'Modern' Polish food at Mount Prospect's Qulinarnia
by Mike Sula
Potatoes didn't arrive in northern Europe for at least a couple centuries after the reign of Jadwiga of Poland, the female monarch (technically a king) largely held responsible for spicing up her court's royal cuisine with exotica from her father's native Hungary. As for most of her subjects in the Middle Ages, it was a lot of groats until the Andean tuber arrived in the late 18th century and took hold with a tenacity that persists today.…[ Read more ]