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Oh yeah my polish grandmother (100 and still kicking!) cooked some. Tastes like spinach and was great. Fun story (semi related) she visited us in the US in 201
by matthewaveryusa 11mo ago
Oh yeah my polish grandmother (100 and still kicking!) cooked some. Tastes like spinach and was great.
Fun story (semi related) she visited us in the US in 2015 and my sister served her kale. She amusingly said: “I haven’t had this since ww2” apparently when food was scarce they grew kale which was easy to grow in Poland and packed with nutrients
- comrade1234 11mo agoYeah it's not as common here (Zurich) as the USA. Also, collard greens just don't seem to exist here.
- proxysna 11mo agoMy family in Belarus used to make a soup with it. Exactly like spinach, maybe more fibery texture.
- hobs 11mo agoYes, my grandmother told me how the "Greek diet" was the one they ate while the Nazis tried to starve them out.
- Tade0 11mo agoFunnily enough around a decade ago or so it was fashionable in some circles in Poland to eat kale and it brought all kinds of ridicule from people questioning the plant's purported benefits. A lot of the more recent examples of Polish cuisine are dishes originally invented out of poverty and made largely out of cheap ingredients and which now took a new form using stuff unheard of at the time because the real recipe is not to contemporary taste. My favourite example of that would be cold cheesecake - originally made largely from cottage cheese, nowadays has mascarpone as the main ingredient. Mascarpone! Hardly anyone knew what mascarpone even was in the 70s.
- red-iron-pine 11mo ago> Mascarpone! Hardly anyone knew what mascarpone even was in the 70s. Behind the Iron Curtain and no trade with the Decadent Bourgeoisie Westerners
- hugh-avherald 11mo ago"I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States but they just don't get the spices right."