The basic fare of the Gorean diet tended to be simple. Goreans were the earth equivalent of "meat and potato" people. We read in the scrolls of great feasts with wonderful delicacies and of simple tavern and paga den offerings.  A slavegirl needs to be familiar with all of the foods of Gor as she may, at any time, be asked to prepare and serve a meal.  This listing will serve as a reference in training and includes direct quotes from the books.

"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments. Two large wine jugs stood in one corner of the room. There were many closed pantries lining the walls, and a number of pumps and tubs on one side. Some boxes and baskets of hard fruit were stored there. I could see the bread ovens in one wall; the long fire pit over which could be put cooking racks, the mountings for spits and kettle hooks; the fire pit was mostly black now, but here and there I could see a few broken sticks of glowing charcoal; aside from this, the light in the room came from one small tharlarion oil lamp hanging from the ceiling...." 
(Assassins of GOR, page 271-272)

MEATS Sa-Tassna Meat 
Food in General (Outlaw of Gor, pg. 74-75) "The expression is related to Sa-Tassna, the expression for meat, or for food in general, which means Life-Mother."
 

Bosk
This animal closely resembles the Yak of earth. Served roasted and sliced or as steaks. The milk is drinkable, used to make cheese and butter. (Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 43) "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." 
 

Kailiauk
Four-legged wide-headed, lumbering, stocky ruminants (Nomads of Gor, pg. 2) "Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-bunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns."
 

Tabuk
One horned, yellowish antelope, meat is then grilled (Outlaw of Gor, pg. 76) "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. I smiled to myself, felt the sack of coins in my tunic, bent down and pushed the door open."
 

Tarsk
This meat is roasted, stuffed with Suls and Peppers, pork basically, served roasted or fried as bacon (Outlaw of Gor, pg. 76) "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. I smiled to myself, felt the sack of coins in my tunic, bent down and pushed the door open."
 

Verr
Made into steaks or haunches, even whole legs, similar to mutton (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 63) "The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horned. Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one."

POULTRY
 

Gant
Similar to the earthen duck. It is staple of the rence girls. (Raiders of Gor, pg. 4) "I heard a bird some forth or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, brad-billed and broad-winged. Marsh girls, the daughters of rence growers, sometimes hunt them with throwing sticks."
 

Tumits
A large carnivorous bird of the plains. Traditionally hunted with bolos and the sport lies in whether you or the bird gets to eat that night, roasted. (Nomads of Gor, pg. 2) "beyond them I saw one of the tumits, a large, flightless bird whose hooked beak, as long as my forearm, attested only too clearly to its gustatory habits; I lifted my shield and grasped the long spear, but it did not turn in my direction; it passed, unaware "
 

Vulo
A small pigeon-like bird. Very small eggs are cooked by frying them in a large, flat pan. Several birds or many eggs make a meal, roasted and spiced. (Outlaw of Gor, pg. 45) "She had been carrying a wicker basket containing vulos, a domesticated pigeon raised for eggs and meat." 
 

White Grunt
Clustered, tiny black eggs of the white grunt served in a small golden cup with a small golden Eggs spoon. (Fighting Slave of Gor, pg. 276) "Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, tiny pastries, and, in a tiny golden cup, with small golden spoon, the clustered, black tiny eggs of the white grunt."

SEAFOOD
 

Cosian Wingfish
Able to fly above the waters of Thassa for short distances. A small blue fish with 4 poisonous spines on dorsal fin, the liver of the cosian wingfish is a delicacy. (Raiders of Gor, pg. 139) "Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfishTheir livers are regarded as a delicacy."
 

Eel
Considered a Gorean delicacy (Magicians of Gor, pg. 428) "Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies."
 

Marsh Shark
Transported from the marshes, filets or shark steaks (Raiders of Gor, pg. 58) "Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks."
 

Parsit Fish
Slender striped fish, can be fried, baked or broiled (Beasts of Gor, pg. 38) "It is called the parsit current for it is followed by several varieties of migrating parsit, a small, narrow, usually striped fish. Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey."
 

Vosk Carp
Carp, served, fried, or broiled, from the Vosk River (Raiders of Gor, pg. 1) "To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle. "
 

Vosk Oysters
From the delta of the Vosk, served raw or baked. (Captive of Gor, pg. 301) "Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself." 
 

Vosk Sorp
A shellfish similar to the earth oyster, manufactures pearls, used for soups and stews. (Nomads of Gor, pg. 20) "I looked at him steadily. "They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples." 
 

White Belly Grunt
A large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish, eggs are considered a rare delicacy. (Marauders of Gor, pg. 59) "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."

VARIOUS BREADS

Biscuits
Dried pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour. (Savages of Gor, pg. 328) "Grunt, from his own stores, brought forth some dried, pressed biscuits, baked in Kailiauk from Sa-Tarna flour."
 

Black Bread 
Baked soft and full flavored from Gorean grains, heavy and dark in color, served with clotted Bosk cream and/or honey. (Hunters of Gor, pg. 13) "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."
 

Rense Cakes
Handful of wet rence paste, fried on flat stones it makes a kind of cake, often sprinkled with rence seeds. (Raiders of Gor, pg. 44) "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."
 

Sa-Tarna
A grain, yellow in color, a staple of Gor. Brewed into paga and also ground and used to bake the Sa-Tarna bread. (Outlaw of Gor, pg. 19) "Far to my left I saw a splendid field of Sa-Tarna, bending beautifully in the wind, that tall yellow grain that forms a staple in the Gorean diet."
 

Sa-Tarna Bread
Made from sa-tarna grain. A rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color, marked before baking, into six sections (Outlaw of Gor, pg. 76) "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." 
 

Sa-Tarna Gruel
A thick paste of boiled sa-tarna, sometimes mixed with minced parsit fish. Also known as bond- maid gruel or slave porridge. (Marauders of Gor, pg. 67) "Eyes wide, she did so. He thrust the contents of the small bowl into her mouth. Choking, the proud Aelgifu swallowed the thick gruel, that of dampened Sa-Tarna meal and raw fish, the gruel of bond-maids." 

DAIRY 
 

Butter
Churned from milk of the Bosk or the Verr. (Marauders of Gor, pg. 156) "Accordingly there would be little field dunging to be done, there being no fields in the first place and no dung in the second; too, due to the absence of verr or bosk, butter would be in scarce supply."
 

Cheese 
Made from milk of the Bosk or Verr. (Assassin of Gor, pg. 168, Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 63) "The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bask steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese."

VEGETABLES 

Mushroom
Similar to the mushrooms of earth. (Mercenaries of Gor, pg. 82) 

Beans
Different beans for cooking, similar to those of earth. (Marauders of Gor, pg. 81) 

Turnips 
As on earth. (Outlaws of Gor, pg. 29)

Carrots 
As on earth. (Tribesman of Gor, pg. 37) 

Corn
As on earth. (Savages of Gor, pg. 234)

Radishes
As on earth. (Marauders of Gor, pg. 102) 

Onions
As on earth. (Tribesman of Gor, pg. 47) 

Peas
As on earth. (Outlaws of Gor, pg. 29) 

Cabbage
As on earth. (Marauders of Gor, pg. 81) 

Peppers
As on earth. (Nomads of Gor, pg. 47) 

Pumpkin
As on earth. (Savages of Gor, pg. 234) 

Squash
As on earth. (Savages of Gor, pg. 234)

Garlic
As on earth. (Outlaws of Gor, pg. 29)

Katch 
Foliated leaf vegetable similar to earthen lettuce. (Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 37) "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."
 

Kes 
Shrub whose salty, blue roots are a main ingredient in sullage. (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 45) "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."
 

Kort 
Large, brownish, thick-skinned sphere shaped vegetable and heavily seeded, some six inches in width. Served Sliced with melted cheese/nutmeg. (Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 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."
 

Olives
Commonly from the city of Tor, referred to as Torian Olives. (Assassins of Gor, pg. 168) "The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bask steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese."
 

Red Olives
These come from the groves of Tyros. (Raiders of Gor, pg. 114) "I was pleased to see them join with us in our festivities, helping us to make our feast. 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."
 

Rence, pith
A water plant. Grain is eaten, boiled or ground into a paste and sweetened. This paste can be fried into a type of pancake. (Raiders of Gor, pg. 7) "...further, its pith is edible, and for the rence growers is, with fish, a staple in their diet; the pith is edible both raw and cooked; some men, lost in the delta, not knowing the pith edible, have died of starvation the the midst of what was, had they known it, an almost endless abundance of food."
 

Sul
Golden brown. Starchy. Tuberous root of the Sul plant (potatoes), served by roasting and filling with melted Bosk cheese. (Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 134) "The Tarn Keeper, who was called by those in the tavern Mip, bought the food, bask steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese."
 

Sullage 
A soup made prinicipally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, etc. (Priest Kings of Gor, pg. 44) "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 starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah, a tree parasite, cultivated in host orchards of Tur trees; and the salty, blue secondary roots of the Kes Shrub, a small, deeply rooted plant which grows best in sandy soil."
 

Tur-Pah 
Edible tree parasite with curly, red leaves from tur tree. (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 45) "The principal ingredients of Sullage are the golden Sul, the starchy, golden-brown vine-borne fruit of the golden-leaved Sul plant; the curled, red, ovate leaves of the Tur-Pah..."

FRUITS
 

Apricot
Identical to the apricot of Earth; sold in marketplaces of the Tahari (Tribesman of Gor, pg. 45) "I brushed away two sellers of apricots and spices. "Come with me to the cafe of Red Cages," said a boy, pulling at my sleeve."

Melon
Sold in Tahari market, yellowish red-striped sphere.(Tribesman of Gor, page 45) "Buy melons!" called a fellow next to her, lifting one of the yellowish, red-striped spheres toward me." 

Dates
These come from the City of Tor (Nomads of Gor, pg. 42) "About Kutaituchik there were piled various goods, mostly vessels of precious metal and strings and piles of jewels; there was silk there from Tyros; silver frm Thentis and Tharna; tapestries from the mills of Ar; wines from Cos; dates from the city of Tor."
 

Larma
Fruit with a hard shell, brittle and easily broken, which encloses a fleshy endocarp, juicy and succulent, delicious. Larma or other fruit may be offered by a kneeling slave to her Master in plea for his sexual use of her. (Renegades of Gor, pg. 437) "The larma is lucious. 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. Sometimes, when a woman is referred to as a "larma," it is suggested that her hard or frigid exterior conceals a rather different sort of interior, one likely to be quite delicious. Once the shell has been broken through or removed, irrevocably, there is, you see, exposed, soft, vulnerable, juicy and helpless, the interior, in the fruit, the fleshy endocarp, in the woman, the slave."
 
 

Larma, pit fruit
Single-seeded applelike fruit; a variation of the succulent juicy larma with a single seed; applelike commonly called pit fruit. (Players of Gor, pg. 267) "I took a slice of hard larma from my tray. This is a firm, single-seeded, applelike fruit. It is quite unlike the segmented, juicy larma. It is sometimes called, and perhaps more aply, the pit fruit, because of its large single stone."
 

Peaches 
As on earth. (Rogue of Gor, pg. 194) "The girl lifted her head then and timidly lifted the ripe, rounded fruit which she held in her hands. Gorean peaches and plums, to me."
 

Plums
As on earth. (Rogue of Gor, pg. 194) "The girl lifted her head then and timidly lifted the ripe, rounded fruit which she held in her hands. Gorean peaches and plums, to me."

Raisins 
As on earth. (Tribesman of Gor, pg. 47) "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."
 

Ram-berries 
Small reddish fruit not unlike tiny plums, with many small edible seeds (Captive of Gor, pg. 207) "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 tiny plums, save for the many small seeds."
 

Ta-Grapes Edible purple fruit, the size of a small plum, from which Ta-wine is made, usually from Cos. (Priest-Kings of Gor, pg. 45) "The meal was completed by a handful of grapes and a draught of water from the wall tap. The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar."
 

Tospits 
Yellow in color, small, citrus-like fruit about the size of a plum. They are bitter, but edible. Often, they are dried/candied. (Marauders of Gor, pg. 102) "I do not care too much for tospits, as they are quite bitter. Some men like them. They are commonly used, sliced and sweetened with honey, and in syrups, and to flavor, with their juices, a variety of dishes." 

SPICES
 

Cinnamon and cloves
Spices as on earth. (Explorers of Gor, pg. 98) "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." The sun was bright, and there was a good wind astern. The sails were full and the waters of Thassa streamed against the strakes."

Nutmeg
As on earth. (Tribesman of Gor, pg. 47) "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."
 

Salt, 3 varieties
*red (famed-Kasra, Tribesman of Gor, pg. 20) "The red salt of Kasra, so called from its port of embarcation, was famed on Gor. It was brought from secret pits and mines, actually, deep in the interior, bound in heavy cylinders on the backs of pack kaiila."

*yellow (southern, Marauders of Gor, pg. 187) "The red and yellow salts of the south, some of which I saw on the tables, are not domestic to Torvaldsland."

*white (Tahari, Tribesman of Gor, pg. 238) "Most salt at Klima is white, but certain of the mines 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."

SWEETS & SWEETENERS
 

Chocolate
Earth chocolate, made from beans, found in higher-class establishments. Served hot in a large cup. (Kajira of Gor, pg. 42) "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." 
 

Custard 
As on earth. (Beasts of Gor, pg. 20) "He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On It were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards."
 

Honey
This is traditional honey from the inland village of Nyuki (Explorers of Gor, pg. 219) "His father had, many years ago, fled from an inland village, that of Nyuki, noted for its honey, on the northern shore of lake Ushindi."
 

Mint stick
A confection served in a bowl on a tray set for blackwine service. (Explorers of Gor, pg. 10) "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."
 

Pastries
Served with creams or butters, honey. (Beasts of Gor, pg. 20) "He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On It were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming, with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards."

Sugar Red is from fruits and Yellow from juices of crushed cane stalks. (Rogue of Gor, pg. 132) "Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling, head down, served us our desert, slices of tospit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars."

CANDIES & NUTS

Candy 
Soft, rounded, succulent candies. (Dancer of Gor, pg. 81) "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 then the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it."
 

Hard candies
As on earth. (Hunters of Gor, pg. 13) "And a stone of hard candies, from the kitchens of Ar," smiled Samos."
 

Nuts
As on earth. (Tribesman of Gor, pg. 47) "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."