The phrase ‘to eat locally and seasonally’ has been used by food writers and restauranteurs so many times, it has almost become meaningless. Yet, if we want to eat healthily, sustainably, and ...
What we eat and how we eat contribute to defining us as citizens, as members of a specific social or generational group, as ...
Zamość, often called the 'ideal city', is a remarkable Renaissance settlement founded in 1580 by Jan Zamoyski and designed by ...
We explore the allure and complexities of utopian visions through the lens of reporters who journey to communities striving ...
Writer, novelist, playwright, translator, editor, publisher, educator, social activist. Halloween is fast approaching, so why not discover Polish women horror writers while you scare yourself silly.
Mickiewicz’s efforts to influence the politics and outlook of the Catholic Church in his lifetime came to nothing. He himself ...
Born on 23 July 1949 in Jelenia Góra. In the years 1969-1974 he studied composition under supervision of Piotr Perkowski and Romuald Twardowski at The Higher State School of Music in Warsaw (currently ...
‘Oh, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man!’ Most people know Popeye as a tough, spinach-eating sailor, a cartoon character created by American cartoonist E. C. Segar. But did you know who the real-life ...
There are two official languages in our country: Polish and Kashubian. In addition, we have dialects: Masovian, Lesser Poland dialect, Greater Poland dialect, Silesian, mixed ones in the east of the ...
The decadent and outlandish nobility known as the Polish Sarmatians are often said to have brought down the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth through their mistakes and hubris. The novelist Wojciech ...
Many Polish rappers and their fans have noted links between Polish Romanticism and hip-hop, some going so far as to claim Adam Mickiewicz as the ‘original rapper’. From freestyle battles to ...
A traveller, soldier, conspirator and exile, Beniowski was crowned king of Madagascar and proclaimed the island’s Ampansakebe (Emperor) by its indigenous people. Maurycy August Beniowski considers ...