Cuisines of the Baltic: Lithuania

For a general introduction to the three Baltic cuisines –Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian. Historic Lithuanian cuisine, established during the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, was developed in the kitchens of the aristocracy and gentry. This process was interrupted by the dissolution of the great Polish-Lithuanian Empire. The beginnings of a separate food tradition, that of the Lithuanian peasantry, can be traced back only to the nineteenth century. This grew into the new Lithuanian cuisine, and has no real connection with the older one. Rather it has many features in common with the other Baltic cuisines.