Drawing on the culinary archives and expertise of her extensive family and friends, this book is enlivened with personal anecdotes and spiced with a wealth of social customs and folk traditions. It is a cook's treasury of Polish food ancient and modern, organized into soups, salads, meat and game, fish and poultry, pancakes and puddings, cakes and pastries and including sections on Polish festival foods for Easter and Christmas, delicatessen and restaurants and drinks.