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Foods of Gor
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, p 48
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, 19:380
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, p 43
A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. At the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow...
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Yellow Gorean bread (Sa-Tarna bread)
Yellow Gorean bread made from Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked in round loaves and is a staple of most Gorean meals.
I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot
---Outlaw of Gor, p 76
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, p 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, p 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, p 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, p 73
Gant eggs
Red Hunters of the polar cap, collect the eggs of the artic gant, which nests on cliffs. They are eaten frozen, like an apple would be.
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, p 196
Fish and seafood
Cosian Wingfish
A small blue fish of the waters of Cos whit poisonnous spines, its liver is considered a delicacy.
Now this, Saphrar the merchant was telling me, is the braised liver of the blue, four-spines 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 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-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, p 23
Eel
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, p 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, p 301
Parsit fish
A thin silver fish from the cold waters of the North. Torvaldslanders salt it and export it in barrels. It is also added to the gruel of bond-maids (slaves 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, p 28
Snails
Would apear to be similar to Earth snails although perhaps, as most things Gorean, larger. Size, however, is not clearly mentioned.
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 Gor
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, p 59
Caviar on Gor ?
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, pp 275-276
Fruit and Vegetables
The reader will find numerous references to fruit and vegetables, most described as akin in one way or another, to Earth cousins. In most cases, the nuances have to do with size, and color and the earth name will be used. There are however, a number of fruit and vegetables with Gorean names that offer no ressemblance to the names used on Earth. In these cases, the author usually gives a fair amount of detail on size, color, and uses comparisons/crosses with Earth products for the reader's understanding. Note that a few times, an item will be mentioned in passing without description, presumably, although grown on Gor, and possibly subject to adaptation via mutation, these would be fairly identical to Earth products, the seeds of trees having been brought to Gor through the early voyages of aquisitions.
Fruit
There is a ritual tied into the offering of fruit, which is discussed in the 'Rituals of bondage' section.
I iddly observed the dancer. Her eyes were on me. It seemed, in her hands, she held ripe fruits for me, lush larma, fresh picked. Her wrists were close together, as though confined by the links of slave bracelets. She touched the imaginary larma to her body, caressing her swaying beauty with it, and then, eyes piteous, held her hands forth, as though begging me to accept the lush fruit. Men at the table clapped their hands on the wood, and looked at me. Others smote their left shoulder. I smiled.
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------.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 larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh.
---Tribesmen of Gor, pp 27, 28
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. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 28:
Chokecherry
Mentioned in Blood Brothers of Gor as one of the fruit used in the making of pemmican. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 4:46
Date
From the city of Tor, they are said to be the same as earth dates. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 2:37
Ka-la-na
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, 8:
Larma
Norman offers descriptions that indicate there are two varieties of this fruit, one simply called here, the 'hard' larma or 'pit fruit', the other refered to as the 'juicy' larma.
He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed partly crunching as he went through the shell, partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp.
---Nomads of Gor, 19:
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, p 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 Gor, p 437
Melon
There is mention of 'different varieties' although the only description given is the following. Melons are mentioned among the fruit which grow in the Schendi area, though there is no indication that they are not part of other area gardens, we also see them sold in a market in Tor.
Buy melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 45
Nuts
Used among other things, in vulo stew. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I had returned late to the compartment. Mis 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, p 47
Olives
From the cities of Tor and Tyros, the latter producing the red variety of olive.
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, p 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, p 114
Peach
No specific 'Gorean' description offered but for the fact that the 'Gorean' peach is yellow.
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, pp 27-28
Plum
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 2:45
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, 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, p 305
Ta-grape
From the Isle of Cos, these plumb sized grapes ressemble 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, p 45
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, p 291
Tospit
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.
Tospit is also used as a target in some of the throwing games of the Wagon People.
On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but edible.
---Nomads of Gor, 8:
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, 12:149
The common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds. On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds. Both fruits are indistinguishable outwardly. I could see that, perhaps by accident, the tospit which Kamchak had thrown me had had the stem twisted off. It must be then, I surmised, the rare, long-stemmed tospit.
---Nomads of Gor, 12:149
Greens (vegetables, plants, roots)
So many different vegetables are mentioned here and there throughout the books that it is almost safe to assume that in addition to the vegetables that are unique to Gor, just about any vegetable in one form or another is found on the counter earth.
Beans
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Carrot
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
... 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, p 37
Corn
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, p 233
Garlic
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.
---Outlaw of Gor, p 29
Katch
... a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Kes
A small shrub which grows in sandy soils. Its roots are a main ingredient of Sullage.
The principal ingredients of Sullage are..............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, p 45
Kort
A yellow fibrous vegetable usually served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. The description is kort makes it sound like it would belong to a squash family.
...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, p 37
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, p 48
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, 19:380
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, p 43
A great amount of farming, or perhaps one should speak of gardening, is done at the oasis, but little of this is exported. At the oasis, will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow...
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Yellow Gorean bread (Sa-Tarna bread)
Yellow Gorean bread made from Sa-Tarna grain. It is baked in round loaves and is a staple of most Gorean meals.
I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot
---Outlaw of Gor, p 76
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, p 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, p 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, p 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, p 73
Gant eggs
Red Hunters of the polar cap, collect the eggs of the artic gant, which nests on cliffs. They are eaten frozen, like an apple would be.
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, p 196
Fish and seafood
Cosian Wingfish
A small blue fish of the waters of Cos whit poisonnous spines, its liver is considered a delicacy.
Now this, Saphrar the merchant was telling me, is the braised liver of the blue, four-spines 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 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-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, p 23
Eel
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, p 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, p 301
Parsit fish
A thin silver fish from the cold waters of the North. Torvaldslanders salt it and export it in barrels. It is also added to the gruel of bond-maids (slaves 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, p 28
Snails
Would apear to be similar to Earth snails although perhaps, as most things Gorean, larger. Size, however, is not clearly mentioned.
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 Gor
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, p 59
Caviar on Gor ?
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, pp 275-276
Fruit and Vegetables
The reader will find numerous references to fruit and vegetables, most described as akin in one way or another, to Earth cousins. In most cases, the nuances have to do with size, and color and the earth name will be used. There are however, a number of fruit and vegetables with Gorean names that offer no ressemblance to the names used on Earth. In these cases, the author usually gives a fair amount of detail on size, color, and uses comparisons/crosses with Earth products for the reader's understanding. Note that a few times, an item will be mentioned in passing without description, presumably, although grown on Gor, and possibly subject to adaptation via mutation, these would be fairly identical to Earth products, the seeds of trees having been brought to Gor through the early voyages of aquisitions.
Fruit
There is a ritual tied into the offering of fruit, which is discussed in the 'Rituals of bondage' section.
I iddly observed the dancer. Her eyes were on me. It seemed, in her hands, she held ripe fruits for me, lush larma, fresh picked. Her wrists were close together, as though confined by the links of slave bracelets. She touched the imaginary larma to her body, caressing her swaying beauty with it, and then, eyes piteous, held her hands forth, as though begging me to accept the lush fruit. Men at the table clapped their hands on the wood, and looked at me. Others smote their left shoulder. I smiled.
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------.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 larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh.
---Tribesmen of Gor, pp 27, 28
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. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 28:
Chokecherry
Mentioned in Blood Brothers of Gor as one of the fruit used in the making of pemmican. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 4:46
Date
From the city of Tor, they are said to be the same as earth dates. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 2:37
Ka-la-na
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, 8:
Larma
Norman offers descriptions that indicate there are two varieties of this fruit, one simply called here, the 'hard' larma or 'pit fruit', the other refered to as the 'juicy' larma.
He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed partly crunching as he went through the shell, partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp.
---Nomads of Gor, 19:
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, p 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 Gor, p 437
Melon
There is mention of 'different varieties' although the only description given is the following. Melons are mentioned among the fruit which grow in the Schendi area, though there is no indication that they are not part of other area gardens, we also see them sold in a market in Tor.
Buy melons! called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me.
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 45
Nuts
Used among other things, in vulo stew. No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I had returned late to the compartment. Mis 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, p 47
Olives
From the cities of Tor and Tyros, the latter producing the red variety of olive.
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, p 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, p 114
Peach
No specific 'Gorean' description offered but for the fact that the 'Gorean' peach is yellow.
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, pp 27-28
Plum
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, 2:45
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, 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, p 305
Ta-grape
From the Isle of Cos, these plumb sized grapes ressemble 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, p 45
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, p 291
Tospit
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.
Tospit is also used as a target in some of the throwing games of the Wagon People.
On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches of which are indigenous to the drier valleys of the western Cartius. They are bitter but edible.
---Nomads of Gor, 8:
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, 12:149
The common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds. On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds. Both fruits are indistinguishable outwardly. I could see that, perhaps by accident, the tospit which Kamchak had thrown me had had the stem twisted off. It must be then, I surmised, the rare, long-stemmed tospit.
---Nomads of Gor, 12:149
Greens (vegetables, plants, roots)
So many different vegetables are mentioned here and there throughout the books that it is almost safe to assume that in addition to the vegetables that are unique to Gor, just about any vegetable in one form or another is found on the counter earth.
Beans
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
Carrot
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
... 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, p 37
Corn
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
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, p 233
Garlic
No specific 'Gorean' description offered.
I have peas and turnips, garlic and onions in my hut.
---Outlaw of Gor, p 29
Katch
... a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 37
Kes
A small shrub which grows in sandy soils. Its roots are a main ingredient of Sullage.
The principal ingredients of Sullage are..............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, p 45
Kort
A yellow fibrous vegetable usually served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg. The description is kort makes it sound like it would belong to a squash family.
...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, p 37