Belarusian Polesian Foodways

ะŸะฐะปะตััะต

Regional

The great marsh: the Pripyat basin, drained hard in the Soviet period but still a world of water, reeds and islands of dry ground. Fishing, wildfowl, mushrooms, berries, buckwheat and potato, and a speech of its own between Belarusian and Ukrainian. โš  POLESIA CROSSES THREE BORDERS and not all of it is Belarusian.

Atlas โ€” where and when

Communities and languages

  • Poleshuks community documented

Languages: Belarusian

What is recorded

  • Polesia is a cross-border ecological and cultural region spanning Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Russia. Not all Polesian food is Belarusian, and its peopleโ€™s speech lies between Belarusian and Ukrainian rather than inside either. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to Ukrainian Foodways documented

    Ukrainian Polesia is the same marsh and much the same kitchen.

Recipes

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