Was wondering if anyone had any notes, references or links to sites with a complete list of Latvian festivals throughout the year; information on traditions; and sayings/beliefs.

Found this wikipedia site, but I believe some celebrations might be missing from its list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septinu_Bralu_Diena

Looking as well for information on traditions and sayings/beliefs.

ar cienu.

A good place to start looking for all things latvian is the Latvian Institute website http://www.li.lv

Go to the “culture” heading & look at everything there.  Then go to the “Culture links” pagfe and you will find even more to look at.

Dear members

In the course of our last visit to Latvia, my wife and I had a very tasty meal called ‘karbonade’. Would anyone here have the recipe?

Thanks

Gunars

Try this, while our resident chefs are busy…................cooking.

http://www.iensrecepten.nl/recept/vlees/karbonade/

ps. i think that my oma cooked the chops in sour cream sauce with a
  pinch of paprika and other spices ant stuff…...........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I live in England and Gordon Ramsay is one of the prominent cooks here. So, thank you for the Internet information, which will enable me to locate the recipe, including, I expect, Ramsay’s additional suggestions.

Grateful

Gunars

A celebration missing from that wikipedia list:
http://notikumi.delfi.lv/archive/article.php?id=2934899

The Bookstore at Saulaine, Ontario, Canada has a magnificent book:

Osvalds Lideks: Latviesu Svetki un Latviesu Svinamas Dienas, Scientia, Riga, 1991, hard linen cover, 269 pages.
Includes all holidays, traditions, appropriate folk songs, etc. Originally published in 1940 by the same author under Prof. K. Straubergs.

All books at Saulaine are donated, all donations support Saulaine ( http://www.campsaulaine.com) We can mail anywhere! Make an offer! We have thousands of books in Latvian !

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