the POLSKI blog

As everybody who lives in Britain knows, people in power love increasing taxes on alcohol and cigarettes in a futile attempt to curb drinking and smoking.
Strangely enough, it would seem it worked in Poland. Of all countries.
This dry press release quoting “the Polish spirits industry organization” claims that
Poland registered a 75-percent drop in vodka drinking [...]

Through this blog, of course. Although I do realise my previous few posts on that subject probably only just scratched the surface.
But I’ve just come across a rather impressive selection of Polish places – or venues serving Polish food in some form – on a user review site Qype.
The good thing about it is it [...]

Found in a magazine over the weekend. Exactly what I’ve been telling you all along, just look at the name of the category this was posted in. (OK, there’s not much else in the category yet, but it’s simply because I haven’t been ’sampling’ much recently’…. *ahem*)

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 [...]

When I used to work near Holborn I used to drag my colleagues (or were dragged myself) to a little place, tucked away in a narrow passage just behind Holborn tube station, called Bar Polski. Not for patriotic resons, mind. I just loved their range of vodkas, back then almost totally unknown in Britain – [...]