Ale
(tankard)
"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,
page 82)
Bazi
Tea(three tiny cups or three heavy glasses for ceremonial serve, otherwise
cup)_
"Tea is extremely important
to the nomads. It is served hot and heavily sugared. It gives them 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)
"I feared, when first
I saw you," said the girl, measuring the tea from a tiny tin box, "that
you had come to carry me off.
(Tribesmen of Gor,
page 139)
"Hot Bazi Tea I wanted.
This is an important trade item in the north. I know knew why. The southern
sugars are also popular. I had originally supposed this was because of
their sweetness, there being few sweet items, save some berries, in the
north. I know began to suspect that the calories of the sugars also played
their role in their popularity."
(Beasts of Gor,
page 206)
Make me tea,' I said."
"...'Is it ready?' I asked. I looked at the tiny copper kettle on the small
stand. A tiny kaiila-dung fire burned under it. A small, heavy, curved
glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the
tea. Bazi tea is drunk in tiny glasses, usually three at a time,
carefully measured. She did not make herself tea, of course."...... "She
lifted the kettle from the fire and, carefully, poured me a tiny glass
of tea. I took the glass." "
(Tribesman of Gor,
page 139)
Blackwine(small
cups or bowls)
"What is that I smell?"
I asked.
"Black wine," said
she, "from the Mountains of Thentis."
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 any of the other cities.
Bring two bowls,"
I said."
(Assassin of Gor,
page 106)
"Actually," I said to
Elizabeth, "this is very rare. Thentis does not trade the beans for black
wine. I have heard of a cup of black wine in Ar, some years ago,
selling for a silver eighty-piece. Even in Thentis black wine is used commonly
only in High Caste homes."
(Assassin of Gor,
page 107)
"On the tray, too was
the metal vessel which had contained the black wine, steaming and bitter,
from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled
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)
"From one side a slave
girl, barefoot, bangled, in sashed, diaphanous, trousered chalwar, gathered
at the ankles, in tight, red silk vest, with bare midriff, fled to Him,
with the tall, graceful, silvered pot containing the black wine. She was
veiled. She knelt, replenishing the drink. Beneath the veil I saw the metal
of her collar. I had not thought to have such fortune. She did not look
at me. She returned to her place with the pot of black wine. Ibn Saran
lifted another finger. From the side there hastened to him another girl,
a fair skinned, red haired girl. She, too, wore veil, vest, chalwar, bangles,
collar. She carried a tray, on which were various spoons and sugars. She
knelt, placing her tray on the table. With a tiny spoon, its tip no more
than a tenth of hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar,
and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white
sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure.
She then held the cup to the side of her cheek, testing its temperature;
Ibn Saran glanced at her; she, looking at him, timidly kissed the side
of the cup and placed it before him. Then, her head down, she withdrew."
(Tribesman of Gor,
page 88 and 89)
IRC hint: The
expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does
not wish creams or sugars with one's blackwine, even if only one girl is
serving.
"I lifted the tiny
silver cup to my lips and took a drop of the black wine. It's strength
and bitterness are such that it is normally drunk in such a manner, usually
only a drop or a few drops at a time. Commonly, too, it is mollified with
creams and sugars. I drank it without creams and sugars, perhaps, for I
had been accustomed, on Earth, to drinking coffee in such a manner, and
the black wine of Gor is clearly coffee, or closely akin to coffee. Considering
its bitterness, however, if I had not been drinking such a tiny amount,
and so slowly, scarcely wetting my lips, I, too, would surely have had
recourse to the tasty, gentling additives with which it is almost invariably
served."
(Guardsman of Gor",
page 247)
Chocolate
-warmed(cup)
"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."
(Kajira of Gor,
page 61)
Falarian
Wine(goblet)
"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. She , though only a slave, would choose to sip it."
(Mercenaries of
Gor pg 158)
Fermented
milk curds(wooden bowl most likely, unspecified)
"By one fire I could
see a squat Tuchuk, hands on 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)
Ka-la-na(goblet
or cup if mulled & heated)
"Yes! It would be the
one that would be red with Ka-la-na..."
(Tarnsman of Gor,
page 79)
"I went to his locker
near the mat and got out his Ka-la-na flask, taking a long draught myself
and then shoving it into his hands. He drained the flask in one
drink and wiped his hand across his beard, stained with the red juice of
the fermented drink."
(Tarnsman of Gor,
page 168)
IRC hint:
*Ka-la-na a potent
red wine, made from the fruit of ka-la-na; the white wine is usually served
chilled, the red at room temperature goblet and a bottle of ka-la-na
(sometimes served in botas - skins) fill the goblet at the Masters
feet, then offer it up .
*Mulled ka-la-na Heated
ka-la-na, with mulling spices. Usually garnished with a piece of ka-la-na
fruit or tospit, served in a goblet. goblet kept warm in a pot at the firepit,
ladle it into the pottery or pewter goblet, add a garnish and take to the
one you are serving .
"Little pock-face,"
called Relius. "I would be served."
Virginia Kent, with
her pitcher of Ka-la-na, ran lightfootedly to Relius, guard in the House
of Cernus.
"Let Lana serve Relius
wine." said another girl, a Red Silk Girl, first to the guard, leaning
towards him, lips parted. Relius put out his cup but before the
girl could pour the wine she seemed suddenly to fly off the back of the
dais, the seat of her tunic firmly gripped in the small hand of Virginia
Kent, Lana landed with a considerable bump on the stones of the hall, the
wine flying backward.
"Relius guards Virginia,"
the young slave girl from Earth informed collared, Red Silk Lana.
(Assassins of GOR,
page 238)
Kal-da(pottery
or wooden bowl or "pot")
"Kal-da is a hot drink,
almost scalding, made of diluted Ka-la-na wine, mixed with citrus juices
and stinging spices."
(Outlaw of Gor,
page 76)
Kalda is a hot drink,
almost scalding, made of diluted kalana wine, mixed with citrus juices
and stinging spices. I did not care much for the mouth warming concoction,
but it was popular with some of the lower castes, particularly those who
performed strenuous manual labor. I expected its popularity was due more
to its capacity to warm a man and stick to his ribs , and to its cheapness(
a poor grade of Ka-la-na wine being used in its brewing) 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)
I had hardly settled
myself behind the table when the proprietor had placed a
large, fat
pot of steaming Kal-da before me. It almost burned my hands to lift
the pot. I took a long, burning swig of the brew and though, on another
occasion, I might have thought it foul, tonight it sang through my body
like the bubbling fire it was, a sizzling, brutal irritant that tasted
so bad and yet charmed me so much I had to laugh.
(Outlaw of Gor,
pg. 79)
Larma,
juice(glass)
I purchased some larma
juice for a tarsk bit. "Is it cool," I asked. "Yes," she said.
(Mercenaries of
Gor, pg 257)
Mead(horn
or tankard)
"Here Jarl," said Thyri,
again handing me the horn. It was filled with the mead of Torvaldsland,
brewed from fremented honey, think and sweet.
(Marauders of Gor,
page 90)
"Bera went to the next
man , to fill his cup with the mead, from the heavy hot tankard,
gripped with cloth, which she carried. "
(Marauders, page
278)
Merlot,
wine(goblet)
Merlot wine is the
only burgundy wine found on Gor. It is made from merlot grapes, served
at room temperature in a goblet. It is stored in bottles.
Milk,
Various:(glass or bowl, as preferred)
Bosk
"Not only does the
flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with
food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell;
its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is
used for their shields; its sinews forms their thread; its bones and horns
are split and tooled into implements of a hundred sorts, from awls, punches
and spoons to drinking flagons and weapon tips; its hoofs are used for
glues; its oils are used to grease their bodies against the cold."
(Nomads of Gor,
page 5)
Kaiila
"Kaiila milk, which
is used, like verr milk, by the people of the Tahari, is reddish, and has
a strong salty taste, it contains much ferrous sulfate.."
(Tribesmen of Gor,
page 71)
Verr
"The smell of fruit
and vegetables, and verr milk, was strong."
(Savages of Gor,
page 60)
Paga(cup
or "pot")
"Does Master desire
ought?" asked a black girl, kneeling before me, a paga slave of the establishment.
"Paga" I said to her. She rose to her feet and went to the vat behind the
counter. I sat down, cross legged, behind a low table, from which vantage
point I could see the girl lying on the floor, she covered in the beggar's
aba. "
(Explorers of Gor,
page 132)
"I ordered another cup
of paga. I played a game of kaissa with another guest of the tavern. The
Paga tasted a bit strange, but it was a local paga and there is variation
in such pagas, generally a function of the brewers choice of herbs and
grains. "
(Explorers of Gor,
page 132)
"I then gave my attention
to the paga, and to my thoughts. In time I sent her back for another
cup, in the tavern of Pembe, was only a tarsk bit. I paid it to the
paga attendant, who collected it at the table. The girls in Pembe`s tavern,
as in many taverns, are not permitted to touch coins. Evelyn, of course,
who had come with the higher price of the first cup, was mine until I chose
to leave the tavern or in some way release her. "
(Explorers of Gor,
page 173)
"I decided , if worse
came to worst, that I could always go to a simple paga tavern where, if
those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might , curled
in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price
of a pot of paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow
grains of Gors staple crop, Sa-Tarna, or Life Daughter. The expression
is related to Sa-Thassna, the expression for meat, or food in general,
which means Life-Mother. Paga is a corruption of Pagar-Sa-Tarna, which
means Pleasure of the Life Daughter. "
(Outlaw of Gor,
pages 74,75)
"This is not unusual
at an inn. The proportions, then, would be one part paga to five parts
water. Commonly, at a paga tavern, the paga would be cut less, or not cut
at all. When wine is drunk with Gorean meals, at home, incidentally, it
is almost always diluted, mixed with water in a krater. At a party of convivial
supper the host, or elected feast master, usually determines the proportions
of water to wine. Unmixed wine, of course, may be drunk, for example, at
the parties of young men, at which might appear dancers, flute slaves and
such. Many Gorean wines, it might be mentioned, if only by way of explanation,
are very strong, often having an alcohol content by volume of forty to
fifty percent. "
(Renegades of Gor,
page 70)
"There were perhaps,
a hundred men, within the enclosure, and some fifteen of twenty girls.
The girls filled their vessels which, like the hydria, or water vessel,
are high handled, for dipping in a large kettle hung simmering over a fire
near the entrance to the enclosure. Warm paga makes one drunk quicker,
it is thought. I usually do not like my paga heated, except sometimes on
cold nights. this night was not cold , but warm. It was now late spring.
Some Cosians tend to fond of hot paga so, too, are some of the folks in
the more northern islands, interestingly, such as Hunjer and Skjern, west
of Torvaldsland. this probably represents an influence from Cos, transmitted
through merchants and seamen. 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)
Palm
wine(goblet)
"Schendi's most significant
exports are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products
also being of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm
wine."
(Explorers of Gor,
page 115)
"He is a trained fighter,
Kisu," I said. "Do not fight him."
"What am I to do?"
asked Kisu.
"My recommendation,"
said Ayari, "would be to stab him when he is not looking, or perhaps to
poison his palm wine."
(Explorers
of Gor, page 429)
Rence
beer(tankard, "gourd flagon")
"At such times there
is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from crushed seeds
and the whitish pith of the plant"
(Raiders of Gor,
page 18)
"I had carried 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
wine(glass or goblet)
"Slave wine is bitter,
intentionally so ... its effect lasts more than a Gorean month. I did not
wish the females to conceive. A female slaves is taken off slave wine only
when it is her Master's intention to breed her."
(Marauders of Gor,pages
23-24)
Sul
Paga(3-legged bowl or cup)
"Sul paga is, when
distilled, though the Sul itself is yellow, as clear as water. The Sul
is a tuberous root of the Sul plant; it is a Gorean staple. He could have
been commenting only on the potentcy of the drink, for Sul paga is almost
tasteless. One does not guzzle Sul paga."
(Slave Girl of Gor,
page 134)
Ta
wine(goblet)
"It was
Ta wine, from the Ta grapes of the terraces of Cos...In the last year heavy
import duties had been levied by the high council of Vonda against the
wines of certain other cities, in particular against the Ka-la-nas of Ar."
(Fighting
Slave of Gor, page 306)
Turian
liquour(small glasses)
"She picked up the
small tray from the stand near the table. On it was the small vessel containing
a thick, sweet liqueur from distant Turia, the Ar of the south, and the
two
tiny glasses from which we had sipped it."
(Explorers of Gor,
page 10)
"The liqueurs of Turia
are usually regarded as the best..."
(Kajira of Gor,
page 406)
"Publius, to my surprise,
selected a liqueur of Turia. 'Those of Turia are the best,' he said to
Drusus Rencius, smiling, almost apologetically."
(Kajira of Gor,
page 407)
Turian
wine(goblet)
"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,
pages 83-84)
Wine(goblet)
"In a Gorean supper
in a house of wealth, in the course of the supper, with varied courses,
eight to ten wines might be served, each suitably and congruously matched
with respect to texture and bouquet not only to one another but to the
accompanying portions of food."
(Fighting Slave
of Gor, page 277)
"The first wine, a light
white wine, was being deferentially served..."
(Fighting Slave
of Gor, page 276) |