Food writer Caroline Eden celebrates the region’s distinct - and underrated - flavours, from quince lemonade and cloudberry jam to birch syrup and blueberry soup
, its food filled my thoughts more than anything else. I kept picturing the Latvian capital’s cafes, bistros and moody beer bars. Such longing was evidence, to me at least, that I was coming back to a city that knows how to feed people and with memorable flavours: smoked sprats, black pudding sausages, quince lemonade, cloudberry jam, pickled garlic, herby butters and bitter balsams tasting of liquorice.
There were fish with fantastic names that I knew little about: bitterling, tench, butterfish, pipefish, lumpfish But it is at the markets that you best get a sense of Baltic flavours and traditions, and one of the best is Riga Central Market, which showcases the Baltic’s natural larder. And I spotted something I had not noticed at such monster-sized markets elsewhere: handwritten name placards for the pickle vendors – proof of the deeply personal within a huge collective and public space. This made it easier to start up a conversation with Mariya Karavacka, who plunged happily into her subject.
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