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Latvian
Books written by Latvian authors, by authors who born or lived in Latvia for a long time and has close connection with Latvia.
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The flavors and food of the Baltics, generally reasonably priced and rich with variety and imagination, can often rival Nordic cuisine (which influences it), yet it is not held in the same esteem. I can still taste the sea buckthorn cheesecake I ate in Klaipėda-- the whole berries set in jelly on top, their sharpness slicing through the full-fat cream cheese-- and the snow-white fillets of pike perch, caught in Pärnu Bay, baked with butter and capers. The exceptional farmstead dairy produce-- in
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― Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
― Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
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Vizma usually loved walking through the streets of Riga. She would pick up her laundry or go on an errand and when she gave her name, there were no puzzled looks, no half smiles. She had a wonderful Latvian name and no one in Riga thought it was funny or weird.
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― Riga Mortis
― Riga Mortis
