Sunday 14 June 2009

traditional lithuanian food

The Jewish Lithuanians call them šaltanosiai and when something like 98% of them were killed in the 1940′s very few real Lithuanians are around now, meaning that not many people know about this dish. It's been about a year since I first learned about saltenosses (or virtinukai for the purists) and after recently talking with his daughter about more Jewish food, she brought in a collection of traditional cookbooks for me to take home to look at. One of the books,...

wonderful Lithuanian food
wonderful Lithuanian food

traditional Lithuanian
traditional Lithuanian

count as Lithuanian food.
count as Lithuanian food.

a traditional Lithuanian
a traditional Lithuanian

Traditional Lithuanian food
Traditional Lithuanian food

Lithuanian people do not have
Lithuanian people do not have

I grew up enjoying Lithuanian traditional food but at Easter this was something completely different. Easter Dinner was the jack pot, the mother load, the meal to end all meals, the trip to the mountain top. Never at any one time...
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In those communities where mitnagdim (non-Chassidic) were dominant (Lithuania, Germany), it was almost considered a mitzvah to eat gebrouchts food in order to make the point that it was permissible. *Traditionally, one...
traditional lithuanian food

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