Visitors are offered not just look at the making of freak-bikes, but also the cultural events program. There will be juggling shows and musical performances. The event will conclude with freakbike parade and electronic music concert.

BOLTIK BAIK 2012 

CULTURE PROGRAMME

May 9	21:00	Mahi Bukimi [live experimental electronica]
May 10	20.30	Balkan ZOO juggling show [Kristaps Krolls]
May 11	20.30	Eņģelis Baiba Dēķena & Friends Fanatic [jet-operation] Nerone [polarities]
May 12	14:00 20.00	Freakbike parade SSNESNON [concert of electronic music ensemble] Kaktiņš un Stūrītis NONSENSS

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Liepāja’s menciņi

Liepāja will not let the guests to leave hungry. And in order not to break one’s head while studying the menu, now everybody has an opportunity to choose a special Liepaja’s dish - Liepāja’s menciņi - in any of the city’s cafes and restaurants.

It is highly suggested dish because in Liepāja it has a very special taste! Menciņi is cooked using an old fashioned country cooking recipe from Southern Kurzeme – potatoes, smoked cod and onions in a hot pot.

Population living in coastal areas of Kurzeme – the Livs and the Kurshi – used dried, smoke-dried or easily smoked cod in the menu even before the arrival of German settlers in the 13th century. Later, dried cod is found, for example, in the export lists of the Hanseatic cities.

During the Livonian Order and the Duchy of Courland this product was used in the daily menu very often. Everybody ate cod - knights, priests and monks, barons, counts and dukes, the fishermen, seafarers and farmers. Dried cod was used as a starter, main course or a supplement. Quite often a wanderer, sea robber, or a fisherman only with a dried cod in the bosom could get along for several days.
Dried cod in large quantities was taken in the ships which went to explore the colonies of the Duchy of Courland – Gambia in North Africa, Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean Sea.
The nutritional value of dried cod has been known already long ago. It was observed that population living in coastal areas less often suffered from illnesses such as rheumatism and gout. It is because of higher concentration of iodine salt in the Baltic cods.