Post by jynxDaemon on Oct 19, 2009 14:59:16 GMT -5
Ale -
Made from grains and hops that were brought to Gor during the acquisition voyages,
Gorean Ale is closer to a honey lager than to an Earth ale or beer. Its color is deep and golden. Traditionally kept in a cask or a keg and served in a 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, p 82
Mead -
A dark amber drink of the Northern parts of Gor, brewed from honey and water.
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, p 16
Rence beer-
Brewed from the pith of the rence plant, it is a drink of the rence growers of the Delta of the Vosk.
At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant.
---Raiders of Gor, p 18
Juice -
Gorean fruits of course, tospit, larma and other fruits.
Milk-
Fresh milk of the bosk, the verr, and sometimes even the kaiila.
When the meat was ready, Kamchak ate his fill, and drank down, too, a flagon of bosk milk
---Nomads of Gor"TYPE=PICT;ALT=", p 139
.kaiila milk, like verr milk, is used by the peoples of the Tahari; it is reddish and has a strong salty taste, features which one supposes are connected with some sort of climatological adaptation; it has a high iron content; men do not drink it unless water is plentiful;
---Tribesmen of Gor"TYPE=PICT;ALT=", 4:
Water-
The availability of drinking water and the way it is obtained varies depending on the area, culture and available ressources and technology. We see wells in the Tahari desert, aqueducs in Cities, buckets filled at the river shore in forest camps, and as many other ways to obtain water as earth has.
Another useful source of water is the liana vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water.
---Explorers of Gor p 311
Bazi tea -
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.
---Tribesmen of Gor"TYPE=PICT;ALT=", p 139
Blackwine -
Made from beans brought back to Gor during the early acquisition voyages and grown in the mountain of Thentis, Blackwine is Gor's equivalent of earth's coffee in its most potent form, perhaps only Espresso comes close to the strong taste described.
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 other Gorean cities...Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls...It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee.
---Assassins of Gor, p 106
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.
---Tribesmen of Gor pp 88 and 89
.The expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving.
---Guardsman of Gor pp 244-245
Chocolate -
Creamy and warm, from cocoa beans grown in the tropic
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.
---Kajira of Gor p 61
Sa-Paga -
The words Pagar-Sa-Tarna ( Sa-Paga) mean "pleasure of the life-daughter". Paga, the symbol of physical love, is an undistilled amber colored alcoholic beverage made from the golden sa-tarna grain. Its taste is often described as "hot" and "firey".
a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna
---Outlaw of Gor, p 74
Sul- Paga -
Made from the golden vine borne vegetable called "sul" (resembles an earth potato), Sul-Paga is a distilled, clear alcoholic beverage. It is typically drunk by peasants and seldom available outside their villages.
Sul paga is, when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is as clear as water
---Slave Girl of Gor,p 134
Sul paga, as anyone knew, is seldom available outside of a peasant village, where it is brewed. Sul paga would slow a thalarion. To stay on your feet after a mouthful of Sul paga it is said one must be of the peasants, and then for several generations. And even then, it is said, it is difficult to manage. There is a joke about the baby of a peasant father being born drunk nine months later.
---Slave Girl of Gor, p 414
Liqueurs -
The liqueurs of Turia are usually regarded as the best, but I think this is largely a matter of taste. Those of Cos and Ar, and of certain other cities, are surely very fine.--Kajira of Gor, p 406
First from the kitchen, bearing her tray, came the voluptuous slave of Aemilianuus. Behind her, too with her tray, came the little dark-haired slave. In a moment both were deferentially serving. The collared softness of the dark-haired girl well set off the the metal of the tray, and the small multicolored glasses and bottles upon it.
---Guardsman of Gor, p 254
fermented milk curds -
Drunk by Tuchuks, made from bosk milk and very potent. it would be served in a bowl. No actual description is found in the books, simply mention of it.
By one fire I could see a squat Tuchuk, hands on his hips, dancing and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds, dancing, according to Kamchak, to please the sky.
---Nomads of Gor-p 28
Falarian -.
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.
---Mercenaries of Gor 15:158
"There will be delicacies from as far away as Bazi and Anango," she said, "and we shall open vessels of Falarian from the private stores of the Ubar."
---Magicians of Gor
Ka-la-na -
Made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree, Ka-la-na is a dry red wine stored in bottles that bear the wax seal of the City it came from. As with most wines of Earth, Ka-la-na had various levels of quality, a few of which are specifically mentioned, the best Ka-la-na is said to be from Ar, Gor's prime source of this wine.
'A small bottle,' I said, 'of the Slave Gardens of Anesidemus.'
'I have heard that it is a marvellous ka-la-na.' said the free woman, her eyes alight.
'So too, have I,' I said.
'It is very expensive,' said the woman.
'Are you familiar with it?' I asked.
'Oh,' she said lightly, 'I have had it a few times.'
... 'Oh, it is marvellous ka-la-na,' she purred. I gathered that she had never before had such ka-la-na. True, it might run the buyer as much as three copper tarsks, a price for which some women can be purchased.
---Mercenaries of Gor-25:345
Kal-da -
A mixture of usually cheap Ka-la-na, mulling spices and citrus juice.
Heated in a brewing pot over the fires, Kal-da is ladled into pots or bowls.
Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last empty and cold.
---Outlaw of Gor- p 80
Other girls now appeared among the tables, clad only in a camisk and a silver collar, and suddenly, silently, began to serve the Kal-da which Kron had ordered. Each carried a heavy pot of the foul, boiling brew and, cup by cup, replenished the cups of the men.
---Outlaw of Gor, p 226
Palm wine -
Is mentioned in Explorers of Gor as being one of the exports of Schendi,
"One of her most delicious exports is palm wine."
---Explorers of Gor, p115
Slavewine -
The terms slavewine, breading wone and second wine, are used in reference to mixtures used in birth control. There are two mixtures of slave wine. The first type, is meant to prevent pregnancy whereas the second type is called "breeding wine" and is given to a girl to counteract the effect the slavewine, when her Master wishes to breed her.
Ta-wine -
A dry wine made from the ta-grapes grown primarily on the Isle of Cos.
One girl held our head back, and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweets and dry, from distant Ar
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 213
Turian wine -
A thick syrupy wine so sweet and thick that is it said one can see a thumbprint on its surface.
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, p 84
White wine -
Light in color and taste, note that it is not referred to as Ka-la-na, simply wine.
In the hall was a open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. There were four men and two women at these tables, other than the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past several days, the Lady Metpomene. The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. 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
Made from grains and hops that were brought to Gor during the acquisition voyages,
Gorean Ale is closer to a honey lager than to an Earth ale or beer. Its color is deep and golden. Traditionally kept in a cask or a keg and served in a 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, p 82
Mead -
A dark amber drink of the Northern parts of Gor, brewed from honey and water.
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, p 16
Rence beer-
Brewed from the pith of the rence plant, it is a drink of the rence growers of the Delta of the Vosk.
At such times there is drinking of rence beer, steeped, boiled and fermented from the crushed seeds and the whitish pith of the plant.
---Raiders of Gor, p 18
Juice -
Gorean fruits of course, tospit, larma and other fruits.
Milk-
Fresh milk of the bosk, the verr, and sometimes even the kaiila.
When the meat was ready, Kamchak ate his fill, and drank down, too, a flagon of bosk milk
---Nomads of Gor"TYPE=PICT;ALT=", p 139
.kaiila milk, like verr milk, is used by the peoples of the Tahari; it is reddish and has a strong salty taste, features which one supposes are connected with some sort of climatological adaptation; it has a high iron content; men do not drink it unless water is plentiful;
---Tribesmen of Gor"TYPE=PICT;ALT=", 4:
Water-
The availability of drinking water and the way it is obtained varies depending on the area, culture and available ressources and technology. We see wells in the Tahari desert, aqueducs in Cities, buckets filled at the river shore in forest camps, and as many other ways to obtain water as earth has.
Another useful source of water is the liana vine. One makes the first cut high, over one's head, to keep the water from being withdrawn by contraction and surface adhesion up the vine. The second cut, made a foot or so from the ground, gives a vine tube which, drained, yields in the neighborhood of a liter of water.
---Explorers of Gor p 311
Bazi tea -
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.
---Tribesmen of Gor"TYPE=PICT;ALT=", p 139
Blackwine -
Made from beans brought back to Gor during the early acquisition voyages and grown in the mountain of Thentis, Blackwine is Gor's equivalent of earth's coffee in its most potent form, perhaps only Espresso comes close to the strong taste described.
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 other Gorean cities...Then I picked up one of the thick, heavy clay bowls...It was extremely strong, and bitter, but it was hot, and, unmistakably, it was coffee.
---Assassins of Gor, p 106
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.
---Tribesmen of Gor pp 88 and 89
.The expression "second slave," incidentally, serves to indicate that one does not wish creams or sugars with one's black wine, even if only one girl is serving.
---Guardsman of Gor pp 244-245
Chocolate -
Creamy and warm, from cocoa beans grown in the tropic
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.
---Kajira of Gor p 61
Sa-Paga -
The words Pagar-Sa-Tarna ( Sa-Paga) mean "pleasure of the life-daughter". Paga, the symbol of physical love, is an undistilled amber colored alcoholic beverage made from the golden sa-tarna grain. Its taste is often described as "hot" and "firey".
a strong, fermented drink brewed from the yellow grains of Gor's staple crop, Sa-Tarna
---Outlaw of Gor, p 74
Sul- Paga -
Made from the golden vine borne vegetable called "sul" (resembles an earth potato), Sul-Paga is a distilled, clear alcoholic beverage. It is typically drunk by peasants and seldom available outside their villages.
Sul paga is, when distilled, though the sul itself is yellow, is as clear as water
---Slave Girl of Gor,p 134
Sul paga, as anyone knew, is seldom available outside of a peasant village, where it is brewed. Sul paga would slow a thalarion. To stay on your feet after a mouthful of Sul paga it is said one must be of the peasants, and then for several generations. And even then, it is said, it is difficult to manage. There is a joke about the baby of a peasant father being born drunk nine months later.
---Slave Girl of Gor, p 414
Liqueurs -
The liqueurs of Turia are usually regarded as the best, but I think this is largely a matter of taste. Those of Cos and Ar, and of certain other cities, are surely very fine.--Kajira of Gor, p 406
First from the kitchen, bearing her tray, came the voluptuous slave of Aemilianuus. Behind her, too with her tray, came the little dark-haired slave. In a moment both were deferentially serving. The collared softness of the dark-haired girl well set off the the metal of the tray, and the small multicolored glasses and bottles upon it.
---Guardsman of Gor, p 254
fermented milk curds -
Drunk by Tuchuks, made from bosk milk and very potent. it would be served in a bowl. No actual description is found in the books, simply mention of it.
By one fire I could see a squat Tuchuk, hands on his hips, dancing and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds, dancing, according to Kamchak, to please the sky.
---Nomads of Gor-p 28
Falarian -.
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.
---Mercenaries of Gor 15:158
"There will be delicacies from as far away as Bazi and Anango," she said, "and we shall open vessels of Falarian from the private stores of the Ubar."
---Magicians of Gor
Ka-la-na -
Made from the fruit of the Ka-la-na tree, Ka-la-na is a dry red wine stored in bottles that bear the wax seal of the City it came from. As with most wines of Earth, Ka-la-na had various levels of quality, a few of which are specifically mentioned, the best Ka-la-na is said to be from Ar, Gor's prime source of this wine.
'A small bottle,' I said, 'of the Slave Gardens of Anesidemus.'
'I have heard that it is a marvellous ka-la-na.' said the free woman, her eyes alight.
'So too, have I,' I said.
'It is very expensive,' said the woman.
'Are you familiar with it?' I asked.
'Oh,' she said lightly, 'I have had it a few times.'
... 'Oh, it is marvellous ka-la-na,' she purred. I gathered that she had never before had such ka-la-na. True, it might run the buyer as much as three copper tarsks, a price for which some women can be purchased.
---Mercenaries of Gor-25:345
Kal-da -
A mixture of usually cheap Ka-la-na, mulling spices and citrus juice.
Heated in a brewing pot over the fires, Kal-da is ladled into pots or bowls.
Even the proprietor slept, his head across his folded arms on the counter, behind which stood the great Kal-da brewing pots, at last empty and cold.
---Outlaw of Gor- p 80
Other girls now appeared among the tables, clad only in a camisk and a silver collar, and suddenly, silently, began to serve the Kal-da which Kron had ordered. Each carried a heavy pot of the foul, boiling brew and, cup by cup, replenished the cups of the men.
---Outlaw of Gor, p 226
Palm wine -
Is mentioned in Explorers of Gor as being one of the exports of Schendi,
"One of her most delicious exports is palm wine."
---Explorers of Gor, p115
Slavewine -
The terms slavewine, breading wone and second wine, are used in reference to mixtures used in birth control. There are two mixtures of slave wine. The first type, is meant to prevent pregnancy whereas the second type is called "breeding wine" and is given to a girl to counteract the effect the slavewine, when her Master wishes to breed her.
Ta-wine -
A dry wine made from the ta-grapes grown primarily on the Isle of Cos.
One girl held our head back, and others, from goblets, gave us of wines, Turian wine, sweet and thick, Ta wine, from the famed Ta grapes, from the terraces of Cos, wines even, Ka-la-nas, sweets and dry, from distant Ar
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 213
Turian wine -
A thick syrupy wine so sweet and thick that is it said one can see a thumbprint on its surface.
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, p 84
White wine -
Light in color and taste, note that it is not referred to as Ka-la-na, simply wine.
In the hall was a open circle of small tables, at which a handful of guests, on cushions and mats, reclined. There were four men and two women at these tables, other than the Lady Florence, the hostess, and her guest of the past several days, the Lady Metpomene. The tables were covered with cloths of glistening white and a service of gold. 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