Prepared Foods

Bonds-maid Gruel: A thick gruel, that of dampened Sa-Tarna meal and raw fish.

Breads:

BISCUITS: Flat pressed biscuits, baked from Sa-Tarna flour.
BLACK BREAD
SA-TARNA BREAD: Bread baked from Sa-Tarna grain. Yellowish in color and usually split into eight divisions. It is baked as a round, flat loaf.

Cakes: Fried maize, honey, pemmican and rence.
Candies: Mint sticks.
Chocolate: The beans were originally taken from Earth, it is now grown and used on Gor as well.
Flavored Ices: Similar to sherbets.
Honey
Pastries
Salt:

RED: Known as the ‘Red Salt of Kasra,’ it contains ferrous oxide, which gives it it’s color.
WHITE: Untainted Sea Salt. The main type of salt is found at the salt mine of Klima.
YELLOW: Table Salt, mentioned and spoken as ‘of the South,’ but otherwise, not described.

Slave Porridge: Extremely nourishing, though very bland, made for consumption by slaves.
Sugar: There is specifically mentioned four Gorean sugars, though only two, white and yellow, are ever mentioned by color.
Sullage: A common Gorean soup, consisting of three standard ingredients, and it is said, whatever else maybe found.
Tarts
Tasta: Small, round succulent candy, coated in syrup or fudge and then mounted upon a stick for easy handling and eating.

Gorean Food

  *MEAT*

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Bosk: Similar to the yak or buffalo of Earth, this huge animal with its thick, Humped neck and long, shaggy hair, provides food, leather, milk and other essentials.Tabuk: Single horned antelope. Northern tabuk is bigger than the southern, both are well known for their single horns and sweet meat.Tarsk: A six tusks, wild boar, it’s meat is normally roasted of baked whole.Verr: A long-haired mountain goat with spiral horns, is raised for their wool, meat and milk.

*FOUL*

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Gart: Small, horned, web-footed aquatic foul, with broad-bill and wings.

Tumit: Large, Flightless, carnivorous bird of the Southern Plains. It’s about the size of an ostrich with a long-hooked beak about the size of a man’s forearm.

Vulo: A domesticated pigeon, raised mostly for it’s meat and eggs.

*SEAFOOD*

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Eel: Various types are raised to be consumed and are considered to be a delicacy.Grunts: Large game fish, found in Plankton Banks. Their tiny black eggs are also for eating.Oysters: Much the same as the ones from Earth, known as a delicacy.Parsit Fish: Delicate, silvery-brown striped fish, that is commonly used for slave gruel or Sa-Tarna porridge or bonds-maid gruel.Sorp: Type of shell fish.Sea-Sleen: Within the polar seas, there are the black, brown, tusked and flat-nosed sleens. Their skins are used for leather garments and their oils for polishing.Wingfish: Regarded as a delicacy, Small, blue fish, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one’s hand, it has three of four poisonous spines on it’s dorsal fin. 

*VEGETABLES*

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Beans
Cabbages
Carrots
Corn
Katch: Foliated leaf vegetable.
Kes: A shrub, whose salty-blue, secondary roots are used in Sullage, a common Gorean soup.
Mul-Fungus: Feb to the Huls within the Nest, pale with almost no taste. A fibrous vegetable like matter.
Mushrooms
Onions
Peas
Pumpkins/Squash
Radishes
Rence: A water plant; the grain is eaten and the stems harvested and pressed into paper or woven into cloth. The pith maybe boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened; this paste can also be fried into a type of pancake.
Suls: A large, thick-skinned, yellow-fleshed root vegetable.
Turnips
Tur-Pah: A vine-like tree, parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate and edible leaves. Used in making Sullage, a Gorean soup.

*FRUIT*

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Apricots
Berries
Cherries
Dates
Ka-la-na: The fruit makes a red wine and cones from yellow trees.
Larma: Two types of larma: one is a single seeded fruit, rather like an apple. The other is a segmented juicy larma, that can be served fried with a browned-honey sauce.
Melons
Nuts
Olives
Peaches
Plums
Raisins
Ram-Berries: Small, reddish fruit with edible seeds.
Ta-Grapes: Used to make ta-wine, a thick and sweet, supposedly white wine.
Tospits: A bitter, yellowish white, peach like fruit about the size of a plum.

*DAIRY*

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Cheese: Pressed from the milk of the bosk or Verr.
Milk and Butter: From Bosk or Verr.
Eggs: From the Artic Gant, Vulo and White Grunt.

Gorean Drinks

Ale: Gorean ale is closer to a honey lager, than to an ale or beer. A deep gold in color, and brewed from the grains of Gor and hops, imported from Earth, in the early years. It is traditionally served in tankards or horns.
Bazi Tea: An herbal beverage, served hot and heavily sugared; traditionally drunk in three tiny cups at a time, in rapid succession.
Beer: RENCE: Steeped and fermented from the pith and crushed seeds of the rence plant, it is a drink of the rence growers of the Delta of the Vosk. Stored in casks.
Black Wine: Coffee; Traditionally served with white and yellow sugars and powdered bosk milk, in tiny cups; although in most taverns it is served in mugs. It is grown on the slopes of Thentis, it is thought to have come from Earth on a slave acquisition run. If asked to be serve as “Second Slave,” means to serve it black.
Breeding Wine: A sweet beverage, which counter acts the effects of the Slave Wine, making a slave girl fertile; also called ‘second wine,’ it’s made from the extract of the Teslik plant.
Chocolate: Made from the beans that was brought back on one of the early Voyages of Acquisition, this is the same as the chocolate of Earth. It is served in higher class establishments.
Falarian Wine: An exquisite, rare and fabulously expensive wine, it’s cost would purchase a city. It’s existence, is only rumored among collectors.
Fermented Milk Curds: A Tuchuk drink, made from fermented bosk curds.
Ka-la-na: A very potent and dry red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree. Like the wines of Earth, the quality of Ka-la-na varies from that of a common table wine to premium brands. Ar is particularly noted for it’s production of fine Ka-la-na. Ka-la-na is also reported to have an aphrodisiac effect on females.
Kal-da: An alcoholic beverage made of Ka-la-na wine diluted with citrus juices, such as tospit and larma, mixed with strong spices and served hot.
Liana Vine: A rainforest plant in which can be used as a source of drinking water.
Mead: Preferred beverage of the Northland, made with fermented honey, water and spice; traditionally served in a large animal horn.
Milk: BOSK: Rich, thick and taste sweet.
SAND KAIILA: Reddish with a strong, salty taste.
VERR: Thin, with a sharp sort of taste.Mulled Ka-la-na: Heated Ka-la-na with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of Ka-la-na fruit or tospit. Served warm in a goblet.
Paga: Grain based, distilled hard liquor, a kin to whiskey; Sometimes served warm to very hot. This is a drink, most often serve in Taverns, in a variety of vessels.
Sa-Tarna Paga: Usually known as paga. It is a brewed from the grain of Sa-Tarna and is similar to Earth whiskey. It symbolizes physical love (lust), and is served in a footed bowl, also kept warm in botas by the fire pit. Paga may also be served chilled.
Slave Wine: Brewed from bitter herbs, it acts as a contraceptive. Taken once per month.
Sul-Paga: Alcoholic beverage made from suls, which are similar to Earth’s potatoes; A kin to vodka.
Ta-Wine: A dry wine, made from Ta-grapes, from the Isle of Cos; served at room temperature or warm, in a tankard or goblet.
Turian Wine: A thick syrupy wine, so sweet and thick, that it is said, that one can see a thumbprint on it’s surface.
Water: Spring water from the mountains, the liana vine or the carpet plants from the rainforest area, inland of Schendi.
White Wine: A wine, light in color and taste. It is not described in detail, but just as white wine.