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Latvian Foodways

Latviešu virtuve

National

The food of Latvia: rupjmaize, the dark sweet-sour rye bread that is close to a national symbol; grey peas with bacon; sklandrausis and pīrāgi; smoked fish from the Kurzeme coast and sprats from Riga; curd, sour cream and fresh Jāņi cheese with caraway; forest mushrooms and berries; rye kvass and black balsam.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Latvians community documented

Languages: Latvian

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

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

    Neighbours in Livonia for seven centuries, with much shared and two unrelated languages.

  • related to Russian Foodways documented

    Latgale above all, and two centuries in the Russian Empire.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Lithuanian Foodways documented

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

Regional cuisines

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