Ruta Degutis is president of the Lithuanian Club in Cleveland. She explained the appetizers the group would be served. Lithuanian sushi – herring in a tomato and onion sauce served at Christmas and in winter, Lithuanian dark rye garlic bread and a salad of bread, cheese and lentils.
Greens are not used in salads because it is a cold climate and lettuce and greens are not available.
Ruta spoke at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
Ruta Degutis welcomed the crowd to the Lithuanian Club in Cleveland. Ruta spoke at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club.
The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
Ruta Degutis gave a short history of Lithuanian at an event at the Lithuanian Club in Cleveland. She spoke about the 1000 years as a nation, Poland, amber, the female president, music festivals and more.
Ruta spoke at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
Dan Hanson of ClevelandPeople.Com told about the Lithuanian Cultural Garden in Cleveland, one of the 30 or so in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.
It was dedicated in 1936 and features the Pillars of Gediminas, Fountain of Biruta and busts honoring Jonas Basanavicius, Maciulis Maironis and Vincas Kudirka. It is a two-level garden both on East and MLK Blvd.
Dan spoke at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
Ruta Degutis and Linas Johansonas told about the entrees of Lithuania that would be served to the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventurers at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania. http://www.clevelandpeople.com/passport.htm
The potato is the main crop of Lithuania so the entrees naturally use that.
The entrees included Cepelinai, the national dish of Lithuanian along with Kugelis (potato pudding), Vedarai (potato sausage) and a more familiar sausage and sauerkraut.
Ruta Degutis told about the desserts of Lithuania that would be served to the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventurers at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club.
The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania. She explained the famous Tree Cake which, because it is used as a wedding cake, she calls a Horny Cake.
She also explained their custom liqueur shot which included honey from her own bees and about 20 spices like cinnamon, cardamom, clove, caraway, etc.
Virginija Juodisius-Rubinski played a traditional Lithuanian wedding song played on the kanklės which is a Lithuanian plucked string musical instrument of the zither family.
The instrument is similar in construction and origin to the Latvian kokle, Russian gusli, Estonian kannel and Finnish kantele. The song is a Lithuanian wedding song where the friends and family of the bride say farewell.
She played at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
Dan Hanson told the story of the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Basketball games.
In 1988 in Seoul the USSR led by pro players (including Lithuanian NBA stars Arvydas Sabonis and Šarūnas Marčiulionis) defeated the US team of college players.
The rules changed and in 1992 the Dream Team of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, Magic Johnson and others defeated everyone to reclaim the gold.
By 1992 the USSR had fallen and Lithuania had its own team which captured the bronze in Barcelona. They wore tie-dye uniforms in their flag color designed by the Grateful Dead. They were the Other Dream Team.
Dan spoke at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
Ruta Degutis gave a history of Lithuanian Club in Cleveland.
It was started in 1920 at East 67th and Superior where their church, St George, was founded. It has moved a few times and now is on East 185th Street in Cleveland.
Ruta spoke at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
Ruta Degutis of the Lithuanian Club of Cleveland told about her trip to the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania.
Estimates say over 100,000 crosses were there in 2006 and it keeps growing.
Ruta spoke at the ClevelandPeople.Com Passport Adventure to Lithuania at the Cleveland Lithuanian Club. The Passport Adventurers visit traditional ethnic restaurants and showcases the food, culture, history of the country – in this case Lithuania.
