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Culinary Cultures in Eastern Europe

Few topics are as multifaceted as the subject of food and drink. It ties individual sensory experience and culinary satisfaction to practically every other aspect of human life. It is also an important, but often overlooked, part of our shared cultural legacy. Eating and drinking, therefore, to a great extent both shape and are shaped by our history, as shown in the contributions to this key topic.

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Laima chocolate – a Riga icon

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Latvia’s most famous confectioner and its Jewish origins
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If you’ve ever visited Latvia, you’ll probably have heard of the chocolate brand Laima. Perhaps you’ll even have seen the Laima Clock, a popular meeting point in central Riga. Laima products have been among Latvia’s most successful exports all the way back to the 1920s. What’s less well...

Mayonnaise

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The quintessence of Russian cuisine
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Russian cuisine, especially festive cuisine, is simply unimaginable without mayonnaise. Salads such as seledka pod šuboj (herring in a fur coat), salat oliv'e (olive salad), krabovyj salat (surimi salad), mimoza (mimosa salad) and many more, as well as meat dishes such as mjaso po franzuski (meat...

Siberian food and European taste

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Siberian eating habits in the 18th century, as seen through the eyes of European travellers
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This article invites the reader to join a culinary journey through Siberia in the 18th century in a company of ethnographers from Europe and the Russian Empire. For the Russian Empire, the 18th century was a time of great expeditions to explore the vast imperial territory that extended all the way...

Prague Coffeehouse Culture around 1900

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It would be almost impossible to imagine the rich history of European café culture without the Vienna coffeehouses or the Paris cafés. By contrast, the Czech capital, Prague, tends to be more associated with the consumption of beer. Yet, in the history of that city, the tradition of the...

Lembergs’s Coffeehouse Culture Before the First World War

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Poles, Ukrainians and Jews mingling and meeting over coffee and tea
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The east Galician city of (Lemberg) Lviv had a lively coffeehouse culture during the Habsburg Empire. Poles, Jews and Ukrainians would gather over pots of coffee and tea. As the First World War approached, however, a growing sense of nationalism could also be felt in these otherwise convivial...

Staesz Pfefferkuchen Spices!

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The name alone is evocative of family traditions. It carries the promise of delicious cakes and biscuits, particularly in the run-up to Christmas.
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