How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure

ISBN 978-0-9641168-5-6
$12.95 paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
Pub. Date 2000

Joan & David Peterson

• About the Book
• About the Author
• Praise for Eat Smart in Poland    
• Table of Contents  
• Ordering Information  
• Other EAT SMART Books by Ginkgo Press 

This smartly designed culinary travel guidebook is never out of date. It opens up the world of Polish food to travelers, including students studying abroad, and tells how to find the most delicious, authentic, and adventuresome eating experiences there.

The authors share the secrets they’ve uncovered while hunting for something good to eat—from restaurant dining to home cooking to fresh market produce—to allow you to get to the heart of the culture through its cuisine. The book also includes recipes from some of the finest chefs in Poland.

As you know, food is one of the first and most immediate contacts a traveler makes with a foreign country. Travelers to Poland can make it a more memorable contact by taking along the easy-to-use Eat Smart in Poland, one of the guides in the award-winning EAT SMART series. The authors show that traveling and eating in unfamiliar territory doesn’t have to be gastronomical guesswork.

“Eat Smart in Poland provides a good introduction to the still rather exotic and little-known world of Polish cookery. This stimulating, easy-to-read book presents a lively historical background on Poland, once the biggest country in Europe, and contains what is probably the most extensive Polish culinary lexicon ever published in English. It also includes everthing visitors need to know before they start restaurant hopping in Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk and places in between. An added bonus for culinary do-it-yourselfers is a nice selection of authentic Polish recipes from both sides of the Atlantic.”
—Robert Stybel, author of Polish Heritage Cookery

“Poland is quickly becoming one of the great travel destinations of Europe. I hope everyone who decides to visit Poland will take a copy of Eat Smart in Poland. It picks up where almost every other guidebook about Poland seems to stop. There’s history, a regional food guide, recipes and a guide that would help visitors to Poland make just the right selections from a menu. A keeper.”
—Sophie Hodorowicz Knab, author of Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore

"Must" reading for anyone traveling in Poland
Eat Smart In Poland is "must" reading for anyone traveling in Poland for business or pleasure. The Peterson's provide the reader with a rich historical perspective on the origins and varieties of Polish food; extensive background on regional dishes, and easy-to-use menu guide to help make "surprise-free" selections from restaurant menus; a comprehensive glossary of foods and flavors; Polish phrases for ordering and buying food; handy shopping tips for outdoor food and spice markets;; and recipes to preview the taste of Poland before departure. The informative and engaging text is wonderfully illustrated throughout with "on location" color photography by the Peterson's, and with black-and-white illustrations by Susie Medaris. Eat Smart In Poland is also highly recommended for ethnic cuisine clubs, and armchair traveler kitchen cookbook collections!"
—Midwest Book Review

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Cuisine of Poland
An historical survey of the development of Polish cuisine and the outside influences felt by several millenia of foreign intervention by traders and invaders from many nations.

• Early History 
• The Piast Dynasty (966-1370) 
• The Jagiellonian Dynasty (1382-1572) 
• The Era of Elected Kings (1572-1795) 
• The Partitions (1795-1918) 
• Recent Times (1918-Present 

Regional Polish Food
A quick tour through the Poland to see the diversity of cooking styles encountered in traveling throughout the country.

Polish Food in a Nutshell 
The Regions of Poland
Holiday Foods

Tastes of Poland
A selection of delicious, easy-to-prepare regional and national recipes to try before leaving home.

Shopping in Poland's Food Markets
Tips to increase your savvy in both the exciting outdoor food markets and modern supermarkets.

Resources
A listing of stores carrying hard-to-find Polish foods and of groups that focus on travel to Poland or offer opportunities for person-to-person contact through home visits to gain a deeper understanding of the country, including its cuisine.

• Mail-Order Suppliers of Polish Foods 
• Cooking Schools, Tours and Travel Agencies 
• Some Useful Organizations to Know About 

Helpful Phrases
Questions in Polish, with English translations, which will assist you in finding, ordering and buying foods or ingredients, particularly regional specialties.

• Phrases for Use in Restaurants 
• Phrases for Use in Food Markets 
• Other Useful Phrases 

Menu Guide
An extensive listing of menu entries in Polish, with English translations, to make ordering food an easy and immediately rewarding experience.

Foods and Flavors Guide
A comprehensive glossary of ingredients, kitchen utensils and cooking methods in Polish, with English translations.

Bibliography

Index

Eat Smart in Poland
ISBN 0-9641168-5-5
Paperback
5.5 x 8.5 - 160 Pages
Pub. Date 2000

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