Bosk: large, shaggy, long-horned bovine similar to the Earth cow; cattle; served as beef is served.

Fish: many different varieties of fish are consumed. eg parsit - a silvery fish having brown stripes and wingfish - tiny bluesalt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin; its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.

Kes: a shrub whose salty, blue secondary roots are a main ingredient in sullage.

Kort: a rinded fruit of the Tahari; served sliced with melted cheese and nutmeg.

Larma: 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.

Ram-berries: small, succulent purple berries.

Sa-Tarna: grain, specifically wheat.

Sa-Tassna: meat; food in general.

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.

Sorp: a shellfish, common esp. in the Vosk river, similar to an oyster; like an oyster.

Sul: starchy, golden-brown, vine-borne fruit; principal ingredient in sullage, a tuberous vegetable similar to the potato; often served sliced and fried.

Sullage: a soup made principally from suls, tur-pah, and kes, along with whatever else may be handy.

Tarsk: porcine animal akin to the Earth pig, having a bristly mane which runs down its spine to the base of the tail.

Tospit: a bitter, juicy citrus fruit.

Tur-pah: an edible tree parasite with curly, red, ovate leaves; grows on the tur tree; a main ingredient in sullage.

Vulo: a tawny-colored poultry bird, similar to a pigeon, which also exists in the wild, used for meat and eggs.