Latvian food is honest, root-vegetable-and-rye-anchored Baltic cuisine. Riga's Central Market - one of Europe's largest, built into former WWI zeppelin hangars - is the country's beating culinary heart. Rye bread, smoked sprats, grey peas with bacon (national dish), pīrāgi pastries, and Black Balsam herbal liqueur define the table.
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Signature dishes of Latvia
A growing index of the canonical dishes from Latvia, what they are, where they came from, and where in the country to eat them.