Polish Foodways

Where in the world

• Poland territory

Communities and languages

Languages: Polish

What is recorded

• Polish foodways includes regional, ethnic, religious, historical and immigrant traditions. Kashubian, Silesian, Góral, Lemko, Lipka Tatar and Jewish foodways are recorded in their own right. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• part of Northern European Foodways possible
• related to German Foodways documented
• related to Ukrainian Foodways documented

  Centuries of shared territory and documented exchange; two cuisines, not one.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• originates from Polish-American Foodways documented
• related to Baltic Sea Foodways documented
• related to Belarusian Foodways documented

  The Commonwealth, then western Belarus inside Poland between the wars.

• related to Belarusian Lipka Tatar Foodways documented

  Lipka Tatar communities sit on both sides of the modern Belarus–Poland border and share a cuisine.

• related to Borş, Borsch and the Souring Problem documented

  Polish barszcz is a third sense again.

• related to Carpathian Foodways documented
• related to Draniki Foodways documented

  Placki ziemniaczane, deruny, latkes and draniki are one dish family across the region.

• related to Kysele — Soured Grain Soup documented

  Żur and barszcz biały are the same soured-grain technique under other names.

• related to Lemko Foodways documented

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

• related to Lithuanian Foodways documented

  Four centuries of common statehood in the Commonwealth.

• related to Migration and Contemporary Danish Food documented
• related to Pirohy Foodways documented

  Pierogi, varenyky and pirohy are a Carpathian family. Related, and not the same dish.

• related to Pyrohy — Rusyn Filled Dough documented

  Pierogi, varenyky and pyrohy are one boiled filled-dough family; the word does not map onto the same object in every language.

• related to Rusyn Foodways documented
• related to Silesian Foodways documented

  Most of Silesia is in Poland and the exchange is constant; Silesian food is not therefore a branch of Polish cooking.

• related to Slovak Carpathian Foodways documented

  One mountain range, one shepherding tradition, several states.

• related to Slovak Foodways documented
• related to Sorbian Foodways documented

  West Slavic kin and an eastern neighbour across the Neisse: shared sour rye, cabbage, mushrooms and much vocabulary.

• related to Spiš Foodways documented
• related to Šakotis Foodways disputed

  Šakotis, sękacz and Baumkuchen are one spit-baked technique claimed by several traditions.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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