       
He is Master, and I am Slave.
He is owner, and I am owned.
He commands, and I obey.
He is to be pleased, and I am to please.
Why is this?
Because he is Master, and I am Slave.
Here is some helpful information on food and drinks. These are some
descriptions of foods and drinks, followed by a description on how to serve them. What
vessel to use, etc..
VEGETABLES and FRUITS
- Sugar
- There are red and yellow sugars. The red is made from fruit juices and the yellow from
the juices of crushed cane stalks
- Larma
- A sweet fruit. It is served sliced. Tastes juicy and bittersweet, like a sour pear.
a succulent fruit, rather like an apple; sometimes sliced and fried, and served
with browned-honey sauce.
offering a larma, real or imagined, by a slave girl to her master is a silent plea for the
girl to be raped.
- Tospit
- is yellow in color. Small, peach-like fruit that is about the size of a plum. They are
bitter, but edible. Often they are dried and candied. May be eaten raw or candied. Like a
sour tangerine. Also commonly sliced and sweetened with honey. Sometimes called the
'seaman's larma' because they are said to prevent nutritional deficiencies at sea.
(Marauders of Gor)
- Sul
- starchy, golden-brown, vine-borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous
vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried.
- Kort
- a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg
- Ram-berries
- small, succulent purple berries.
MEAT (Sa-Tassna (meat ; food in general)
- Bosk
- This animal closely resembles a Yak of Urth, used for many things on Gor. Can be served
roasted and sliced, or as steaks. The milk of the bosk is very drinkable and can be used
to make cheese and churned for butter.
- Vulo
- A small pigeon-like bird. Can be cooked and eaten. The very small eggs are cooked for
the breakfast meal by frying them in a large, flat pan. Takes several birds or many eggs
to make a meal.
- Tarsk
- porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to
the base of the tail. This meat is roasted. On way to prepare it is stuffed with Suls and
Peppers from the City of Tor.
- Sorp
- a shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster; like an oyster, it
manufactures pearls
BREADS & GRAINS
- Sa-Tarna
- A grain, yellow in color. It is a staple of Gor. It is brewed into Paga. It is also
ground and used to bake the Sa-Tarna Bread that is a staple food at every Gorean meal. The
bread is a rounded, flat loaf that is yellow in color. It is marked, before baking, into
six sections.
- Yellow Bread
- Sa-Tarna Bread
- freshly baked from sa-tarna grain. Round, flat cakes of baked sa-tarna meal.
- Sa-Tarna Gruel
- thick paste of boiled sa-tarna. If it tastes bitter and smells like medicine, then odds
are it's been spiked with contraceptive.
- Slave Porridge
- a cold, unsweetened mixture of water and Sa-Tarna meal, on which slaves are fed; in
Torvaldsland, it is called 'bond-maid gruel, and often mixed with pieces of chopped parsit
fish.
- Sul
- starchy, golden-brown, vine-borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous
vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried.
EGGS & CHEESE
- Cheese
- Can be made from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.
- Butter
- Churned from the milk of the Bosk or the Verr.
DRINKS
for a description and tips on serving, click the name of drink.
There are also the meanings of drinks below this section.
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Drinks, their meanings, and how to serve HERE}
- ka-la-na
- a very potent, dry red wine, made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree A sweet wine made
from the ka-la-na fruit. a strong drink. can be served warm or cool. In Treve some prefer
it heated to different degrees.
- kal-da
- made of ka- la-na wine, diluted with citrus juices and mixed with strong spices, and
served hot
- Bazi tea
- an herbal beverage served hot & heavily sugared; traditionally drunk 3 tiny cups at
a time, in rapid succession
- paga
- a grain-based, distilled hard liquor akin to whiskey, served hot, usually served in a
footed bowl
- sul-paga
- an alcohol made from suls and akin to vodka. this is the lumpy paga. Served from a
goblet
- blackwine (similar to Urth coffee)
- traditionally served with red and yellow sugars and fresh bosk milk, and in tiny cups,
here, in Torvoldsland, we serve it in mugs.
- mead
- an alcohol made from fermented honey; extremely popular in Torvaldsland. It is thick and
sweet. Served from a drinking horn.
MEANINGS OF DRINKS
- Sa-Tarna Paga (Usually just called paga) -
- It is brewed from the grain of sa-tarna, it is similar to the earthen whiskey and it
symbolizes physical love (lust).
- Sul Paga -
- It is brewed from the sul. Sul paga is a clear, lumpy drink, very strong, and its
similar to earthen vodka. This is also symbolic of physical love.
- Kal-da -
- A beverage, generally served hot, it is cheap ka-la-na wine, and the juices of fruits,
such as topsit and larma, and spices. Served like beer, it's cheap, and taste good - at
least till you get to the bottom of the bota!
- Tea -
- It is a tea, rather like the pekoe of Earth, it is generally served in the higher class
establishments.
- Black Wine -
- This is the same as the coffee of earth, also made from beans brought back on one of the
earlier voyages of acquisition, it is served in the style of desert, small cups, very hot,
thick, and sweet. Plain blackwine can be had even in the lower establishments.
Descriptions & Tips
- urth coffee (smuggled from earth), expensive drink, also grown in thentis mountains.
- things you need for the serve:
- tray, mug, small saucers of red and yellow sugars, fresh bosk milk.
- how to serve it:
- ask the person if they want sugars or milk first, get all utensils and supplies from
bar, then fill, from the kettle at the firepit, the mug with the hot blackwine, kneel
before the person, add the sugars and fresh bosk milk if they wanted it, then offer it up
to them
- a dry red wine, made from the fruit of ka-la-na. can be served room temperature or cool.
- things you need for the serve:
- a goblet and a bota of ka-la-na
- how to serve it:
- fill the goblet at the Masters feet, then offer it up or you may fill it at the servery,
or coolery if it is preferred chilled.
- a heady, distilled grain alcohol, served hot in a footed bowl (also called sa-paga)
- things you need:
- how to serve:
- fill the footed bowl with paga, located in a paga pot at the fire pit, kneel at the
Masters feet, offer it up.
- alcoholic beverage made from suls (similar to potatoes); akin to vodka, served in a
footed bowl. it is a lumpy drink.
- things you need:
- how to serve:
- fill the goblet at the fire pit, kneel at the Masters feet, offer it up.
- made of ka-la-na wine mixed with citrus juices and spiced, served hot, in a bowl. (hot
stinging spices not like the sweet ones of mulled ka-la-na)
- things you need:
- how to serve:
- ladle the kal-da from a pot at the firepit, into the footed bowl, then take and present
to the Master
- an herbal beverage served hot & heavily sugared; traditionally drunk 3 tiny cups at
a time, in rapid succession. Carefully measured
- things you need:
- a tray, 3 small bazi tea cups, (one yellow and one red and one blue.) the tin box where
the tea is kept, small saucers of red and yellow sugar, a spoon for each sugar, teapot
- how to serve:
- heat the water in the tea pot to a boil, bring the tray with all the items needed and
the tea pot to the Master and kneel. place 3 tea leaves in each cup (or 3 pinches, if the
tea leaves are not whole.) Add the water to each cup. allow the tea to steep. In the first
cup, the yellow one, you add one spoonful of yellow sugar, this signifies the bitter first
fruits of life. In the second cup, the red one, you place a
spoonful of red sugar. this signifies the contentment of adulthood. In the third cup, the blue one, you place a spoonful of red sugars
and a spoonful of yellow sugars. This signifies the enlightenment that comes with
experience and old age. Do not stir the tea after adding the sugars. Let the
leaves sit at the bottom of the cup. Offer the first cup to the Master in a full serve,
wait till He finishes the drink, then offer up the second cup, again in a full serve, then
wait till He finishes, then offer up the third and final cup. As you offer each cup, speak
of what it symbolizes as you do your serve.
- closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer...a deep gold in color, brewed from the
grains of Gor and hops imported from Urth in the early years, served in a goblet.
- things you need:
- goblet and a bottle of gorean ale
- how to serve:
- kneeling at the Masters feet
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