Food & drink
Food & Drink
Food & Drink
Latvia’s, parishes, cities and villages are inviting guests in for a cup of coffee and a home-made snack as part of an initiaitive called 'Home Cafe Days'.
Following a couple of years of Covid-enforced absence, the popular Zaube Wild Food Festival will make a welcome return and take place on July 9 from 12:00-18:00 at the village of Zaube in Cēsis district.
In June 2022, compared to June 2021, food prices increased in all product categories, according to information available from the Agricultural Market Promotion Centre (LTVC).
To the astonishment of anyone utterly convinced that you cannot eat rhubarb after Midsummer, LSM's Latvian language service confirms that in fact, you can.
One resident of Latvia consumes on average 22 kilograms of cheese and cottage cheese per year, the head of Latvian dairy farmer's central union (LPCS) Jānis Šolks told Latvian Radio on June 26.
Latvia's military personnel should soon be enjoying that nice, full feeling thanks to the introduction of new and improved dry rations, the National Armed Forces (NBS) said June 22.
Buckwheat has become a product of strategic importance in times of great unknowns – store shelves were quickly emptied at the beginning of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Though Latvia grows buckwheat, in shops, the country of origin is usually indicated as someplace else. Latvian Television's 4.studija aired on June 9 sought why.
A survey by the Baltic supermarket chain Maxima suggests that stockpiling food remains popular among consumers even with the falling-away of epidemiological restrictions that prompted it during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is not the appearance of the sun, nor of the tulips, nor even of heavily-perspiring men in ill-fitting sandals that signals that summer has finally arrived in Latvia. It is the appearance of a luminous pink soup with a sliced boiled egg floating in the middle like an all-seeing eye with a sprig of dill as a garish eyelash garnish.
The dairy producer Cesvaines piens (Cesvaine milk) has decided to rename its Krievijas or 'Russian' cheese to Tilzītes (Tilsiter), the company's representative Zane Baķe said April 25.
In case you are among those who have dyed and boiled enough eggs for a small village, LSM's Latvian language service offers four simple recipes with traditional and non-traditional Latvian ingredients to make your life easier.
It's Easter. What does that mean? If you're Latvian, it means colored eggs. How do you color eggs? Many different ways!
As Easter approaches, the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) has laid a clutch of egg-related data out for public consumption.
The Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) has found salmonella in several batches of poultry produced in Poland and sold at Maxima.
The Latvian-based food producer group Food Union has cut "all ties with partners and Russia and also in Belarus", Latvian Television's investigative broadcast Forbidden Method reported March 14.
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