Foods
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• black bread : a soft, full flavored bread made from gorean grains. black bread is heavy and dark. it is commonly served with clotted bosk cream or honey.
• bond-maid gruel : see slave porridge
• bosk : though similar in build to the yak of Urth the bosk bears the heavier form of the Urth buffalo and like him, provides food, leather and many of the needs of the people of Gor. the meat may be roasted or broiled, dried, stewed or served in myriad ways.
• bosk cheese : a sharp cheese in taste which travels well and resists molds due to its hard rind.
• celane melon : a melon akin to Urth's honeydew.
• chocolate : made from beans brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Urth. It is often served in higher class establishments.
• cosian wingfish : tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
• dates : juicy and fat from the City of Tor.
• kanda : a shrub of the Gorean desert; a lethal poison can be extracted from its roots, while chewing the leaves has an addictive narcotic effect.
• katch : foliated leaf vegetable.
• kes : a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage.
• kort : a large, brownish, thick-rinded, spherical vegetable, usually 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish and heavily seeded. Coming from the Tahari, the kort is frequently served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg
• larma : succulent fruit, similar to the Urth peach. the larma is sometimes sliced, fried, and served with browned-honey sauce. Offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slavegirl to her Owner is a silent plea for the girl to be ravished.
• olives : are commonly from the city of Tor. (referred to as Torian Olives); also red olives which come from the groves of Tyros.
• parsit fish : a silvery fish having brown stripes
• ram-berries : small, succulent berries
• redfruit : similar in flesh and taste to apples of Urth.
• rence : a tufted, reed-like plant that grows in the marshes. the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The grain may be boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake.
• salt thassa fish : a small fish from the gleaming Thassa, served baked or broiled.
• sa-tarna (lit. 'life-daughter') : grain, specifically wheat
• sa-tarna bread : freshly baked from sa-tarna grain. round, flat cakes of baked sa-tarna meal. a hearty staple of life, and great for soaking up spilt paga.
• sa-tarna gruel : thick paste of boiled sa-tarna also known as bond-maid gruel. (see also slave porridge)
• Sa-Tassna (lit. 'life-mother'): meat; food in general
• sip root : a bitter root whose extract is the active ingredient in slave wine.
• slave porridge : a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which slaves are fed; in Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel', and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit fish.
• sorp : a shellfish common to the Vosk and other rivers. the sorp is similar to an oyster; and like oysters, it produces pearls and is frequently used in making soups and stews.
• sul : a tuberous vine-borne fruit similar to the Urth potato. Often served sliced and fried, it is also the principal ingredient in sullage and sul-paga.
• sullage : a soup made prinicipally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy.
• ta-grapes : big, sweet, and seedless; they are imported from the fabled hillside vineyards of Tyros, ally to Cos.
• tabuk : A swift gazelle like animal, having a yellow in color and a single horn. Known for their sweet meat, the Tabuk is generally served roasted.
• tamber gulf oysters : found in the Tamber Gulf, they are served raw or baked.
• tarsk : 1) porcine animal akin to the Urth pig, having 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.
• tarsk, giant : large cousin of the tarsk, standing 10 hands high at the shoulder.
• teslik : a plant whose extract is the active ingredient in breeding wine.
• toos : a crab-like organism with overlapping plating; inhabits the Nest and scavenges on discarded fungus spores.
• tospit : A bitter, juicy, citrus fruit; yellowish in color, somewhat similar to Urth's small tangerine. from the orchards of Turia. Long stemmed topsits contain an even number of seeds and are rare.
• tumit : tumits are large, flightless carniverous birds of the plains, often hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos, the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night.
• turian olives : red olives, primarily from Turia
• tur-pah : an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage.
• verr : a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill-tempered, with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form
of wool; its meat can be eaten and milk can be used for drinking or the making of cheese and butter.
• vosk sorp : a giant clam that thrives in the seas and marshes of Gor, the shell of which is large enough to be used as a throne.
• vulo : a tawny-colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs, served roasted and spiced or baked in spice leaves
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• wingfish : tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; found in the waters off Port Kar; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
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