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Lemko Foodways

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Ethnolinguistic

The westernmost Rusyn group, of the Low Beskids and the Poprad valley: oat and rye bread, potatoes, soured cabbage and barley, sheep and cow dairy, mushrooms in quantity, and kysele โ€” a soured oat- or rye-bran soup that is the defining Lemko dish. โš  LEMKO IS NOT A KIND OF POLISH: the communities were East Slavic and Byzantine-rite, and their presence in Poland is a fact of geography, not of identity.

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Communities and languages

  • Lemko community documented
  • Lemkos community documented

Languages: Rusyn (Carpathian), Rusyn

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • part of Rusyn Foodways documented
  • related to Boyko Foodways documented
  • related to Hutsul Foodways documented
  • related to Polish Foodways documented

    Geography, the postwar dispersal, and a shared soured-grain soup family โ€” not identity.

  • related to Slovak Foodways documented

    The Presov-region Rusyn villages are the Lemkosโ€™ nearest kin across the ridge.

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