It is the way of life to always take you by surprise. For many years I felt like I was writing "Polska" only for myself. Then finally it all happened at once – the dreamt-of book deal… and the pregnancy. Two babies had decided to...
Polish is not the first cuisine that comes to mind when you utter the word "vegetarian", and yet there are many recipes that are either vegetarian or lend themselves particularly well to being meat-free. Poland, being a Catholic country, has many "fasting" days. In days...
As the climate becomes more Mediterranean so should our diets! I don't mean to trivialise climate change, it's just that in the UK a slight climate change isn't such a terrible thing. Weather has never bean our strong point. So far this year it's been...
Life changes suddenly. Just a month ago I was waking up some time before midday, working at a lazy pace for a couple of hours on whatever I felt like working on and mostly had no idea which day of the week it was. Now...
I'm in Greece doing non-specific, food-related research.That may sound like I'm just on holiday and eating a lot...
Kasha ("kasza" in Polish), or grains, are such a common food stuff here that actually we have sayings about them. For example, a person may be described as someone who "doesn't let anyone blow on their kasha", meaning that they don't let anyone boss them...