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Lithuanian Foodways

Lietuvių virtuvė

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The food of Lithuania: potatoes worked harder than almost anywhere — cepelinai, kugelis, vėdarai, žemaičių blynai — rye bread, cold beetroot soup in summer, mushrooms from the Dzūkija pine forests, curd and sour cream, smoked meat and lagoon fish, šakotis on a spit, and a Christmas Eve of twelve meatless dishes.

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Communities and languages

  • Lithuanians community documented

Languages: Lithuanian

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • part of Baltic Foodways documented
  • related to Belarusian Foodways documented

    The Grand Duchy was one polity; kalduny and cepelinai are one family.

  • related to Latvian Foodways documented

    Two Baltic-language nations sharing rye, forest and a long border.

  • related to Polish Foodways documented

    Four centuries of common statehood in the Commonwealth.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Belarusian Foodways documented

    The Grand Duchy was one state for four centuries; kalduny and cepelinai, babka and kugelis are the same family.

  • related to Potato Babka Foodways documented

    Potato babka and kugelis are closely related baked grated-potato dishes.

Regional cuisines

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