Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past

Super interesting book. My only gripe is that there isn't more on the early middle ages, and that's not limited by the author but by archaeological evidence, so I can't gripe too much!

This book is filled with a wealth of educational material. This book is comprised of mostly history regarding the culture, the food, and the people. The recipes are well written with measurements in english and metric, temperatures are also given in standard and celcius degrees. Most recipes are from the peasant folk with a few meat dishes sprinkled in. Some recipes are common to today's standards while a few of the others would not typically be seen served in today's kitchen. There are approximately 30 recipes or so in this book. Each recipe has its history in terms of how it was served, to whom it was served, and when it was served. The book is a worthwhile read.

This is really more of a history book, to my reading. It has wonderful little known facts that I would never have learned otherwise. There is a lot of research that went into this book, and she obviously worked long and hard to get this book and the history into order. This is a wonderful book for anyone who is interested in Poland or Slavic areas, and the recipies, to me, almost seemed as an afterthought, though I do not doubt they are correct and proper for Poland. Enjoy!!!

This is a translation of one woman's research into a cuisine and a national identity through it's food. Her work seems to have been done in the face of great difficulty as most of it was done during the Soviet era when this would not have been viewed positively. It is a scholarly winnowing of original source material to define a nation through it's food and to examine the influences of it's foreign royal marriages and hostile occupiers. Very very interesting.