Artist and author Vija Doks talks about her cookbook “LETTS EAT!: A Latvian Cartoon Cookbook” (1992)

Here you can see cookbooks published outside Latvia, which are held in the “Latvians Abroad” museum’s book collection in Riga.

Here you can see cookbooks published outside Latvia, which are held in the “Latvians Abroad” museum’s book collection in Riga.

This is my grandmother Elza Auliciema’s (née Šūpulis, born in Cirgaļi in 1908) cookbook and recipe notebook. The book was published and purchased during the refugee years in Germany. On the inside covers, my grandmother wrote down other, newer recipes in her own handwriting.

My wife Signe and I have been married for around 6 years now. We live in the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA. ……My wife is from Latvia, and I have been to Latvia a dozen times…

Inese Grava-Gubiņa describes recipes that have been hand-written by her mother, grandmother and aunts.

After a few years, we had to find out – where could you get blood sausages? That was in Brooklyn. And where were the good bakeries?

The Daugavas Vanagi Fund’s traveling store in Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1968. In front stands the store manager, Arturs Vancāns. From the collection of the Documentation Centre and Archive of Latvians in Great Britain.

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.

Recipes & Ingredients SEPTEMBER 2025 Riga Supermarket (Silvija Jūrmaliete) Petavava, Canada Arvīds Jūrmalietis’ store “Riga Supermarket” in Petawawa, Canada, around 1956–1957. Arvīds’ daughter Silvija is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the store. From the collection of the Museum “Latvians Abroad” LPplgD2023.197. SEPTEMBRA Stories Liene makes kotletes (rissoles) A nonstop karbonade (pork schnitzel) marathon (Austra Muižniece) Cookbook “Letts Eat!” (Vija Doks) A recipe for friendship and...

I’ve never really missed Kārumi [sweet cottage cheese snacks]. … One thing you can’t get in America, which you can buy in every store in Latvia, is barley groats. If you cook bukstiņputra or something here, the taste turns out completely different.

We found sweet curd snacks in a Russian shop. And we went a bit crazy. We bought 100 of them! And the saleswoman says to us, “For the kids, right?”