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Once, one of the most striking Latvian business success stories outside the homeland was “Riga Bakery”, founded by Voldemārs Bērziņš in Sydney.
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Kliņģeris & CAKES JUNE 2026 The Cake Was So Big, It Didn’t Fit Through the Door! (Sandra Vlasova) Bergen, Norway The cake was so big that it couldn’t be carried out the door! (Sandra Vlasova) ℹ️ How to watch with English subtitles:Turn on CC → Settings → Subtitles → Auto-translate → English https://youtu.be/UO0VbHdBmzs JUNE Stories The Cake Was So Big, It Didn’t Fit Through the Door! (Sandra Vlasova)...
Andris and Daiga share memories of the kliņģeris they ate in childhood and talk about how they now find a compromise by combining both of their tastes and preferences.
Rasma remembers how her mother baked 15–20 cakes and tortes every year for the town fair in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where the family represented the Latvian booth.
As a child, Baiba often ate honey cake in the school cafeteria. Now, living in Italy, Baiba has taken to making it herself, even when it’s 40 degrees outside!
Ingrīda makes Alexander cake using the 1, 2, 3 principle — with sugar, butter, and flour. She talks about how it is made, often kneading the shortcrust dough while sitting and watching the evening news.
Elisa Freimanis’s mother was one of the DIMD ladies — four close friends and excellent hostesses who prepared Latvian dishes in Chicago. Elisa remembers how her father smoked fish and other foods for them. She also talks about the special fish recipe that was always served on the cold buffet table at large celebrations.
Watch how children and adults took part in fishing and fish smoking at the Norway 3x3 gathering in the summer of 2025.
Inga ate fish in tomato sauce at Easter during her childhood. The recipe was inherited from her grandmother, but Inga learned how to prepare it from her mother. Inga says that it is very simple to make — and tastes fantastic!
Ādolfs Kristapsons (1908–2010), after arriving in Canada as a refugee, opened his own shop in 1953.
Viktors has been eel fishing his whole life. In childhood, he did it together with his father, brother, and his father’s friend Griķis, but now he does it with his Latvian friends.
Solvita and Mārtiņš live in Denmark, where they enjoy angling, fishing, smoking, and grilling fish while following Latvian traditions.
In Inta Gertners’ family, there is a very unusual rasols recipe that she inherited from her grandmother, Milda Veidis (b. 1901).