Sorp: A shellfish, very similar to an oyster. Like an oyster, it
manufactures pearls. The finest sorps come from the Vosk river.
Wingfish: These are tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on
their dorsal fin; found in the waters of Cos; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
Kes: a shrub with salty, blue firmed skinned roots much like a carrot. Kess
is a main ingredient in sullage.
Rence: A grain from a water plant, it may be boiled or ground into a paste
and sweetened, often fried into a type of pancake.
Sul: A starchy, goldenbrown, vineborne fruit; a tuberous vegetable
similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried, or small ones can be roasted with
meat and served whole with fresh butter. Sul is also the principal ingredient in sullage.
Sullage: A soup made principally from suls, turpah, and kes, along with
whatever else may be handy.
Tur-Pah: An edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the
tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage.
Kort: A rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and
nutmeg
Larma: A succulent fruit, similar to an apple. It is sometimes sliced and
fried, and often served with brownedhoney sauce. Offering a larma, real or imagined, by
a slave girl to her Master is a silent plea for the girl to be raped.
Ram-berries: Delicous small, succulent purple berries.
Tospit: A small, bitter, juicy citrus fruit. The common tospit almost
invariably contains an odd number of seeds; the long stemmed tospit, usually, an even
number of seeds.
REDDBerries: At Land Ho, the Captain has worked and cultivated His own
variation of the Ramberry. Its sweeter and juicier...and grown and served only at the
Orchards of Land Ho!
Ale: Gorean Ale is closer to a Honey Lager than to an ale or beer...a deep
gold in color.
Bazi tea: Very aromatic tea brewed fresh from Bazi leaves. Served hot and
heavily sugared in three tiny cups (similar to Urth's espresso cups) Served and drunk in
rapid succession. Some Freeperson's may expect the kajira to take each cup as he or she
empties it.
black wine: coffee from beans orginally acquired from Urth, and now grown in
the mountains of Thentis.**second slave refers the serving of black wine, and means it is
desired without creams or sugars.
Coke: not Gorean by any means, but was introduced to the Captain years ago,
and is His favorite! He has it imported from Urth and keeps cases of the green tinted
bottles stacked in our galley!
kal-da: A hot almost scalding drink made of distilled Ka-la-na wine mixed
with juices of fruits such as tospit and larma and hot spices.
ka-la-na wine: A sweet, rich, fully bodied, deliciously fragrant wine,
ranging in color from white to gold to red -gold. It is distilled from the fruit of the
Ka-la-na tree. The best and sweetest coming from the Plains of Ka-la-na. This drink often
symbolizes romantic love. It is served chilled or at room temperature.
paga(Pagar-Sa-Tarna): a grain-based, distilled hard liquor akin to whiskey;
sometimes served warm.
sul paga: clear, almost tasteless, but very potent alcoholic beverage made
from suls.
Spring water: served from the Spring at Land Ho!
second wine: breeding wine, reverses the effects of slave wine.
slave wine: a black, bitter beverage that acts as a contraceptive; its
effect is instantaneous and lasts for well over a month; can be counter-acted with a
another, sweet-tasting beverage.
