For the past four weeks, Britian’s The Guardian newspaper has run a series it has called New Europe. It has spent one week each analysing Germany, France, Spain and finally in the past week, Poland. The introduction to the series says “Who are our neighbours? Too often Europe is discussed and reported through its common [...]
I’ve seen a lot of nice things to eat in Poland, but none of them were pies. The more I think about this the odder it seems. You may wonder why would I spend any time at all thinking about this, but then you don’t know me. Let me get one thing straight from the [...]
Welcome to Polandian on Sunday with a brief summary of what happened this week in Poland. 1. The Polish-Polish pierogi war. Pierogi, dumplings with many varieties of filling, are a Polish specialty. They have also become the subject of a major row. As businesses serving pizza are called pizzerias, those serving pierogi are called pierogarnias. [...]