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| Annora Quote | Reply | | Foods and Animals of the Prairies posted on: 8/23/2003 6:06:04 AM mistress asked that crys move this posting here so that all may have use of the info contained,,, *crys gracefully moving to the posting board, lowers to kneel before it,thanking the Free for allowing her to post,rising delicate fingers close over the writing tool,and begins to write in a beautiful script,,for topaz and herself the compilation of ten each,foods and animals common to the Wagon People,,,,, Foods: Biscuits - Flat pressed biscuits baked from Sa-Tarna flour. Savages of Gor, page 328 Black bread -Baked from Gorean grains; heavy and dark; more common with the low castes; cheap and of poor quality.Hunters of Gor, page 13 Egg -Usually vulo; tiny egss of white grunt; other varieties depending on the region. Assasin of Gor, page 106 Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275-276 Kort - A vegetable with a brownish skin, has a think rind and sphere shaped, usually 6 inches in width; the inside is yellowish and fibrous, heavily seeded; of the Tahari. Tribesmen of Gor, page 37 Rence- pith of Raw or cooked, it is the edible part of the rence plant. Along with fish, it is the main staple food of the rence growers. Rence cakes are made from fried rence paste, cooked on flat stones and sprinkled with rence seeds. Also used sometimes as caulking. Raiders of Gor, page 25 Tur-Pah - are curled, ovate, red leaves, a tree parasite,found on the Tur Trees ,used in making Sullage, a common gorean soup. Priest-Kings of Gor, page 45{also found in the book of Nomads this passage: Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-bunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vine-like tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves of the Tur-Pah incidentally are edible and figure in certain Gorean dishes, such as sullage, a kind of soup; long ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring, planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name; there was also, at one side of the garden, against the far wall, a grove of Tem-wood, linear, black, supple.} Bosk Cheese-is often melted over suls, is made from the milk of the bosk Assassin of Gor, page 168 Tospit-peach like fruit,about the size of plumb. Nomads of Gor, page 59 ram-berry small reddish fruit not unlike tiny plums, save for the many small edible seeds. Tabuck often feed upon them. Book 7: Captive of Gor, pages 207and 305 begs forgiveness having found only nine,, Animals: Vulo a tawny colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild; used for meat and eggs. "Nomads of Gor" p. 1 and 84 Bosk- can be served roasted or sliced as in steaks. Deep pit roasted with herbs and spices. Bosk may be served with slices of kalana and sprinkles of tospit fruit to garnish it. The meat may be served in a myriad of ways, such as roasted, broiled, stewed, dried. On a side note, when found on a spit, the outside is very dark; inside is very pink, very juicy. Basically served rare. It is served with suls and sa-tarna bread, and other vegetables large, shaggy, long horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served. "Priest-Kings of Gor" p. 45 Tumits-a large carnivorous bird of the plains, is hunted and eaten by the Nomadic people of Gor. Traditionally hunted with bolos the sport lies in wether you or the bird gets to eat that night. "Nomads of Gor" p. 2 Fleer - a large, yellow, long-billed, gregarious, voracious bird of the Barres. It is sometimes also called the Cord Bird or the Maize Bird." (Savages of Gor, page 246) Prairie sleen-usually only seven feet in ength. They are domesticated as herd sleen and used as shepherds and sentries by the Wagon People. Prairie tabuk reside in the Barrens. They are tawny, single-horned, and travel in herds. Kailiauk-is is a short-trunked, stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains. Gull of the Vosk Delta and Vosk River, it apparently has a loud or insistent cry, which is imitated by the rence people as a means of surreptitious communication at night. It's feathers are used on sheaf arrows. It winters on the prairies of the Wagon Peoples and flies north in the spring, when the ice breaks up. Book 4: Nomads of Gor, page 137 Kaiila-a silken, carnivorous, lofty creature, graceful, long-necked, smooth-gaited. often called the mount of the Wagon People Rennels- poisonous, crablike desert insectsNomads of Gor, page 27 |