Food & drink
Beekeepers predict that overall honey yields are likely to be good this year. Because of the cool spring and late plant blooms, there are also large differences among keepers. The trade is also affected by the increase in energy resources and fuel, Latvian Radio reported August 3.
What are Latvian traditional foods – and which of them are national? Cuisine researcher and enthusiast Brigita Puriņa sought to answer this question within Latvian Radio's educational broadcast Vai zini? (Do you know?)
After several years of silence, the Sklandrausis festival will return to Dundaga this weekend, TV9 Pakalni reported on July 21.
Any notion that the Latvian diet is a particularly healthy one consisting of the consumption of copious qualities of gherkins and forest berries is comprehensively mashed by Eurostat figures showing Latvians eat fewer fruit and vegetables than their EU counterparts.
Two months after arrival in Latvia, war refugees from Severodonetsk opened a restaurant in Latvia, Tukums municipality. It has not been easy to start a business in Latvia, as the expectations of state aid were not fulfilled, Vidzeme regional television reported July 15.
Compared to the previous quarter and the corresponding period of last year, the increase in food prices is declining, according to data compiled by the Latvian Association of Traders (LTA), newswire LETA reported July 13.
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.
Most important
Most read
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.