor, page 73 "I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo...I held the leg of the fried vulo toward one of the girls..." Hunters of Gor, page 34 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Breads Biscuits …brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour." Savages of Gor, page 328 Sa Tarna Yellow bread made from Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked in round loaves and a staple served with most Gorean meals. Also used to brew paga. "There were great quantites of the yellow Sa-Tarna bread, in its rounded, six-part loaves." Raiders of Gor, page 114 "...the yellow bread, warm and fresh..." Beasts of Gor, page 349 "'Bread, Master?' she asked. She offered me a silver tray on which, hot and steaming, were wedges of Gorean bread, made from Sa-Tarna grain. I took one of them and, from the tureen, with the small silver dipper, both on the tray, poured hot butter on the bread." Rogue of Gor, page 191 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Fish Cosian Wingfish Called due to its ability to fly above the waters of Cos for short distances. Its livers are considered a delicacy. "'Now this,' Saphrar the merchant was telling me, 'is the braised liver of the blue four-spired Cosian wingfish. This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, 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; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines. This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. The blue, four-spired wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies.'" Nomads of Gor, pages 84-85 Eels "Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros." Raiders of Gor, page 114 Oysters "Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk" Captive of Gor, page 301 Parsit Fish "The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing. The slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and the fall, be taken in great numbers." Marauders of Gor, page 27 "The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands. Trade to the south, of course is largely in furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, Page 28 "The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverfish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width. Another of the bond-maids was then freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then stirring in the raw fish." Marauders of Gor, page 63-64 White Grunt "Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, page 59 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Fruits Apricots "I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices." Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 Berries "I felt the pull of a strap on my throat, and opened my eyes. By a long leather strap, some ten feet in length, I was fastened by the neck to Ute. We were picking berries." Captive of Gor, page 208 Dates "The principal export of the oases are dates, or pressed-date bricks." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Larma"I took a slice of hard larma from the tray. This is a firm, single-seeded, applelike 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, page 267 "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. Sometimes, when a woman is referred to as a `larma,' it is suggested that her hard or frigid exterior conceals a rather different sort of interior, one likely to be quite delicious." Renegades Of Gor, page 437 Melons"'Buy melons!' called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me." Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 Peaches "On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion, to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood….Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh." Tribesmen of Gor, pages 27-28 Plums"I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums." Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 Raisins "…vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Tribesmen of Gor, page 45 Ramberries "A guard was with us, and we were charged with filling our leather buckets with ram-berries, a small reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike plums save for the many small seeds." Captive of Gor, page 305 Ta-Grapes "The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta-grapes from the lower vine-yards of the terraced island of Cos..." Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45 Tospit "Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of tospit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars." Rogue of Gor, page 132 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Vegetables Carrots "…a foliated leaf vegetable, called katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Katch"…a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch…" Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Kes "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, …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, page 45 Kort "…a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Onions"…vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 "I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Outlaw of Gor, page 29 Peas "I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas, and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine." Assassin of Gor, page 87 Radishes "…a foliated leaf vegetable, called katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Red Olives "Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros." Raiders of Gor, page 114 Suls A root vegetable, similar to the potato and used as such; though also distilled to make sul-paga. "The sul is a large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed, root vegetable. It is very common on this world. There are a thousand ways in which it is prepared. It is fed even to slaves. I had had some at the house; narrow, cooked slices, smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt, fed to me by hand." Dancer of Gor, page 80 "With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate." Guardsman of Gor, page 234 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Raiders of Gor, page 219 Turnips "…a foliated leaf vegetable, called katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties, and korts, a large brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellow, fibrous, and heavily seeded." Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Spices Garlic "I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut." Outlaw of Gor, page 29 Honey"In the cafes I had feasted well. I had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted; vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey; a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg; hot Bazi tea, sugared and later, Turian wine." Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 "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, page 81 Nutmeg "..a kort with melted cheese and nutmeg." Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 Peppers "Some of the peppers and spices, relished even by the children of the Tahari districts, were sufficient to convince an average good fellow of Thentis or Ar that the roof of the mouth and his tongue were being torn out of his head." Tribesmen of Gor, page 46 Salt Comes in two varieties, red or white. Most salt is mined in Klima, though the Torvaldlanders get their salt from sea water or seaweed. "Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines deliver red salt, red from the 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, page 238 "…salt, incidentally, is obtained by the men of Torvaldsland, most commonly, from sea water or the burning of seaweed. It is also, however, a trade commodity, and is sometimes taken in raids. The red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland." Marauders of Gor, pages 186-187 "...Near him in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt...." Nomads of Gor, page 253 Sugar Two varieties of sugar: white and yellow. "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…" Tribesmen of Gor, page 89 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Miscellaneous Candy "He yelled something raucous and ribald. It had to do with "tastas" or "stick candies." These are not candies, incidentally, like sticks, as for example, licorice or peppermint sticks, but 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." ... "These candies are usually sold at such places as parks, beaches, and promenades, at carnivals, expositions and fairs, and at various types of popular events, such as plays, song dramas, races, games, and kaissa matches. They are popular even with children." ... "The expression was sometimes used by men for women such as we." Dancer of Gor, page 81 Nuts "…vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions, and honey." Tribesmen of Gor, page 47 Pastries "On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards." Nomads of Gor, page 238 "I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes-things they will not trust their female slaves to buy." Guardsman of Gor, Page 239 Rence Water plant used for food, paper or cloth. The pith (or center of the stem) is edible. Can be made into pastes or porridges. Also used to make into rence beer. "The plant has many uses besides serving as a raw product in the manufacture of rence paper…from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further it's pith is edible…" Raiders of Gor, page 7 "In the morning, before dawn, she had placed in my mouth a handful of rence paste." Raiders of Gor, page 28 "In a moment the woman had returned with a double handful of wet rence paste. When fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds." Raiders of Gor, page 25 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Raiders of Gor, page 44 Sullage Common Gorean soup made with sul, tur-pah and kes. "First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients, and, as 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 curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite,… and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes shrub…" Priest Kings of Gor, page 45 Tur-Pah "One of the principal ingredients of Sullage, a common Gorean soup. "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, …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, page 45 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Raiders of Gor, page 219

Foods / Drinks

Foods/Drinks

Gorean food is quite varied. Slave girls are trained to serve, prepare and cook a wide variety of foods and recipes. Even free women also learn how to prepare many recipes. Paga kajirae must be familiar with many foods and beverages so that they can properly serve the patrons of the tavern. Some foods and beverages are very similar to Earth ones and others are uniquely Gorean. Not all of the foods will be available everywhere on Gor. Some are regional items that would be very rare outside of their place of origin. Some items would be too expensive for a Home Stone to keep in stock, such as Falarian wine or black wine. Other items would be difficult to obtain. For example, Thentis would see little need to stock fermented milk curds, a drink of the Wagon Peoples. There is little cold storage on Gor. Most food is preserved by being dried or salted. Ice is cut from ponds in winter and then stored in icehouses under sawdust. You may go to the icehouse to get it, or have it delivered from ice wagons. Ice is an expensive luxury, especially in the summer. Homes will have cold storage areas. It would be much more common for them to store certain foods and drinks in a basement area to keep it cool, though not really cold. An amphora is a two-handled, narrow-necked vessel with a narrow, usually pointed base. It is a storage container for liquids and is commonly put into a storage hole in the ground at night to keep it cool. The most common utensils used on Gor are knives and spoons. There is an eating prong, similar to a fork, which was invented in Turia. It is not commonly used outside of that city. The wealthy of other cities though may use these prongs. Goreans are very sociable people and enjoy giving dinners and having parties. At such events, it is an honor to be seated above the bowls of red and yellow salts. It denotes your high station and status. The Turian feast is a unique dinner. It consumes the better part of a night and there may be as many as 150 courses. Etiquette requires that you at least taste each course. Guests may use a tufted banquet stick, dipped in scented oils, and a golden bowl to vomit into between courses. Different wines are commonly served with each course, specially chosen to complement the cuisine. There is no precise Gorean expression for a restaurant. There are public kitchens where people can get a meal but they are more functional than social places. You can get food at paga taverns and cafes but those establishments serve many other functions as well. There is no social place where you simply go to eat that would be akin to an Earth restaurant.

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.

Miscellaneous Foods

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 blackwine 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.

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.

Fish and Meats

Fish/SeafoodEel: 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.  Meats/PoultryBosk: 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.

Drinks

Ale: Made from grains and hops that were brought to Gor during the acquisition voyages. Gorean ale is closer to a honey lager than to an Earth ale or beer. Its color is deep and golden. Traditionally kept in a cask or a keg and served in a tankard. Bazi Tea: An herbal tea that comes in all varieties like tea on Earth. There is no specific reference, but the tea seems to be common, enjoyed by all castes. It is commonly served hot and heavily sugared. Black Wine: Made from beans brought back to Gor during the early acquisition voyages and grown in the mountains of Thentis, black wine is Gor's equivalent of Earth's coffee. It’s described as very strong which would come close to earth espresso. It is served hot in a clay bowl or cup. It may be served with creams or sugars. When served with cream or sugar, it is called first slave and, when served with none, it is second slave. Chocolate: Brought back from one of the early acquisition voyages, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth. It is brewed from cocoa beans grown in the tropics. The powdered beans are warmed along with milk, sugars and cream and served in cups. If wanted cold, serve in goblets. Falarian Wine: A supposedly secret, rare wine that is rumored among collectors to exist. It is so rare and precious that its cots might purchase a city. Fermented Milk Curds: A Tuchuk drink made from bosk milk and very potent. It would be served in a bowl. Flavored Ice: Similar to snow cone ice or Slurpee ice in consistency. Fruit Juice: Prepared from Gorean fruits, such as tospit, larma, including those similar to Earth fruits. Juices are generally served in a goblet freshly prepared, or from a pitcher or bottle that is kept chilled. Ka-la-na: Made from the fruit of the ka-la-na tree, this is a sweet, strong, red wine and symbol of romantic love. It has various levels of quality, the best being said to come from Ar. Ka-la-na is poured from bottles which might bear the wax seal of the city it came from and served hot, cold, or warm in a goblet. Warmed ka-la-na is also seen served in the Gorean enameled trimmed clay bowl called a krater. It is known to have an aphrodisiac effect on females. Although the ka-la-na tree is described as yellow or golden, the wine itself is always red. Ka-la-na, Mulled: Ka-la-na is heated with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of ka-la-na fruit or tospit, it is served in a goblet. Kal-da: It is a cheap ka-la-na wine mixed with citrus juices, such as tospit and larma, and spices (cinnamon and nutmeg). Heated in a brewing pot over a fire, kal-da is served hot, almost scalding, in a heavy mug, such as clay. Liana Vine: A rain forest plant which can be used as a source of drinking water. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water. Mead: Made in Torvaldsland from fermented honey and water, often with spices, it is a dark amber drink, thick and sweet. Served traditionally warmed and in a drinking horn. Stored in bottles. Milk: Fresh milk can be of bosk, verr, and occasionally kaiila. Bosk milk is rich and sweet while verr milk has a strong flavor. Kaiila milk is reddish with a strong salty taste, having high iron content. All milk is normally served in a goblet as desired. Paga: Same as Pagar-Sa-Tarna. Pagar-Sa-Tarna: Pagar-Sa-Tarna means "pleasure of the life-daughter". Paga, a corruption of the name, is the symbol of physical love. It is an amber-colored, alcoholic beverage made from the golden sa-tarna grain. Its taste is often described as hot and fiery and similar to whiskey. It’s normally stored in vats, verr skin botas or bottles. It’s often also drunk directly from the bota or poured into goblets, pots, cups, glasses or kantharos (footed bowls), but most often, it is bota, footed bowl or goblet. Paga can be served chilled, warmed or at room temperature. Palm Wine: A major export of Schendi with a delicious flavor. Rence Beer: A drink that is steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the rence plant. It is the drink of the rence growers. Usually kept in gourd flagons. Sa-Paga: Same as Pagar-Sa-Tarna Sul Paga: Made from the golden vine-borne vegetable called "sul" (similar to a potato), sul-paga is a distilled, clear alcoholic beverage like vodka, though the sul itself is yellow in color. Typically drunk by peasants and seldom available outside their villages, it would be a rarity in a paga tavern to find it available. It is served at room temperature in a footed bowl. Ta Wine: A sweet, dry wine made from the ta-grapes grown primarily on the terraces of the Isle of Cos. The color of this wine is not stated in the books. It’s served chilled or room temperature and in a goblet. Turian Liqueur: The liqueurs of Turia are regarded as the best on Gor. Turian wines are sweet, syrupy, flavored and sugared heavily. Served in small glasses. Turian Wine: A thick syrupy wine so sweet and thick that it is said one can see a thumbprint on its surface. The wine may commonly be cut with water. This occurs often when wine is drunk at homes at meals, at certain parties and in some taverns. A wine krater, a mixing bowl, is used to mix the wine and water. "Krater" is an ancient Greek term that means "mixing bowl." If the wine is not cut, it might also be served in very small amounts. At more raucous parties or taverns, the wine is rarely cut or only in a slight amount. Served at room temperature or chilled in a goblet, when cut with water, and in tiny liqueur glasses when not cut. Water: Drinking water is obtained in many ways; from a spring, wells, buckets filled at the river shore or river depending on the area. Another useful source of water is the liana vine. White Wine: Light in color and taste. This is not necessarily ka-la-na wine.

Bread and Dairy

BreadsBiscuits: 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.  DairyButter: 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.

Foods of Gor

This page describes the foods found on Gor.

Note: not every item mentioned on this page can be found all around Gor (larma, for example, doesn't grow in Torvaldsland).

Sa-Tassna
"Interestingly enough, the word for meat is Sa-Tassna, which means Life-Mother. Incidentally, when one speaks of food in general, one always speaks of Sa-Tassna." Tarnsman of Gor, p. 43

Dairy

• butter - Churned from bosk or verr milk.
• cheese - Made from bosk or verr milk.
• creams
• vulo eggs - The tiny eggs of the vulo, small pigeon-like birds.
• arctic gant eggs

Grains and Breads

• blackbread
• corn, maize
• rice
• Sa-Tarna -   Staple Gorean grain. Most sa-tarna is yellow, but a brownish variety grows in the desert. Sa-tarna is also used to make "paga" (short for Pagar Sa-tarna), a strong drink very common on Gor.
• Sa-Tarna bread (yellow bread) -   Baked in flat, round loaves; usually with eight divisions per loaf, sometimes with four divisions.
• slave bread

Meats

• bosk - Comparable to the cow or ox from Earth; it is called the Mother of the Wagon Peoples. There exist fifteen varieties of bosk.
• kailiauk - It is a staple of the Red Savages. "Kailiauk are four-legged, wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants. Their herds are usually found in the savannahs and plains north and south of the rain forests, but some herds frequent the forests as well. These animals are short-trunked and tawny. They commonly have brown and reddish bars on the haunches. The males, tridentlike, have three horns. These horns bristle from their foreheads. The males are usually about ten hands at the shoulders and the females about eight hands."
• marsh gant - A waterfowl with long legs and broad wings that inhabits the rence islands.
• pemmican - "'Wakapapi', said Cuwignaka to me. This is the Kaiila word for pemmican. A soft cake of this substance was pressed into my hands. I crumbled it. In the winter, of course, such cakes can be frozen solid. One then breaks them into smaller pieces, warms them in one's hands and mouth, and eats them bit by bit. I lifted thecrumbled pemmican to my mouth and ate of it. There are various ways in which pemmican may be prepared, depending primarily on what one adds into the mixture, in the way of herbs, seasonings and fruit. A common way of preparing it is as follows. Strips of kailiauk meat, thinly sliced and dried on poles in the sun, are pounded fine, almost to a powder. Crushed fruit, usually chokecherries, is then added to the meat. The whole, then, is mixed with, and fixed by, kailiauk fat, subsequently, usually, being divided into small, flattish, rounded cakes. Blood Brothers of Gor, p. 46
• tabuk - Similar to an antelope, its meat has a sweet taste. There are several varieties of tabuk on Gor (common, northern, prairie)
• common tabuk - "Once I brought the carcass of a tabuk, one of Gor's single-horned, yellow antelopes, which I had felled in a ka-la-nathicket, to the hut of a peasant and his wife. Asking no questions, as was suitable given the absence of insignia on my garments, they feasted me on my own kill, and gave me fiber, and flints and a skin of wine." Outlaw of Gor
• tarsk - Described as a wild boar. Its meat has a salty taste. There are several varieties of this animal; the giant tarsk among them, which stands ten hands at the shoulder.
• tumit - A huge carnivorous bird of the plains.
• verr - Similar to a sheep or goat.
• vulo - A small poultry bird similar to a pigeon, raised for meat and eggs.
• sausages

Fish and Seafood

• Cosian wingfish - A small, blue fish found in the waters of Cos. Other varieties can be found out at sea.
• eels - Several varieties are mentioned. "Many estates, particularly country homes, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies." Magicians of Gor, p. 428
• oysters - Found in the delta of the river Vosk.
• parsit fish - A small, narrow, usually striped fish. There are several varieties. It is one of the ingredients of bondmaid gruel in Torvaldsland.
• snails
• white-bellied grunt - A big game fish found in the Polar North.
• white-bellied grunt, eggs of - Comparable perhaps to caviar; they seem to be served as appetizers.

Fruit

• apricots
• cherries
• chokecherries
• dates
• ka-la-na fruit - The fruit of the ka-la-na tree, also used to make a dry red wine.
• larma, hard - Similar to an apple. Also called 'pit fruit'.
• larma, juicy - A red, segmented fruit with a hard shell. Some people have compared it to a tangerine. Warning: many on irc consider offering of larma to show a desire for sexual conduct
• melons - Various sorts are mentioned, but only one is described.
• nuts
• peaches - Not described, but both 'peaches' and 'yellow Gorean peaches' are mentioned. I do not know if they are different from each other, or if they are just the same peach.
• plums
• pomegranates
• raisins - Probably made from Ta grapes, since that is the only type of grape mentioned.
• ramberries - A small reddish fruit, similar to a plum, but with many seeds.
• Ta grapes - Purple grapes, often associated with the island of Cos, but grown in several other places as well. Also used to make Ta wine
• tospit - A yellowish citrus fruit, about the size of a plum, very rich in vitamin C. It's very bitter. There are two varieties.

Vegetables

• beans
• cabbages
• carrots
• garlic
• katch - Some people say it can be compared perhaps to spinach; others have compared it to lettuce.
• kes - A small plant whose secondary roots are one of the main ingredients of sullage.
• kort - "…and korts, a large, brownish-skinned, thick-skinned, sphere-shaped vegetable, usually some six inches in width, the interior of which is yellowish, fibrous and heavily seeded. At the oasis, because of the warm climate, the farmers can grow two or more crops a year." Tribesmen of Gor, p. 37
• mul-fungus - A type of fungus eaten by the 'muls' (slaves of the Priest Kings) in the Nest.
• mushrooms
• olives - Red olives from Tyros, and olives (not described) from Tor.
• onions
• peas - Peas and 'Gorean peas' are mentioned, but not described.
• peppers
• pumpkins
• radishes
• rence - A water plant that grows in the marshes in the delta of the river Vosk. It is used for many purposes, from food to making paper (each part of the plant is used for something).
• suls - Supposedly similar to the potatoes of Earth; described in the books as a starchy tuber plant. They are also used to make 'sul paga', a very strong peasant drink.
• turnips
• tur-pah - "… reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of tur-pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the tur-pah, incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kindof soup…" Nomads of Gor, p. 217

Herbs, spices and sweeteners

• honey
• sesame seeds
• salt - Red, yellow and white salt are mentioned in the books. The red and yellow salts are found in the south.
• sugar - There seem to be at least four different types of sugar on Gor. The only colours mentioned, though, are white and yellow.
• spices mentioned in the books: cinnamon; clove; nutmeg: garlic

Desserts

• biscuits - "Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour." Savages of Gor, p. 328
• cakes, pastires, tarts - various types
• custards - "The girls, carrying their trays, knelt before the table. (…) On one tray were assorted pastries; on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards." Guardsman of Gor, p. 239
• puddings - "Verr was roasted, and puddings made. Sa-Tarna bread was brought forth and heated." Slave Girl of Gor

Confections

• candies
• hard candy, various flavors
• chocolate -   self explanatory, cocoa beans imported from Urth and grown on Gor
• flavoured ices - shaved ice, I assume, flavored with sweet syrups
• mint sticks - small sticks of candy similar to peppermint, I assume
• tastas - Rounded candy mounted on a stick.

Soups, stews

• slave porridge - Sa-tarna meal mixed with water, also called 'slave gruel'. The Torvaldslanders call it bond-maid gruel and add raw parsit fish to it.
• soup - Soup, thick with shreds of hot bosk and porous chunks of boiled sul."
• sullage -   A soup common on Gor, made mainly of suls, tur-pah and kes, and 'whatever else may be found'.