Valērijs on sour cream

Don’t you miss something from Latvia? Food, for example…
Oh my goodness, of course I do. A milanesa just isn’t the same as our karbonāde (Latvian pork cutlet). A milanesa is kind of tough, breaded and fried, but it doesn’t taste quite like the traditional Latvian ones, which are dipped in egg and flour before frying. Sometimes I really crave a cutlet, or meatball soup! Pickled cucumbers I don’t miss. We’ve learned how to make sour cream ourselves. You buy cream cheese or Greek yogurt, squeeze in a little lemon with some salt, mix it, and you get about 97 percent of the taste of real sour cream.

Valērijs Jakovļevs
Interviewed by Mare Heimrāte, November 10, 2017
Latvians Abroad – Museum and Research Centre interview
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