Although decidedly bunny-free, things do finally take on a more lighthearted air the next day.Easter Monday is also known as Dyngus Day(Śmigus Dyngusin Polish), or 'Wet Monday',which is dominated bypublic water fights andeveryone being given carte blanche to drench anyone they see with wa...
Today, the scene doesn’t seem all that impressive from a cinematic perspective, but it was the Star Wars of its day. The audience would have gasped not only at the giant gorilla, but also at the fighter planes buzzing around the Empire State Building, shooting at it. After all, war pl...
Byline: Sandy Strickland Genevieve Lane used her carving skills to churn out about 1,000...By StricklandSandy
[See for example Sobótka] Links with tradition are felt the strongest during the greatest religious feasts, such as Christmas, Easter, Corpus Christi processions and All Saints' Day.St. Andrzejki Day Rituals Not diamonds, but picket fences, melted candle wax and walnut shells are a girls bes...
This unique and humble soup is popular in many West Slavic states but the Polish version istraditionally eaten around Easter time. It’s known as the Polish Ryemeal Soup and is made byfermenting the cereal (Rye) and cooking it with sausage, bacon or ham. It’s creamy, smokey, cooked wit...
Easter is fast approaching and I am sure your plans for family gatherings are well underway. Your family may have dinner or brunch reservations as a way to celebrate without all the fuss of cooking a huge home dinner. Or you may be continuing a long standing tradition of a huge dinner at...
Five days later, there's another food-based tradition, which may not exactly be to everyone's taste. Celebrated on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, the last day to indulge before Wielki Post (The Great Fast/Lent) begins. It's also the day that marks the end of the Karnawał (Carniva...
(according to the Polish tradition - food must be meatless that day). Other kinds of pierogi, particularly popular during the summer, are sweet pierogi. Seasonal fruits are used as a filling: mainly bilberries or strawberries. Pierogi filled with a specially prepared sweetened Polish curd cheese ...
But Paczki (punch-key) Day has become much more than a Polish-American tradition. And nobody does it better than Rudy's Strudel in Parma where lines will form early and continue all day. People will ask for paczkis, not realizing that paczki is already the plural of paczek (punch-ek)....
This paper is an ethnobotanical review of wild edible plants gathered for consumption from the end of the 18th century to the present day, within the present borders of Poland. 42 ethnographic and botanical sources documenting the culinary use of wild pl