Liene makes kotletes (rissoles)

Liene’s grandmother Biruta always makes the yummiest kotletes (rissoles). But in her childhood Liene didn’t realize that they contained onions…

A nonstop karbonade (pork schnitzel) marathon (Austra Muižniece)

Austra Muižniece, who lives in Rome, talks about Latvian potatoes and airport security checks, about her comfort foods, and about what she always carries in her bag when returning to Italy from Latvia.

Cookbook “Letts Eat!” (Vija Doks)

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

A recipe for friendship and Latvian cookbooks in the diaspora (Signe Rirdance)

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

Cook books published outside Latvia

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

My grandmother’s recipe book (Marianna Auliciems)

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.

How I make rasols (Dustin Becher)

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…

Handwritten recipes from my relatives (Inese Grava-Gubiņa)

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

Vita on the first years in New York

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?

DVF mobile corner store

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.