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1. Kuchnia łotewska - zestawienie przepisów - Księga smaku
   February 7, 2019

   […] https://web.archive.org/web/20140921142453/http:/latinst.lv/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/The_Cuisine_of_Latvia.pdfhttps://latvianeats.com/recipes […]

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   Laima
   February 5, 2020

   Tik jauki redzēt klasiskas latviešu receptes vienā vietā, un tik jauki formatētas! :)

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   Glen Sheluchin
   December 15, 2020

   I read through some of your recipes and realised how “Latvian I was brought up (fed) – mum (Scheluchin)was born in Riga and married an Australian. The “new Australian ” attitude prevailed around the time (1950’s)so sadly I was never taught Latvian. My grand mother (Erpik) was a fantastic cook – very inventive with ingredients, with twists on a lot of the recipes here. Little wonder as her mum was a french pastry cook. Reading the recipes made me laugh and saddened me at the same time, reminding me of my life as a child eating granma’s wonderful inventions and the vacuum left by her death. Crumbs on the table swept by the hand was money from the house. When using salt – a pinch was always thrown over the left shoulder by right handed person, “salt in the devils eye, she would say” If you got a fright – you must immediately begin spitting ( like in my greek wedding ) this is to rid yourself of the fright?……so many weird things.

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      Irene
      March 4, 2021

      I remember some of those! If we swung our feet at the table, our vecamama would say, “Velns šūpojas us kājām,” (the devil is swinging on your feet.” Always made us stop, ha ha!

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      John Zelvis
      July 5, 2022

      Weird my dad was Latvian WWII refugee and married a dinky di aussie. My mum cooked a lot of these recipes. Unusual food for Aussies in the 60s and 70s. She must have loved him a lot to give him a taste of home.

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   Laura
   February 15, 2021

   Liva! I am so grateful to you for doing this. I am a 1/2 Latvian on my mothers side (she was born in Riga and at age 5, was moved to a refugee camp in Germany where she stayed 8 years before migrating to the U.S.) she passed away last Thursday and I find myself wishing to grieve with Latvian food. do you have a recipe for Galerts? it was what we prepared when my Omite died and I’m craving it. also, do you have other suggestions for Latvian foods that would be typical for mourning?

   thank you.

   Laura

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      Liva
      February 16, 2021

      Dear Laura, I am so sorry to hear about your loss. I’ve done mourning through food too, although in my case it was hamburgers and passionfruit lemonade as that is how I will remember my father. From Latvian point of view, a funeral is followed by a big feast where your usual celebratory dishes will be served – karbonāde (crumbed pork chops), potatoes, all sorts of salad, including potato salad or rosols and pīrāgi wth various fillings. Galerts could make an appearance as appetiser. I’ll send you a recipe, I hope it helps a little bit. Liva

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   Silvija Kalnins
   March 12, 2021

   I was just perusing your receipe file looking for a receipe for “galarts”. Could you post it in your file. It would be greatly appreciated.

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      Liva
      March 14, 2021

      It will be available very soon!

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