Lithuanians loved beef since the olden times but it was perfected by Bona Sforza, the Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old. Bona Sforza grew exotic herbs and vegetables in manor’s gardens.

Only the nobility could afford fish during the Middle Ages. According to the written sources, Grand Master of Livonian Order sent a special gift, some fish, to Vytautas the Great, when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania expanded as far as the Black Sea.