Silesian Foodways

Where in the world

• Czechia territory
• Poland territory

Communities and languages

• Silesians community documented

Languages: Silesian, Polish

What is recorded

• Silesian foodways is recorded as its own regional and ethnolinguistic system. It is not Polish, German, Czech, Moravian or "generic Central European" cuisine; all of those are relationships. documented
• Silesia is NOT the modern Silesian Voivodeship. The voivodeship includes Zagłębie Dąbrowskie and parts of Lesser Poland that are not historically Silesian, and excludes Opole Silesia, Lower Silesia and Czech Silesia, which are. The Lower Silesian Voivodeship is likewise not all of Lower Silesia. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• related to Czech Foodways documented

  Silesia was a Bohemian Crown land for centuries and part of it is in Czechia today; dumplings and sauces run across that line.

• related to German Foodways documented

  Prussian and German rule from 1742 to 1945 and a German population until the expulsions; the roulade, the streusel cake and much vocabulary come with it.

• related to Polish 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 Foodways possible

  Through the Beskid pastoral world rather than the lowlands.

• related to Sorbian Foodways possible

  Two Slavic communities inside German states, historically adjacent in Lusatia and Lower Silesia; comparable rather than in close contact.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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