Vol. 62 — Sunday Tables, Milk Bars and Pierogi
Poland
From Kraków bakeries to Warsaw milk bars
Standfirst
Obwarzanki on a Kraków street cart. Żurek on a cold morning. Pierogi pinched by many hands at one table. Poland is tasted at home, in recipes that travel further than the language.
Chapter One
Kraków, before the trams fill
Kraków begins with bread: obwarzanki stacked on street carts, poppy seed and warm dough drifting from bakeries onto the cobbles of the Old Town. On colder mornings there is żurek, the sour rye soup that has been fermenting for days, poured over sausage and a halved egg.
Traditional Polish dishes are rarely hurried. They ask for time — for dough to rest, for cabbage to soften, for a starter to sour — and that patience is what gives the food its depth.
Pierogi are learnt by watching, not reading — many hands, one table, and an argument about the filling.
— At the Sunday table
Chapter Two
Warsaw, between the milk bar and the new table
Warsaw food culture still runs through the bar mleczny, where pierogi, placki and a bowl of soup are served at a counter shared by students, pensioners and office workers. A few streets away, younger cooks rework the same dishes with seasonal produce and lighter hands.
Then there is Sunday: rosół, something roasted, then cake. Bigos simmers for days and improves with every reheating. On Fat Thursday, pączki vanish from every bakery before noon.
Poland at home — the dishes a family still cooks, kept on the wall of the room where everyone gathers.
Chapter Three
Recipes that travel
In Polish families abroad, the dish often outlives the language. Poland wall art and gifts for kitchens that remember pierogi, bigos and pączki.
Apron — the Sunday cook
Blanket — Poland
Kids poster — the next generation
Vol. 62 — Sunday Tables, Milk Bars and Pierogi — the pieces
Shop the Poland pieces
Everything photographed in this issue that is currently in the studio.
Poland · Apron
Poland Food Apron
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Poland · Baby bodysuit
Poland Food Baby Bodysuit Black
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Poland · Blanket
Poland Food Blanket
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Poland · Mouse pad
Poland Food Mouse Pad
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Poland · Food poster
Poland Food Poster Black
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Poland · Sweatshirt
Poland Food Sweatshirt
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Poland · T-shirt
Poland Food T-Shirt
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Poland · Tote bag
Poland Food Tote Bag
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The Collection
The Poland Collection
Pierogi, żurek, bigos, kielbasa, placki, sernik and pączki — the Polish table illustrated for walls, kitchens and thoughtful Polish heritage gifts.
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