Saveur reports,
"When someone says 'Polish food,' what dishes come to mind? If you’ve conjured up images of hearty gołąbki, kiełbasa, and bigos, you’re not alone—as proven by one look at the 71,000-strong Facebook group I Love My Polish Heritage. But back in Poland, people’s eating habits are changing rapidly, and today those traditional dishes are more the exception than the rule. 'Polish people don’t eat pierogi with farmer’s cheese and potatoes, or cabbage rolls, or schabowy much anymore. These dishes do appear on our plates but don’t dominate our diets,' says Michał Korkosz, author of Fresh from Poland: New Vegetarian Cooking from the Old Country, and Polish’d: Modern Vegetarian Cooking from Global Poland. What’s more, meat-and-potatoes is certainly not what’s currently being served in Warsaw’s top restaurants, where a quiet revolution is taking place."
This interesting article includes a bit of history of Polish cuisine along with commentary on how Polish cuisine has changed in recent years.
Thank you to Piotr for sending this in. 😀
I think that this is part of the general homogenization of diets all over the world. For example, in the USA, the makers of Polish foods commonly sell them to non-Poles. In the USA, not only Mexicans eat Mexican food and not only the Chinese eat Chinese foods.
ReplyDeleteI think the point is what you call „Polish food” in the USA is hardly that, just as the culture of Polonia has very little to do with the actual Polish culture.
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