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This scroll was originally authored by Navarre-, First Captain of Kar and was a part of the Karian Notes. We owe Navarre a considerable debt of gratitude for his research and writing on this topic. |
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Grains | ||
| Black Bread | 8:13 | Baked from Gorean grains, heavy and dark |
| Pasta | 25:290 | Reference to noodles, there is pasta on Gor! |
| Rence, pith of | 6:7 | Edible (both raw and cooked) part of rence, it along with fish is the staple in rence growers diet. Also sometimes used for caulking. |
| Sa-tarna | 1:43 25:290 1:61 |
(Lit. life-daughter) baked, brewed, mashed, ground. A grain, yellow in color. It is a staple of Gor. It is brewed into Paga. It is also ground and used to bake the Sa-Tarna Bread that is a staple food at every Gorean meal. The bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into six sections. |
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Fruits | ||
| Blueberries | Smuggled to Gor from earth. Very rare. | |
| Celane melon | IRCism | Cantaloupe |
| Cherries | 12:349 | Tyros cherries, famous |
| Dates | 4:59 10:46 |
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. From the City of Tor. |
| Ka-la-na | 1:26 7:114 |
fruit - eaten, made into Ka-la-na Wine |
| Larma | 12:349 20:267 |
It is sometimes called the pit fruit, because of its large single stone. Fried larma with a browned honey sauce |
| Larma, succulent | 23:437 | Succulent, juicy, fruit; 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. |
| Larma, apple-like | 20:267 | Single-seeded apple-like fruit; a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed; commonly called pit fruit |
| Melon | 10:45 | Yellowish red-striped spheres |
| Merlot grapes | A darker grape, used to make Merlot wine. | |
| Olives | 6:114 | Red olives from Tyros |
| Peaches | 1:26 | Similar to earth peaches |
| Pit-fruit | 20:267 | Hard larma, a firm, single-seeded, apple-like fruit unlike the segmented, juicy |
| Ram berries | 7:305 | Small, reddish fruit with edible seeds, not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small seeds. Small, purple colored berries native to Gor. Eaten raw, jams, pies |
| Redfruit | IRCism | A sweet fruit that is similar in texture and taste to the earth apple. |
| Ta-grapes | 3:45 | Similar to Earth grapes; purple in color or white, and grown in the vineyards of Cos |
| Tospit | 4:59 10:46 |
Grows on bushes small yellow peach-like fruit. a bitter, juicy citrus fruit, similar to a lemon with a skin more like a husk. It is about the size of a plum. It is very bitter, but edible. The juice of the tospit is mixed with other fruit juices for a citrus drink. It is used as a garnish in the drink kal-da. To be eaten, it is candied or cut up and dipped in honey. Its name comes from the large number of seeds it contains. Tospit has two uses. The first as a food, the second as a target in quiva throwing games. |
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| Miscellaneous | peas, beans, tomatoes, squash, etc. From seed imported from Earth. | |
| Kes | 3:45 | A shrub, blue secondary roots are salty. ingredient in sullage. |
| Kort | 10:37 | A large, brownish-skinned, thick-rinded, sphere-shaped vegetable usually 6 inches in width. The interior is yellowish and fibrous, and heavily seeded; rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg |
| Sul | 11:134 16:231 |
Principle ingredient in sullage. Tuberous root of the sul plant a starchy, golden brown, vine borne fruit. Can also be baked, or sliced and fried - similar to a potato, except grows above ground. |
| Tur-pah | 3:45 25:244 |
An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; vegetable - ingredient in sullage |
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Spices and Candy | ||
| Chocolate | 19:63 | Made from the coca beans, comes from the far south. Normally brewed into a drink in the finer establishment, expensive |
| Tasta | 22:81 | Sweet, succulent candy on a stick; normally found in parks, promenades and popular events. Possibly coated with chocolate or fudge. Typical flavors include mint, licorice, fruit flavors, peppermint, etc. |
| Spices | 7:86 | nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, spikenard, pepper, Sugar |
| Salt | 4:59 | Salt,NaCl |
| Red salt | 10:238 | Some salt mines at Kasra and Tor, 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. A delicacy White Salt - comes from regular salt mines Yellow Salt - comes from the sea, and from Klima |
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Dairy | ||
| Cheese | 5:168 | 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. |
| Egg | 12:196 | Eggs of the migratory Arctic gant; when frozen they are eaten like apples. |
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Meat, Poultry, & Fish | ||
| Bosk | 4:4 | A large, shaggy, long-horned bovine similar to Earth's ox, providing food, and many other needs. The meat may be roasted, broiled, boiled, stewed, fried, or dried. |
| Eel | 25:428 | River, Black, and the Spotted eel are considered a delicacy |
| Gant, Marsh | 4:84 6:4 |
a small long-legged horned bird; broad-billed and broad-winged, hunted by marsh girls. |
| gant,jungle | 12:196 13:331 |
a bird, related to the marsh Gant, which inhabits the river in rainforests inland of Schendi Arctic. A migratory bird that nests in the mountain of Hrimgar on cliffs. When frozen, eggs are eaten like apples |
| Grunt | 9:59 11:360 13:267 24:246 |
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 |
| Sa-tassna | 1:43 | (Lit. Life-mother): meat; food in general |
| Tabuk | 3:191 12:152 2:48 |
A kind of antelope, being yellow in color and having a single horn |
| Tarsk | 2:76 13:346 |
Porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail, six tusks |
| Vulo | 4:1 | A tawny-colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild. Used for meat and eggs |
| WingFish | 4:84 6:139 |
Also known as song fish due to its whistling mating song; a 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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Dishes | ||
| Slave Porridge | 5:126 9:67 |
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'. |
| Sullage | 3:44 | Made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes along with whatever else may be handy. |
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