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  Lithuanian cuisine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lithuanian cuisine consists mostly of the traditional Lithuanian dishes.
Another important part in the Lithuanian cuisine is the cottage cheeses, of which many sorts are made: sour, sweet, filled with caraway, hard and soft.
Lithuanian style cakes are often baked in a rectangular pan and sometimes have apple or plum slices baked in, or use apricot or other filling, and use icing less often than typical round cakes in the West.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lithuanian_cuisine   (1103 words)

  
 Lithuanians -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lithuanians are a Baltic ethnic group, associated with Lithuania and the Lithuanian language.
However, due to a late medieval view that the Lithuanian language was unprestigious, a preference for the Polish language in the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, as well as a preference for the German language in the territories of the former East Prussia (now Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia) nation of Lithuanian speakers shrank.
A Lithuanian nation as such remained primarily in Lithuania, in a few villages in Poland and Latvia and also in the hearts and minds of a diaspora of emigrants.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Lithuanians   (1315 words)

  
 Lithuanian cuisine: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lithuanian cuisine consists mostly of the traditional Lithuania[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]n dishes, EHandler: no quick summary.
A cuisine (from french cuisine, meaning "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; itself from latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the latin verb coquere,...
Polish cuisine is a mixture of slavic and foreign culinary traditions....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/lithuanian_cuisine.htm   (265 words)

  
 Cooking with Oonagh - Lithuanian Cooking Classes
What I find particularly pleasing is that at least half of the participants are of Lithuanian descent and confirm that the dishes bring back memories of the foods cooked by their mothers and grandmothers.
Lithuanian cooking relies heavily on potatoes and flour, from which a hearty meal can be made.
The recipes in the Lithuanian Heritage Magazine in the section 'Let's cook Lithuanian' quite clearly state that they don't have a test kitchen so they will have to accept the writers word that the recipe is delicious.
www.geocities.com /CookingWithOonagh/c-lithuanian.html   (1150 words)

  
 National cuisine - IAE regionas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lithuanians are especially fond of rye bread, often cooked with malt.
Lithuanians have long since enjoyed cabbage, beetroot, carrots, and beans as part of their daily meals.
Mushroom soup with "ears" is filled with ears made of dried boiled mushrooms together with chopped and slightly fried onion; a sweet Lithuanian soup is made with French plums; their tomato soup with rice is very simple but very tasty when cooked with stewed tomatoes and meat broth.
www.inppregion.lt /en/national_cuisine_visaginas   (627 words)

  
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Lithuanians usually eat three times per day, but during periods of hard and intense work, especially in summer, mid morning and late afternoon snacks are added to the daily eating routine.
Lithuanians consider eating a holy event and behavior at table is like in church, quiet, orderly and reverential.
Lithuanians are happy and sober, they drink slowly because they want to extend the socializing, they often share the same drinking glass.
ausis.gf.vu.lt /eka/food/intro_food.html   (1637 words)

  
 Lithuanian Cuisine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Here are some recipes of Lithuanian cuisine: Cold beet soup 3 cups of boiled water, 2-3 cooked beets, cut in strips, 1 stalk of fresh...
Lithuanian cuisine delicacies CULTURAL HERITAGE The museum of Ethnography in Punsk TOURIST ROUTES The green rue route POLISH-LITHUANIAN...
...Lithuanian cuisine consists mostly of the traditional Lithuanian dishes, which is richer than the.....Major influences include the Polish cuisine and the Scandinavian cuisine.The most...
www.theomc.com /lithuanian-cuisine.html   (164 words)

  
 Cuisine @ VariedTastes.com (Varied Tastes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A cuisine (from French cuisine, meaning "cooking; culinary art; kitchen"; itself from Latin coquina, meaning the same; itself from the Latin verb coquere, meaning "to cook") is a specific set of cooking traditions and practices, often associated with a place of origin.
New cuisines are constantly evolving, as certain aesthetics rise and fall in popularity among professional chefs and their clientele.
Cuisines of the Americas are based on the cuisines of the countries from which the immigrant peoples came, primarily Europe.
www.variedtastes.com   (1593 words)

  
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Polish, Latin, Lithuanian and Ruthenian (the latter in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, actually called the "Republic of the Two Nations" or "Commonwealth of Both Nations" (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów; Lithuanian: Abiejų tautų respublika) was a federal aristocratic republic that was formed in 1569 by the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and lasted until its final partition in 1795.
The Commonwealth comprised primarily four nations: Lithuanians, Poles, Ukrainians and Belarusians (the latter two referred usually as the Ruthenians).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polish-Lithuanian_Commonwealth   (5635 words)

  
 International Business Intelligence: Lithuania
Lithuanian is considered to be the living language closest to Sanskrit.
Lithuanians are hard-working, and office hours are longer than in many parts of the EU (generally 8 am to 6pm).
Lithuanian cuisine is northern European with some Russian and Polish influences.
www.lingo24.com /international_business_intelligence/lithuania.html   (1345 words)

  
 Encyclopedia entries starting with LIT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lithuanian Jews, (In Yiddish known as Litvish or Litvaks) are Ashkenazi Jews who have their origins in historic Lithuania.
Lithuanian is the official language of Lithuania, spoken by about 4 million native Lithuanians.
Lithuanian National Drama Theatre is one of the biggest theatres in Lithuania.
encycl.opentopia.com /L/LI/LIT   (10420 words)

  
 Northern European Milk Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A bucket of water and an empty bucket for the milk are left in the field near the cow -- and in this case -- a milking stool and jar of pork fat are left by the cow as well.
On a Lithuanian farm there is always fresh milk, sour cream, sour milk, butter, cheese, curds, and whey, the watery residue left after making curds.
Even when we stay focused on one broad cuisine, such as "Italian," we are usually oblivious to the external factors out of which farm-based dishes evolved, and that created a harmonious constellation of dinner-time offerings.
www.williamrubel.com /tradtional.foods/milk.cow.html   (822 words)

  
 Peoplesite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A typical Lithuanian girl is tall, slim and blond.
Lithuanians have superior education twice as much as the EU average.
Lithuanians eat a lot of potatoes and fat food, a lot of bread and sweet things -but still Lithuanians are thin and tall.
www.people.hojoster.dk /SEEEMS/2300.asp   (166 words)

  
 Šakotis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Šakotis is a popular Lithuanian traditional cake, a version of German Baumkuchen.
It can be decorated with chocolate and flower ornaments, but usually it is served as it is, without decorations.
Šakotis is one of the most important desserts in Lithuanian celebrations, especially during wedding parties or birthday anniversaries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/%C5%A0akotis   (143 words)

  
 Baltic Business Monitor. Lithuania. January-February 2005. Compiler News.
Lithuanian beer exports totalled 360,000 litres in January, surging by 50 percent from the first month of 2004.
It is forecasted that the leasing portfolio is to surge by 30 percent to LTL 5 billion in 2005.
Lithuanian air carriers raised the total passenger flow by 48.1 percent, year-on-year, to 589,200 in 2004.
www.compiler.fi /tradestation/baltics/lithuania/lt-archive/lt-archive2005/lt.week5.05.html   (2189 words)

  
 Suwalszczyzna - Suwalki Region
Books describing Lithuania emphasise the fact that Lithuanians are hard-working, economical, persistent and pious people attached to their native land.
The whole world for a Lithuanian is his home with fields, meadows, rivers and forests which surround it.
Lithuanian cuisine is famous for delicious dishes, which you can taste and check for yourself in "Sodas", a restaurant in Puńsk.
www.suwalszczyzna.pl /eng_ver/eng16.htm   (794 words)

  
 Cooking with Oonagh - Lithuanian Cooking Classes
Popular Lithuanian Recipes - compiled and edited by Josephine J. Dauzvardis, Consul General of Lithuania in Chicago.
I have also been given recipes by attendees for a variety of recipes from their mother or grandmother who are Lithuanian.
It is important to reintroduce recipes from these many books that will be used time and again by the class and help to continue interest in the Lithuanian Culture by its food.
www.geocities.com /cookingwithoonagh/c-lith-research.html   (321 words)

  
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I was the only non-ethnic Lithuanian in the class, and quickly established myself as the best student, which of course, endeared me to her.
Lithuanians then were a tiny minority in Vilna, which was politically Polish and ethnographically Yiddish.
Like many Lithuanians, she was nostalgic about Jewish cooking (yes I know, its hard to believe: when people ask me about Lithuanian cuisine I remark that one can judge it from the fact that the Lithuanians seem to be the only East Europeans who have borrowed dishes from the Jews.
shakti.trincoll.edu /~mendele/vol03/vol03.224   (808 words)

  
 Desbladet: på nätet sedan 2001.
Lithuanian cuisine tends towards the hearty: the trademark dish is the zeppelin ("The one can't imagine Lithuanian table without zeppelin on it") a dumpling allegedly of potato that is really a gelatinous wodge of starch, stuffed with meat and covered with a sauce of soured cream and bacon, and very nice with it.
On menus, as almost everywhere else, the text is given in Lithuanian and Engleesh, and Russian is conspicuous by its absence.
Lithuanian border guards are very fond of Russians, especially their company, are can barely stand the thought of parting from them.
piginawig.diaryland.com /jul03.html   (1936 words)

  
 WILLA DECJUSZA W KRAKOWIE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On 14 February, on the occasion of National Day of the Lithuanian Republic and due to the Honorary Consul, Prof.
Jan Widacki’s initiative, The Lithuanian Ball was organised in Villa Decius.
Among the attractions, there were traditional Lithuanian cuisine, a concert of Joanna Słowińska songs, an auction and a charity draw.
www.villa.org.pl /e_2.php?nr=24   (67 words)

  
 Kaunas  - Food & Drink  - Lithuanian  Lithuania - In Your Pocket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lithuanian places can feel a bit basic and barn-like, but downstairs here you’ll find all the country charm without the rough edges.
A classy and spirited Lithuanian restaurant chain that does not take itself too seriously, and unlike the others, seems to get around the campy clichés of Lithuanian country life.
The Lithuanian food is practical and modern, not the sort of traditional food that no one bothers to make at home anymore.
www.inyourpocket.com /lithuania/kaunas/en/category?cid=4188&chid=130   (1300 words)

  
 Pierogi -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pierogi are of virtually untraceable Central or Eastern European origin; claims have been staked for the Poles, Russians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Rusyns, Slovaks, and the Czechs.
Similarity to dumplings found in the Far East such as Chinese pot-stickers fuels speculation, well-founded or not, that the Mongols and Tatars brought the recipe to the West.
In Russian cuisine, pirozhki (also piroshki, or Ukrainian pyrizhky) are small stuffed buns made of either yeast dough or short pastry.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Pierogi   (669 words)

  
 FOOD AND DRINK, Lithuania Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
Lithuanian cuisine, based on traditional peasant dishes, is less bland than that of its Baltic neighbours, partly as a result of Polish influence.
Some restaurants serve indigenous cuisine, and even the ubiquitous post-Soviet chops (karbonadas) and roast meat (kepsnys), tend to be better than in the other Baltic States.
The leading Lithuanian fire-waters are Starka, Trejos devynerios and Medziotoju - invigorating spirits flavoured with a variety of herbs and leaves.
www.infohub.com /destinations/Europe-&-Russia/Lithuania/83076.htm   (387 words)

  
 Arts & Culture
In the year 2000, over 219 million liters of Lithuanian beer were sold in the country — which has a population of 3 million — a 13 percent jump from the previous year.
Born in Russia in 1918 to a family of Lithuanian political deportees, Kazickas returned to his homeland when he was four, eventually earning an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Vilnius.
Lithuanian Yiddish is considered to be the foundation of literary Yiddish language.
www.internationalspecialreports.com /europe/01/lithuania/arts_culture   (4898 words)

  
 10 reasons to visit Lithuania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There are options for every taste and occasion, from typical Lithuanian cuisine to exotic ethnic restaurants, from bargain eateries to formal restaurants.
Lithuanians are proud of their national traditions that often involve pre-Christian elements.
Lithuanian song festivals, along with similar festivals in the neighbouring Baltic States, have received international recognition with UNESCO putting them on its list of Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
www.liettua.fi /10reasons/en/10reasons_en2.html   (501 words)

  
 Beznazwy1
It will present cultural heritage, cultivating of traditions, rites or Lithuanian cuisine and its specifity which is preserved not only in Lithuania but also on Polish-Lithuanian borderland.
In the past the land was being occupied and colonized, christianized and socialized.
From ethnographic point of view Lithuanians are divided into two basic groups: Highlanders, in Lithuanian called "Aukstaiciai", and Samogitians called "Zemaiciai".
www.punskas.pl /tourist/eng.htm   (643 words)

  
 World InfoZone - Lithuania Information - Page 1
The population of Lithuania was estimated at 3,596,617 in 2005.
Traditional Lithuanian cuisine includes soups (beet, sauerkraut and sorrel), stews, sausages, smoked meat and rye bread.
Lithuanians drink milk, fruit juices, tea, coffee, beer (alus) and mead (a liquor made with honey).
www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=Lithuania   (433 words)

  
 Vegetarian Lithuanian Recipes
The Lithuanian people, being quite resourceful, simply adapted their recipes to suit the needs of the time.
Consequently, there is a wealth of modified traditional Lithuanian dishes suited to the vegetarian cuisine.
From the misraine's I have seen brought to Lithuanian club functions made by various women, I don't believe there are any hard and fast rules on the ingredients of this dish.
mywebpages.comcast.net /MKarustis/AmberRoots/LithVeg.html   (1068 words)

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