/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16572328
Your point about the loads of carbs is true. It is a very flour and salt based cuisine that makes people tired and prone to sleeping on couches. However, bigos (hunter's stew) and zurek is very delicious while not overly fatty, and is also very flavorful.

I will also agree that it is also a simple cuisine, unlike French or Italian dishes. Perhaps more research needs to be done to advance the perception of Polish cuisine as being the simple "Kielbasa, Pierogi, Golambki, Bigos, Zurek, Kapusta, Nalesniki, Kotlety" that probably grew out of the last four centuries of poverty, warfare, and national trauma. Perhaps during the prosperous Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth the cooking culture advanced to a point that was lost afterwards, and studying texts from them can help rediscover dishes that will expand and deepen the rather spartan Polish cook book.