Breads and Grains
Rice
Not specified as being different from earth rice, there is no mention of which part of Gor this cereal is grown in.
I went to the side and removed a bowl from its padded, insulating wrap. Its contents were still warm. It was a mash of cooked vulo and rice. -Players of Gor
Sa-Tarna
Most commonly yellow grain that is a staple of Gor; it is used to make bread as well as brewing paga.Note that it is said a darker form of it is grown in the Tahari desert.
Economically, the base of the Gorean life was the free peasant, which was perhaps the lowest but undoubtedly the most fundamental caste, and the staple crop was a yellow grain called Sa-Tarna, or Life-Daughter. -Tarnsman of Gor, Page 43
Black Bread
Presumably made of Sa-Tarna grain even though the actual bread is described as black rather than the habitual yellow Sa-Tarna loaf.
The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings and the labor of the oar.-Hunters of Gor, Page 13
Dairy
Butter
Made from the milk of the verr or bosk.
We stopped by the churning shed, where Olga, sweating, had finished making a keg of butter. -Marauders of Gor, Page 101
Cheese
Made from the milk of the bosk or verr.
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
Eggs
Vulo eggs: Goreans eat the eggs of the vulo, a fowl considerably smaller than the earth chicken, vulo eggs are cooked in the same array of manners as chicken eggs.
Soon, I smelled the frying of vulo eggs in a large, flat pan-Slave Girl of Gor, Page 73
I stepped aside to let a young girl pass, who carried two baskets of eggs, those of the migratory arctic gant. They nest in the mountaim of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra. The bird cliffs doubtless bear some geological relation to the Hrimgar chains. When such eggs are frozen they are eaten like apples.-Beasts of Gor, Page 196
Fish and Seafood
Cosian Wingfish
A small blue fish of the waters of Cos with poisonnous spines, its liver is considered a delicacy.
The blue, four-spined 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 delicacies of delicacies. -Nomads of Gor, Page 23
Eel
Same as the eels found on earth. A sea creature.
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
Similar to earth oysters.
Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk-Captive of Gor, Page 301
Parsit fish
A thin silver fish from the cold waters of the North.
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
Snails
Similar to Earth snails, but as usual, larger. Size, is not clearly mentioned though.
Once the Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown overboard. Returning to me he held one of the snails, whose shell he crushed between his fingers, and sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing it. He then threw the shell fragments overboard. "They are edible," he said. "And we use them for fish bait."-Marauders of GorPage 29
White Grunt
Another fish of the cold waters of the North.
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
Caviar
Not given a name, just mentioned as a rare or uncommon type of delicacy.
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, Page 276
Fruit and Vegetables
Fruit
Apricot
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices.-Tribesmen of Gor, Page 45
Cherry
The Isles of Tyros, are mentioned as producing cherries.
With the tip of my tongue I touched her lips. Some slave cosmetics are flavored. "Does Master enjoy my taste?" she asked. "The lipstick is flavored," I said. "I know," she said. "It reminds me of the cherries of Tyros," I said.-Beasts of Gor, Page 28
Chokecherry
A rare fruit, mentioned in the making of Pemmican.
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. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a quick energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable, long lasting stamina protein.-Blood Brothers of Gor, Page 46
Date
From the city of Tor, akin to earth dates.
The principal export of the oases are dates and pressed-date bricks. Some of the date palms grow to more than a hundred feet high. It takes ten years before they begin to bear fruit. They will then yield fruit for more than a century. A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds.-Tribesmen of Gor, Page 37
Ka-la-na
A fruit from the yellow kalana tree, it is used to make wine and garnishes for drinks.
I picked some Ka-la-na fruit and opened one of the packages of rations. Talena returned and sat beside me on the grass. I shared the food with her.-Tarnsman of Gor, Page 8
Larma
Two varieties are mentioned. One called hard and the other juicy. Segmented, similar to an earth orange or grapefruit.
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, 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. -Renegades of GorPage 437
Melon
Different varieties found. From what we can surmise, they are mostly found in the Schendi area and markets in Tor.
Buy melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me. -Tribesmen of Gor, Page 45
Nuts
The same as on earth, from trees.
I had returned late to the compartment. Miss Blake Allen, head to the floor, knelt when I entered. 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 47
Olives
From the cities of Tor and Tyros.
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
Peach
No details given except for the color and the way the fruit is used with symbolism.
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, Page 27
Plum
Same as earth.
I was jostled to one side by two men in djellabas. My ankle stung. I had nearly stepped into a basket of plums.-Tribesmen of Gor, Page 45
Pomegranate
Orchards of pomegranate are found growing at the Oasis of Red Rock.
"Pomegranate orchards lie at the east of the oasis," I said. "Gardens lie inward. There is even a pond, between two of the groves of date palms."-Tribesmen of Gor, Page 11
Ram-berry
Small reddish fruit found in the wild.
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-grape
From the Isle of Cos, these plum sized grapes resemble those of earth and are used to make Ta-wine, but may also be eaten as is.
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 He looked at me shrewdly and, to my surprise, drew a tospit out of his pouch, that yellowish-white, bitter fruit, looking something like a peach, but about the size of a plum. -Nomads of Gor, Page 149
Vegetables
Beans Carrot ... most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere and cylinder varieties-Tribesmen of Gor, Page 37 Corn Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist within their domains, she said. The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live. They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash. Savages of Gor, Page 233 Garlic I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.-Outlaw of Gor, Page 29 Katch Similar to earth’s Squash or Pumpkin. ... a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch.-Tribesmen of Gor, Page 37 Kes The principal ingredients of Sullage are 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 ...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 Onion At the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, 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 Peas I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.-Outlaw of Gor, Page 29 Pepper No specific 'Gorean' description offered. 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 Pumpkin and Squash Many of the tribes permit small agricultural communities to exist within their domains, she said. The individuals in these communities are bound to the soil and owned collectively by the tribes within whose lands they are permitted to live. They grow produce for their masters such as wagmeza and wagmu, maize or corn, and such things as pumpkins and squash.-Savages of Gor, Page 233 Radish At the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onion tuber suls, various sorts of melons, 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 Sul 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
Turnip They supplement their diets by picking berries and digging wild turnips, said the first lad. Blood Brothers of Gor, Page 124 Tur-Pah The principal ingredients of Sullage are the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees-Priest Kings of Gor, Page 45 Meat
Bosk The meat was a steak cut from the loin, a huge shaggy long horned bovine, meat is seared, as thick as the forearm of a Warrior on a small iron grill on a kindling of charcoal cylinders so that the thin margin on the outside was black, crisp and flaky sealed within by the touch of the fire-the blood rich flesh hot and fat with juice.-Outlaw of Gor, Page 45 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 Kailiauk
A large herd animal described as if a relative of the bosk.
"The red savages depend for their very lives on the kailiauk" said Kog. "He is the major source of their food and life.His meat and hide, his bones and sinew, sustain them. From him they derive not only food but clothing and shelter, tools and weapons.-Savages of Gor, Page 50 Tabuk 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 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 Tumit I gathered that the best time to hunt tumits, the large flightless, carnivourous birds of the southern plains, was at hand -Nomads of Gor, Page 331 Verr 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
Vulo She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat -Nomads of Gor, Page 1 “It is the spiced brain of the Turian vulo”, Saphrar explained. I shot the spiced brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong -Nomads of Gor, Page 83
Sugar and Spices
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. -Dancer of Gor, Page 81 Honey 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 Mint Sticks On the tray too, was the metal vessel which contained black wine, steaming and bitter from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enamled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers.-Explorers of Gor, Page 10 Mushrooms I was particularly fond of stuffed mushrooms. "What are they stuffed with?" I asked Hurtha. "Sausage." he said. "Tarsk?" I asked. "Of course." he said.-Mercenaries of Gor, Page 83 Pastries Salt 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
Spices "Do you smell it?" asked Ulafi. "Yes," I said. "It is cinnamon and cloves, is it not?" "Yes," said Ulafi, "and other spices, as well."-Explorers of GorPage 98 Sugar There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar -Nomads of Gor, Page 23
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
Rare Treats or Snacks
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 the crumbled pemmican to my mouth and ate of it. There are various ways in which pemmican may be prepared, depending primarily on what one adds to 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. The fruit sugars make this, in its way, a quick energy food, while the meat, of course, supplies valuable, long lasting stamina protein. This, like the dried meat, or jerky, from which it is made, can be eaten either raw or cooked. It is not uncommon for both to be carried in hunting or on war parties. Children will also carry it in their play. The thin slicing of the meat not only abets its preservation, effected by time, the wind and sun, but makes it impractical for flies to lay their eggs in it. Jerky and pemmican, which is usually eaten cooked in the villages, is generally boiled. In these days a trade pot or kettle is normally used. In the old days it was prepared by stone-boiling.-Blood Brothers of Gor, Page 46 Iced Treats The High Initiate had risen to his feet and accepted a goblet from another Initiate, probably containing minced flavored ices, for the day was warm.Free women, here and there, were delicately putting tidbits beneath their veils. Some even lifted their veils somewhat to drink of the flavored ices. Some low-caste free women drank through their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on the rep-cloth.-Assassin of Gor, Page 141 Rence 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
Slave Gruel The bond-maids did not much care for their gruel, unsweetened, mud-like Sa-Tarna meal; with raw fish. -Marauders of Gor, Page 65 Sullage 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 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Gorean Brews
Ale The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons. Over this he then closed his fist. It was the sign of the hammer, the sign of Thor. The tankard then, with two great bronze handles, was passed from hands to hands among the rowers. The men threw back their heads and, the liquid spilling down their bodies, drank ale. It was the victory ale.-Marauders of Gor
Mead In the north generally, mead, a drink made with fermented honey and water, and often spices and such, tends to be favored over paga.-Vagabonds of Gor, Page 16 Rence Beer At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant.-Raiders of Gor, Page 18 Soft Drinks Juices Milk When the meat was ready, Kamchak ate his fill, and drank down, too, a flagon of bosk milk-Nomads of Gor, Page 139 Water In the Tahari desert, we see wells and in the Cities we see aqueducts. Rivers snd streams are used in rural and forest areas.
Another useful source of water is the liana vine. 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.-Explorers of Gor, Page 311
Warm Drinks
Bazi Tea Akin to the teas served in Arabian Countries. The service is also similar. Expensive and mostly seen in the Tahari regions of Gor. Tea is extremely important to the nomads. It is served hot and highly sugared. It gives strength then, in virtue of the sugar, and cools them, by making them sweat, as well as stimulating them. It is drunk three small cups at a time, carefully measured. -Tribesmen of Gor, Page 38 Blackwine I had heard of black wine, but had never had any. It is drunk in Thentis, but I had never heard of it being much drunk in other Gorean cities...Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls...It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee. -Assassins of Gor, Page 106 Chocolate Same as earth, from Cocoa beans obtained from tropical regions of Gor. Strong Alcohols Sa-Paga a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna -Outlaw of Gor, Page 74
Sul- Paga Sul paga is, when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is as clear as water-Slave Girl of Gor, Page 134 Liqueurs No specific descriptions are given except for the fact that most liquers originate from Turia, Cos and Ar.
The liqueurs of Turia are usually regarded as the best, but I think this is largely a matter of taste. Those of Cos
Named for the large number of seeds it holds, this small yellow peach-like fruit, about the size of a plum, is bitter in taste though edible.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
A small shrub which grows in sandy soils. Its roots are a main ingredient of Sullage.
A yellow fibrous vegetable usually served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Mentioned as grown at least in the Barrens area. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Two varieties mentioned here, the 'sphere' and the 'cylinder' varieties.
A root vegetable. Its description would make it quite similar to the earth potato. It is also used in the making of the Gorean peasant's liquor, Sul-Paga.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
A parasite plant of the Tur tree. Its leaves are red and curly.
Similar to earth's beef.
Similar to the earthen duck, gant is a staple of the rence people who inhabit the Delta of the Vosk.
One horned berry eating antelope known for the sweetness of its meat.
Akin to the earthen pig.
Large carnivorous flightless bird of the southern plains, hunted and eaten by the Wagon People.
A herd mammal that ressembles the earthen goats. It is raised also for consumption of its milk, used to make cheeses and butter.
A pigeon like bird from which Goreans obtain small eggs. The bird itself is also eaten much like chicken would be. The brains of the vulo are a delicacy as well.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered, it is mentioned both in far North and far South areas of Gor.
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Mentioned on numerous occasion as simply 'pastries', the usual qualities found in Earth made pastries are pretty much used as descriptives.
White salt from the mines of Klima, or the red salt of Kasra, also from the Tahari desert which is the source of most salt on Gor with the exception of the Torvaldslanders who gather it from the sea. Salt on Gor, comes in various colors among which white, yellow and red are mentioned.
There is mention on many occasions of colored sugar though the only two actually described are the white and yellow 'Turian' sugar.
High energy food mixture of the Red Savages, made mainly of dried kailiauk meat and fruit.
Rence is a plant of the marshes of the Vosk's Delta. The plant is mainly used in the production of paper for trade, but to rencers, rence has unlimited other uses, including food. The pith of the rence plant, (center of the stem) is made into a paste, fried into cakes and used in the making of rence beer.
A mixture of Sa-Tarna grain, suplements, scraps and water fed to slaves, akin to Porridge.
Gorean Vegetable Soup.
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.
A dark amber drink of the Northern parts of Gor, brewed from honey and water.
Brewed from the pith of the rence plant, it is a drink of the rence growers of the Delta of the Vosk.
Gorean fruits of course, tospit, larma and other fruits. Left to the imagination.
Fresh milk of the bosk, the verr, and sometimes even the kaiila.
The availability of drinking water and the way it is obtained varies depending on the area, culture and available ressources and technology
Coffee, acquired from Earth through the Voyages of Accquisitions. Grown and famrmed in the mountain regions of Thentis. Describes as strong and full, akin to a strong Italian earth coffee.
This is warmed chocolate," I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. "Yes, Mistress," said the girl. "It is very good," I said. "Thank you, Mistress," she said. "Is it from Earth?" I asked. "Not directly," she said. "Many things here, of course, ultimately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth." "Do the trees grow near here?" I asked. "No Mistress," she said, "we obtain the beans from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics. -Kajira of Gor, Page 61
The words Pagar-Sa-Tarna ( Sa-Paga) mean "pleasure of the life-daughter". Paga, the symbol of physical love, is an undistilled amber colored alcoholic beverage made from the golden sa-tarna grain. Its taste is often described as "hot" and "firey". Similar to Whiskey.
Made from the golden vine borne vegetable called "sul" (resembles an earth potato), Sul-Paga is a distilled, clear alcoholic beverage. It is typically drunk by peasants and seldom available outside their villages. Akin to Vodka.
Fermented Milk Curds
A potent alcohol made from milk. Can be found in nomadic regions of Gor, mostly within the Tuchuks.
By one fire I could see a squat Tuchuk, hands on his hips, dancing and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds, dancing, according to Kamchak, to please the sky.-Nomads of Gor, Page 28
Wines
Falarian
No specific description is given of this wine, except for the fact that it seems to be of legendary status all over Gor.
Among these petitioners came one fellow bringing with him the promise of a gift of wine, a wine supposedly secret, the rare Falarian, a wine only rumored among collectors to exist, a wine supposedly so rare and precious that its cost might purchase a city. -Mercenaries of Gor, Page 158
Ka-la-na
Same as earth, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na Tree. Bottled and exported in similar ways, bearing the wax sealed mark of the city it was created in.
'A small bottle,' I said, 'of the Slave Gardens of Anesidemus.'. 'I have heard that it is a marvellous ka-la-na.' said the free woman, her eyes alight. 'So too, have I,' I said. Kal-da Palm wine "One of her most delicious exports is palm wine."-Explorers of Gor, Page 115
Ta-wine One girl held our head back, and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweets and dry, from distant Ar. -Tribesmen of Gor, Page 213 Turian wine I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprint on their surface.-Nomads of Gor, Page 84
White wine 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, Page 275 – 276
'It is very expensive,' said the woman.'Are you familiar with it?' I asked.
'Oh,' she said lightly, 'I have had it a few times.'... 'Oh, it is marvellous ka-la-na,' she purred. I gathered that she had never before had such ka-la-na. True, it might run the buyer as much as three copper tarsks, a price for which some women can be purchased. -Mercenaries of Gor, Page 345
A mixture of usually cheap Ka-la-na, mulling spices and citrus juices. A drink favored by the lower Castes of Gor.
I expected its popularity was due more to its capacity to warm a man and stick to his ribs, and to its cheapness than to any gustatory excellence. Moreover, where there was Kal-da there should be bread and meat. I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; 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
Exported from the Schendi regions of Gor, unfortunately no vivid description of it in given, except for the fact that it is of delicious flavor.
A dry wine made from the ta-grapes grown primarily on the Isle of Cos.
A wine of thick substance, almost of liquer qualities. Legendary in the fact that if a person dips their finger in it, they will leave their fingerprint.
Not to be confused with Ka-la-na as it is not said to be Ka-la-na wine. Akin to earth’s fruity white wines.
