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Product Description A perennial bestseller, Polish Heritage Cookery is the most extensive and varied Polish cookbook ever published. More than 2,200 recipes use easily available American ingredients and measurements. Modern Polish cuisine is a blend of hearty peasant dishes and more elegant gourmet fare, incorporating a broad cross-section of cultural influences. The book includes numerous cultural notes, historical accounts of Polish culinary traditions, and descriptive line drawings. Its expanded edition includes information on Polish products available in the United States, such as plum butter, honey mushrooms (opie´nka), and kielbasa, and their culinary uses. Complete with full color photographs.
Babcia's BibleDecember 20, 2009 kinga(Perth, Australia) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you ever wanted to know where Babcia learned to cook - this is it! Every conceivable Polish recipe can be found on these pages, provided with loving detail and insider tips. Mr Strybel makes it his business to ensure you get the "feel" of Polish cooking, not just the bare bones..He provides a very useful intro describing what makes Polish cooking unique, what kept it relatively unknown and unappreciated, what gives it its national flavour and even why Poles use the ingredients they do - fascinating insights, not just for Poles.
There are just enough photos and step-by-step illustrations to make things easy and inspiring, and whole sections are devoted to making your own produce, such as dairy products and meat products not readily available outside Europe. This is an immense help to Westerners who don't even seem to have access to natural, raw milk these days - Mr Strybel has some interesting things to say about health benefits and modern nutrition here! Though probably not his intent, Mr Strybel makes some of the most compelling arguments for a return to "slow" food I have ever read.
Although ingredients aren't listed at the beginning of recipes (to save space) it really isn't that much of a big deal - after all, when you're cooking you probably have to read through the recipe a few times anyway to get the feel for the job, thus familiarising yourself with what's required. Instead, Mr Strybel has provided an excellent index, in both Polish and English, making recipes easy to find, even by ingredient, which I think is far more useful than listed ingredients.
What I loved most about this book, however, is Mr Strybel's courage to present Polish cooking unashamedly as it is - a relatively unknown (he explains why this is so) culinary tradition, which once sampled cannot be forgotten - the kind of home-cooking that will always be chosen and enjoyed far more than any haute cuisine can be because it feeds the soul as well as the body. It's simple and stodgy cuisine, right? Wrong! This prejudice Mr Strybel blows completely out of the water by reminding us that peasant fare mixed with royal culinary tradition gives you dishes such as slow-roasted duck with wild mushrooms and juniper berries - it ain't all cabbage, folks..not that there's anything wrong with cabbage if you know how to cook it.
For the health conscious, on the face of it, Polish cooking is high fat, high everything cooking, but as Mr Strybel points out - well, you'll just have to read what he has to say about all that!
It's been said before but I'll say it again - this is the definitive Babcia's bible! Whether you're Polish or not, you'll be amazed at the breadth and depth of this book - I know I was and I've been cooking Polish food all my life. Thank you Mr Strybel :)
Excellent Book, I keep reading it! A must have for allMay 30, 2009 Diane E. Jezewski A wonderful Cookbook. I have never seen so many variations of dishes. My goodness I have to try that Blueberry Soup! This book will get used often. My husbands all Polish, but his family never cooked with sure variation like in here. I will surely recommend this book for his relatives or anyone. I find that many recipes are similar to the German style cooking that I grew up with. I can't wait to make the Bobka- I never knew there were so many
A must buy book
A comprehensive collection of Polish CookingDecember 8, 2008 Norman Strojny(western desert of Utah) "Polish Heritage Cookery" is a comprehensive collection of Polish cooking.
If you are cooking for a Polish-American family, this book will be a help in finding new dishes as well as a reference for the traditional dishes that people of Polish heritage have in their souls.
I recommend this book for anyone who wants to cook Polish dishes more often than, just, for the major holidays.
A highly respected book for Polish cuisineNovember 2, 2008 Zelie Nic(Pittsburgh) My wife's a Pole, and os I bought this for her despite the fact that I've never had a Polish dish I've liked. But if you thought Polish food was nothing but sausages, cabbage, and mixing nasty fish into your otherwise fine patatoes (as I did) then prepare to expand your definition of what Polish food is all about! There's some really good food in here.
A few people have cited problems with the directions, which are presented in paragraph form without the typical list of ingredients needed followed by a numerically ordered process. You will need to adjust, but the recipes are short and simple. Few recipes are longer than this review that you're reading right now. Just read the recipe first, make sure you have all the items you need. It's not so hard!
I also like how the titles of each dish are in English AND Polish, though I'll never, ever be able to say those strange Eastern European words.
The book is well organized too. The large section concerning the many Polish ways of preparing rabbit however, will probably never be exhausted by most Americans, as few grocers supply the meat.
Polish Heritage CookeryNovember 1, 2008 Stefan Karpiniec(Tasmania) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Did not like set out of book. Would prefer ingredients at the top then the recipe underneath. Hard to find ingredients.
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