Is it possible to host a vegan Christmas Eve? Absolutely — and it can be fully in line with Polish holiday tradition. Much more so than the Western-inspired habit of serving roasted poultry for Christmas Eve dinner. If we look deeper into history — and also deeper into society — we see a culinary reality that is very different from what … Read more
Once very popular in traditional folk cooking, today these ingredients are truly underappreciated and underused. Various grains, seeds, and nuts — from sunflower seeds to hemp (with their phenomenal protein content), pumpkin seeds, and walnuts. On the one hand, they no longer play the role they once did, when even a hundred years ago, nuts and seeds … Read more
The European Commission wants to ban the use of 29 meat-related names to describe plant-based products.This proposal effectively highlights the contradictions that plague the Commission and the EU as a whole. It comes just after the European Court of Justice blocked a French law that tried to enforce such a ban on a national level.Powerful … Read more
Today, lunch for three people, largely from the leftover ingredients of a 10-day event for 22 people. So there’s always something left, and minimizing food waste is one of my two most important professional challenges for this year. Cooking like this has the advantage that I have more time to experiment with new things, not … Read more
Another soup from the series – I throw everything I have into the pot, season it, and hope it will turn out good. You don’t have to worry too much about the recipe because, as you can see, the proportions mentioned in it are… well, they are what they are. I just threw in whatever … Read more
