Explore Latvian cuisine — gray peas with bacon, rupjmaize rye bread, skābeņu zupa, and the Baltic rye-and-dairy table.
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Latvian cuisine is built on rye (rupjmaize dark rye bread), grey peas, pork, potatoes, and dairy. Pēku zirņi ar speķi (grey peas with fried bacon and onion) is the national dish; skābeņu zupa (sorrel soup), rupjmaizes kārtojums (rye-bread dessert), and Jāņi (midsummer) caraway cheese anchor the canon. Distinct from neighbouring Baltic cuisines through grey peas and Jāņu siers cheese.