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Belarusian Foodways

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The food of Belarus: potatoes in more forms than anywhere else in Europe โ€” draniki, babka, kalduny, komy โ€” rye bread and sour rye soups, mushrooms and berries from enormous forests, freshwater fish, pork and salo, sour milk and curd, kvass and birch sap, and a preserving year built for a long winter.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Belarusians community documented

Languages: Belarusian

What is recorded

  • Belarusian foodways is its own system. Russian, Polish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian foodways are relationships; a shared dish is not evidence of a single origin, and Belarusian terminology is not replaced with Russian here. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Lithuanian Foodways documented

    The Grand Duchy was one state for four centuries; kalduny and cepelinai, babka and kugelis are the same family.

  • related to Polish Foodways documented

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

  • related to Russian Foodways documented

    Three centuries in the Russian Empire and then the USSR; much shared and neither one the other.

  • related to Ukrainian Foodways documented

    Polesia runs across the border and so do its dishes.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

  • related to Cepelinai Foodways documented

    Cepelinai and potato kalduny are the same dish family across the old Grand Duchy.

  • related to Lithuanian Foodways documented

    The Grand Duchy was one polity; kalduny and cepelinai are one family.

  • related to Machanka โ€” the Dipping Sauce documented

    Machanka is a shared name across a wide Slavic area for different contents.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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