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Every now and then there’s a story about the need to recruit someone with good Polish to help the allegedly ever-growing Polish communities in various parts of the UK. You’ve heard of Polish nurses, doctors, etc. Now it’s allegedly time for Polish policemen.
North Wales police has considered recruiting officers from Poland to help deal with [...]

The American director gave his first ever concert in Warsaw on Sunday night. The filmmaker, playing the clarinet, was accompanied by his New Orleans Jazz Band. Three thousand people gave them a standing ovation.
He’d played Budapest the night before. I was surprised to see how many outlets have covered the story online. (OK, it’s a [...]

Don’t you just hate it when you’re beaten at your own game? Looks like Poland has just lost another claim to fame.
According to AFP, Bucharest attempted a new world record a day after Boxing Day,
with a 392-metre (1,286-foot) smoked sausage that took two weeks to prepare and weighs a hefty 150 kilogrammes (330 pounds). About [...]

I’ve made my makówki, I’ve done the fish….. I’ve also worked a bit too much, hence this long gap since my last update. But before I put my feet up and start enjoying Christmas, I just wanted to thank all my readers for being here, for leaving comments and spreading the word!
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Here I was, trying to find time (and inspiration) to write a post on Polish Christmas food, but it looks like yesterday’s thelondonpaper did a relatively good job.
Tom Moggach wrote a piece on how different countries celebrate Christmas from a culinary perspective and included this, rather well-researched, concise, yet informative bit:
Eat: Borscht soup [how many [...]

A couple of weeks ago I gave my old Polish friend Joanna a task – find me some Polish music, but surprise me. (After all she’s still in Poland and knows what’s cool.) No shitty meowing, no boring old fart recycling the same stuff over and over again.
And she came back with this: Oszibarack. Wowzers. [...]

So here’s something for all you fashionistas. A good article in today’s New York Times about Poland’s latest fad – second hand shops:
Thrift stores here have become impromptu laboratories of the changing mores and attitudes in a country adjusting to newfound wealth. Young Poles here in the capital are now confident enough in their ability [...]

This is what happens when I get bored on a rainy Saturday afternoon – I take pics of my own wódka collection. I’m sure there’s a name for this condition.
Anyway, the picture above shows my favourite Polish drink, Żubrówka, aka the bison vodka, aka the grass vodka. The traditional one has a leaf of grass [...]