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  • We spend about 300zł (€75) a week on food. We consume plain food. We don't buy any beverages or any industrial and processed food. We like to buy eggs from the village and freshly dug vegetables from the market .We buy all of our vegetables from the farmer's market but for big quantities we shop from the farmers in the village. When our kids were young we used to buy milk from the village but now there are no cows left in the village. We always eat at home. Once or twice a year we buy ready-made food and once a year on “our day” we go to a restaurant. Maria cooks in the house. She learned many things from her mother but when she got married she improved by reading cookery books. Now she knows by heart 32 different recipes for soups. Food should be made and eaten when it is still hot, not to stay for some days. We like simple meals with plain taste not so refined. We like Polish tastes. Variety is very important in our food, not to cook and eat the same food all the time. During our meals we read the newspaper and we discuss about the news.  Back in the old days we use to eat more fat food, more kluśki more pierogi. Now we eat more vegetables and more fruits that weren't available in Poland  in the past. I remember when we were kids we used to eat bread with sugar and that was a real delicacy, our kids didn't even want to hear about it.
    Polish Family #21
  • The food costs 5zł (€1.25) per person and we are open from Monday to Friday. So in a week we spend 1750zł (€437.5) on food. A catering company brings the food to us. The catering is run by an NGO for people with disabilities. From Monday to Friday we have lunch together, put people also make their own sandwiches for branch and sometimes make cakes here too. Good food and good humor makes a good meal. It is important for old people not to sit at home alone but to come here socialise and have company. Eating brings people in this place and brings them together. If it wasn’t for the lunch less people would come here and they would spend less time. Also people are coming here because the food costs less in here than to prepare it at home.  People who come here are very active, they learn computers, English they have massage they organise excursions etc. The food is the same throughout the year. The meal has to follow the norm set by the food institute of the ministry of Health. There has to be a certain amount of nutrition and a certain balance of ingredients.
    Polish Family # 17
  • Helena and Leszek spend about 250 Zloty (EUR60) a week on food. We buy good quality food we care very much about it. We don't shop in Tesco or other hypermarkets because the food there tastes of plastic. In those hypermarkets there are potatoes from Israel, carrots from Turkey etc but few Polish products. Poland is the biggest producer of apples in the EU but in the hypermarkets you only find apples from Holland. We buy our meat from a butcher and our bread from a bakery. Once a week we go to a supermarket in Pulawy to do a big shopping. In the spring and the summer we buy fruits and vegetables from neighbouring farms but in winter there are only potatoes for sale. <br />
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There are no restaurants in our village we only cook and eat at home. We cook only traditional food with local products. We like Polish cuisine not sushi or frutti di mare. Many young Poles are influenced by the TV and the magazines so they eat "fashionable" foreign food. Helena cooks and sometimes when Anita is at home she helps too. When the kids were young and Helena was working Leszek was doing the cooking. Helena learned to cook form her parents but she tries to do new things and experiment on Polish cuisine. In the winter we eat more soups and more meat. There are few vegetables growing naturally in winter so we eat kompot (Polish fruit stew) instead. In the summer we like light soups - milk soups with tomato, paprika, cucumber, berries, etc. We try to keep the tradition. We pass to our kids what we inherited from our parents.
    Polish Family # 11 - set
  • It is hard to say how much money we spend on food. Sometimes more sometimes less; let's say around 300 Zloty (EUR75) a week. We care about the food we buy. Quality is very important, our older son who is managing restaurants convince us about the importance of good quality food. We do half of our shopping in supermarkets and half in local shops. But we also make our own food like sauerkraut and other things. <br />
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We mostly cook and eat at home together it is a habit for us, it's something normal. We have been eating together for the past 45 years. Janina cooks most of the meals. Piotr makes the breakfast everyday and he makes some special meals - cabbage soup and others. We learned how to cook from our parents. The joy of eating makes a good meal. Piotr celebrates food it is important for him and he wants to be satisfied after the meal.  Sometimes we go to a restaurant but we never buy ready made meals. Three times a year our sons visit us and then we eat all together, those are the most important meals for us. We feel internal satisfaction when the kids are around.
    Polish Family # 08 - set
  • We spend about 250zł (€62.5) a week for food and beer. At the end of the month when we run out of money we get food from our parents. Everybody is buying for himself but not always the cheapest food. Mostly we do our shopping in the local shop. Sometimes we go to TESCO to buy crisps they are the best ones and the cheapest ones too.<br />
Sometimes we cook, sometimes we buy ready made meals and other times we eat at the university or get food from our parents. We also eat in a fast food restaurant – a Polish version of MacDonald’s or we go to a Vietnamese restaurant. Usually the beginning of the month when we have money we go out and towards the end of the month we eat at home.
    Polish Family # 12 - set
  • Elzbieta and Jacek spend about 200 Zloty (EUR50) a week for food. We care about the food we buy. We buy healthy food but we believe that labels on food - organic, POP, etc - are more of a marketing thing than real quality assurance. We have a plot 10Km outside the town where in the summer we cultivate vegetables, herbs and fruits for our own consumption. We make preserves, pickles and we put herbs in salt for the winter. We keep all that in the basement. Our basement looks like a store. Mainly we shop in the local shops and in farmer's market. Rarely we go to supermarkets. Ania remembers that when she was a kid, 20 years ago, they weren't many sweets or vegetables in Poland. It was a hard time, people couldn't find meat and everybody had ration cards. <br />
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We cook and we eat together everyday. We only go to restaurants on special occasions.  We are busy during the day so over the dinner we have the opportunity to talk about everything, good things, our problems, to enjoy each other and have a good time. <br />
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We all cook, we learned from our parents. A good meal depends on the products, if they are fresh or not. Healthy, fresh, natural products from the farmer's market make a good meal.  In the summer we eat more vegetables and fruits. We like tomatoes very much; we could eat 1Kg of tomatoes a day.  Also in the summer we don't eat soups but only salads.
    Polish Family # 10 - set
  • On an average week we spend 200 zloty (EUR 50). We care very much about the food we buy. We buy only organic food, except eggs that we buy form a village nearby. Both our parents are farmers so we try to get as much food as possible from them and we try to find local products. We buy our meat from the same butcher and bread from the local bakery. Sometimes we have to go to supermarkets but usually for cleaning agents, etc.<br />
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We cook every day and eat home. The family dinner is a holly moment for us. We joke, we talk, we discuss about current affairs, talk about art and culture. We try to eat the 3 of us together. But that depends on Marcin's work. January is the break period so we eat together everyday, but when he is on a shooting he might be away for 2-3 days. Both of us cook and sometimes we cook together. We learned from our families but we improve our cooking skills when we were students. Joanna was working in a restaurant in the UK so she developed her cooking further. We eat Polish food but other cuisines too, we like fusion. In the summer we eat more vegetables. We love tomatoes; we can eat tomatoes all day. Last summer we were in the Sudetes mountains, a farmer gave us local tomato seeds we plant them in a plot in the countryside.
    Polish Family # 02 - set
  • We spend about 250 to 300 zloty (EUR60 to EUR75) per 10 days for food. We don't like to buy our vegetables from supermarkets, we prefer small shops or the farmer's market. We do not believe in organic products. In the supermarkets we buy all the cleaning stuff, tins and processed food. We buy meat always from the same butcher, also bread from the same bakery.  <br />
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We eat everyday together and most of the time we cook at home, rarely we order a pizza or a sushi or we go to a restaurant. Good company makes a good meal. We sit together, drink some wine, fight with the kid - she wants everything- talk about everyday things, gossip. Often we invite our parents to dinner with us and our house is open to friends. Konrad does the cooking and Ania is the assistant, but Ania always makes the desserts. Konrad is self-taught, when he was a student he was working in a restaurant in the USA, he likes trying new recipes. He enjoys making pizzas. Our food is a little bit different over the seasons. We don't buy tomatoes in the winter and we don't like cabbage and fat food in the summer.
    Polish Family # 03 - set
  • I spend about 100zł (€25) a week on food. I want the food that I buy to be fresh and without dirty kilometres, I don’t buy products that coming from the other side of the planet. I buy local products without E’s. Also I like to grow my own herbs in my flat. I go mainly on the local shops for my everyday shopping. For special things like Parmesan, olives etc I go to Carrefour. I cook at home, I got to bar mleczny – (milky bars), sometimes I eat at Kombinator - it depends. Here in Nowa Huta there is a grocery run by old ladies who sell readymade meals I buy from them sometimes too. I cook and I like to experiment a lot. <br />
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You eat by the eyes – so a good meal is the one that looks good. You need time for a good meal, a way to serve it and nice atmosphere. A dinner with plastic plates is not a good one if you put candles on the table you make a difference.  In the summer I eat light food. Vegetables are cheaper in the summer and I use them a lot. I like strawberries but I don’t buy them in the winter. I remember when I was kid on holidays and I had to eat dishes that I didn’t like I was hiding them.
    Polish Family #20
  • We don't know how much we spend on food, we don't consider counting it, but most probably 300 Zloty (EUR75) a week. We care about the quality of the food we buy; we only buy something that we know that is good. We shop in small shops and medium size supermarkets, we never go to hypermarkets and we avoid discount stores. We buy all of our vegetables from the local farmer's market and meat from the meat market in town.  We also make our own pickles, preserves, sauerkraut, jam etc. For those we buy the ingredients directly from farmers. During winter we eat more sauerkraut but in the summer we prefer fresh vegetables. We don't fully trust fresh vegetables in the winter like tomatoes and cucumber. During communism we used to grow our own vegetables in our garden and we had a little plot outside the town where we were growing potatoes. <br />
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We don't like the taste of readymade food so we prefer to cook at home. Also this is cheaper. We eat together everyday when Halina comes back from work at 15:00. Halina does most of the cooking but sometimes our son Pawe? cooks too. We are self made cooks, we didn't learned from anyone we just like to experiment. For Halina quality makes a good meal, for Eugeniusz quantity but we both agree that a well spiced meal is a good meal.
    Polish Family # 09 - set
  • I spend 200-300 Zloty  (EUR50 - EUR75) per week for food. I care about the food I buy. I buy organic eggs, organic honey, organic bread. Usually I shop in LIDL, it is nearby my home and it is good. Bread I buy from a bakery - it is expensive but good. Once or twice a month I go to a big supermarket to do my big shopping.<br />
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Nine out of ten times I cook at home. When my son stays at home we eat together - that happens 3-4 times a week. When he sleeps home we have breakfast together. It is important for me to eat with my son. We talk about things and if he wants he answers.<br />
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I do all the cooking, my son doesn't help, I am self-taught and I read cookery books too. My food varies by season. I don't eat tomatoes in the winter. I try to buy Polish products. I cannot find Polish oranges but everything else is Polish. Good products make a good meal. A little fantasy too, helps.
    Polish Family # 04 - set
  • We spend 400zł (€100) a week on food. Mateusz is a vegetarian so in our family we have to make 2 dinners everyday and we have our dog Agat – a 15 year old Hungarian puli dog that prefers beef. We care about the quality of the food we buy but we are not sure. You buy an apple but you have no idea how it was produced. We buy natural products, sometimes we prefer to buy less quantity but better quality. Mateusz likes pasta, cheese and fish but good cheese and fish are expensive. In the summer we buy fruits and vegetables from farmers and we make preserves, jams, pickles etc Now that Iwona works only 3 days a week we shop in small local shops. Sometimes we go to Kaufland, we like the fruits there, big selection and they are cheap. Sometimes we go to Carrefour or Real too. Sometimes when we in a hurry we shop in the corner shop. For big quantities we go to the farmer’s market.<br />
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 Usually we eat at home but on special occasions we go to a restaurant. Rarely we buy a ready-made meal and when we do it has to be of a known maker. Iwona does all of the cooking but sometimes Antoni buys the products and prepares them so Iwona can cook. Iwona learned to cook from her mother but she has a big selection of cookery books that she taking recipes from. Sometimes Mateusz cooks his own meals. In the last 2 years, since Mateusz became vegetarian, our diet has changed a lot. We eat more beans, more fish, vegetables and fruits. We rarely eat pork and we avoid fat food. We prefer poultry. In the summer we eat more season vegetables.
    Polish Family # 16
  • We care about the food we buy, we try to have a balance between quality and price and also buy Polish products. In the winter our food is more heavy and in summer lighter. On an average week we spend 500zł (€125) on food. We buy our vegetables from the farmer’s market. When we want big quantities of meat, Robert buys from his company but for smaller quantities we buy from the local butcher. <br />
We cook at home everyday but because we are coming home at different times it is difficult to eat together on weekdays. Once a month we go to a restaurant. Agnieszka does the cooking, she learned how to cook from her grandmother. Sometimes the girls help in the kitchen too. From May to September we have BBQ once a week and then Robert is the boss. Fresh products of high quality and good meat make a good meal for us.
    Polish Family # 13
  • Rafal 35,  Ania 29,  Tomek 3½,  Elzbieta 59,  Jacek 61<br />
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Lublin, average income, higher education <br />
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Elzbieta is a pensioner. She used to work as a food engineer in a frozen food factory and now she is a coordinator in the multigenerational club for volunteers in Lublin. <br />
Jacek is a pensioner too. He was a food engineer, director of a milk company.<br />
Ania is an academic teacher in the economy and management faculty of the agricultural university of Lublin and she does a research on the dairy industry in Lubelski region. <br />
Rafal is a prosecutor. <br />
Tomek goes to kindergarten. <br />
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Almost every second Sunday Rafal, Ania and Tomek come for the Sunday lunch. The Sunday lunch with all the family is very important for us because we are all together and we celebrate that with a delicious meal. We all work hard during the week, me and my husband on the charity and our kids on their jobs, so on Sunday we can relax, we have fun, we spend time together and we chat to our lovely grandson. The atmosphere is special. On Christmas and other holidays all the family eats together; we have a big party.
    Polish Family # 10 - portrait
  • Zdzislaw, Ewa and Hildegarda spend 200 Zloty (EUR40) a week on food, Grzegorz who lives in Warsaw spends the same amount of money. Zdzislaw, Ewa and Hildegarda do not buy organic products but they don't buy low quality food either. They try to keep a balance between quality and price. They don't use fat but olive oil instead and they eat loads of salads. Everyday at lunchtime they have a glass of carrot and apple juice. They mostly shop at supermarkets except the meat that they buy from a local butcher. They eat at home, sometimes go to a restaurant but never buy a ready-made meal. The dinner is an opportunity to discuss what happened during the day, what happened at Zdzislaw's work, how was Ewa's day if Hildegarda had any problems and wondering what Grzegorz is doing in Warsaw.<br />
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Grzegorz tries to buy good and natural food but because he works a lot sometimes he has to have lunch in a restaurant. He never steps in a supermarket; he only shops in the local bazaar. He cooks  at home from time to time but usually he eats at restaurants. <br />
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Zdzislaw, Ewa and Hildegarda eat together everyday and Grzegorz joins them when for Christmas and whenever he is in town. Ewa does the cooking. She is self-taught, he reads cookery books, recipes in magazines and gets recipes from friends too. The side dishes vary by season. We have more salads and a bigger variety of vegetables and fruits.
    Polish Family # 06 - set
  • The dinner table of Saturday 6 March  2010 at 16:57<br />
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For today's dinner we bought everything at the deli market. Our kids are not big funs of fish so this is not a food that we cook very often. Our favourite food is a very plain dish, pasta with tomatoes. Oleg prefers rare beef stakes.
    Polish Family #22 - dinner table
  • We spend around 70zł (€17.5) a week on food. We try to keep a balance between price and quality. On holidays we buy the best quality but on normal days we try to keep it cheap. Price is important for us. We shop in Carrefour and Selgros hypermarkets where you can buy bigger amounts but cheaper. We go there by car. We cook all the time, we make our own food. Today because we didn’t have time we bought this readymade Silesian potato dumplings (Kluski śląskie) there were good but we won’t by them again. Danuta cooks, she learned from mother but she learned many recipes from the neighbours too. In the old days when our kids were young the three families living in this floor were making cakes every Sunday and we were exchanging them. It was really nice for the kids.
    Polish Family # 19
  • We spend 300zł (€75) a week on food for the three of us. We care about the quality of the food we buy but also a main criteria is price. The best is to do a compromise. We do the small everyday shopping in the local shop and once a week a big shopping in the supermarket. We only eat at home, we don't go to restaurants or buy ready made meals. Teresa cooks and she is self-taught.
    Polish Family # 14 - set
  • Robert 43, Agnieszka 42, Magdalena 21, Ewelina 20<br />
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Wołomin, Poland average income, higher education<br />
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Robert is a businessman in the food industry and a writer. <br />
Agnieszka takes care of the house.<br />
Magdalena and Ewelina are students. <br />
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Every weekend we eat together. The Sunday lunch is the biggest lunch for us. When we have guests or our family is visiting us we eat together on a big table with loads of food. The family dinner is a chance to meet and a cure for hunger. There are some dishes in our family based on cucumber and potatoes that nobody else has, like a family tradition
    Polish Family # 13 - portrait
  • I spend 100 Zloty(EUR20) or less per week for food. I care about what i eat, I am a vegetarian.  I wish I could stay vegan but it is very difficult because sometimes I have to buy what is available. I don't buy any organic food, it's too expensive and there are no organic shops in the area. I shop in the market and in local shops. I don't like supermarkets. They are too loud and big for me. <br />
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When I am in Warsaw during the week I eat only  at home. On weekends when I go to the school of fine arts in Radom I eat there. <br />
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Now that the kids away we eat all together every week or every two weeks, it depends. I enjoy the family dinner. It is nice, it is my first time that I live alone without my children so now every time we eat together is like holidays. <br />
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I cook for 30 years but i still like learning new recipes. Cooking is like art  so I like experiment. For me a good salad makes a good meal, with spices and never mind what else. We eat more fruits in the summer. I like to buy strawberries and eat them all day.
    Polish Family # 05 - set
  • Right now I spend about 20zł (€4)  a week on food because I am on diet, but usually I spend loads of money on food and that’s why I am on diet now. I am trying to buy organic products but they are very expensive and I cannot find them everywhere. Probably on everyday quick shopping I don’t put too much attention on what I buy, but when I cook for a special case I care very much. Mainly I shop on local shops and rarely in Hypermarkets. Because of my job I am always on the run so I eat when I am hungry. I rarely eat at home, but when I do always cook  never buy readymade meals and never order a pizza. When I cook I get most of my recipes from the internet and sometimes from cookery books. Also I get some traditional recipes from my mother and grandmother. Sometimes I just experiment.
    Polish Family # 18
  • We spend about 400 Zloty to 500 Zloty  (EUR100-EUR125) a week on food. We have all the supermarkets close to our flat. Once a week we go for a big shopping but when Kamilla brings the kids from school she buys few things. When the big multinational supermarkets opened in the area all the small shops went bankrupt, they couldn't compete on the prices. We are looking for a balance between quality and price in the food we buy. Sometimes the cheapest things aren't the best buys. We care about the eggs so we buy them form a local farmer. Also Kinga cannot drink the milk from the supermarket so we get that from a farmer. <br />
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We always cook and eat at home, the only exception is when we buy a ready made "Flaki" a traditional Polish meat stew. Everyday the four of us eat together.  The family dinner is a celebration for us. We sit all together and we talk to the kids but we don't talk during eating, only afterwards. We know that we had a good meal when we feel full. Also we have to bear in mind what the kids like, we don't cook meals that the kids don't like. We eat when Tomek comes back from work and Kinga from school. Kamilla cooks the meals; she learned how to cook from her family. When Kamilla was in the hospital to give birth to Katarzyna Tomasz was cooking spaghetti everyday and Kinga liked that a lot. Our son Lukasz comes back from work at 11 and he is tired, his mother sleeps so he orders Pizza and beer. That is his diet.
    Polish Family # 07 - set
  • We spend 800zł to 1000zł (€200-€250) a week on food. We prefer to taste a product and if it is acceptable we buy it again. We found good ham in the local shop so we buy ham only from there.  Certain things that we buy are Polish and often we try tasty things from around the word. We know the real taste of feta cheese so only buy Greek feta. Once a month we buy mega packs from Makro. We buy fresh products from a deli supermarket. We shop in different places for different things. Mainly we eat at home, from time to time we might go to a restaurant. <br />
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Because of our jobs we could work from home, so the person that is at home usually cooks. Michał  learned how to cook from his family and Eleni from cookery books. She is more experimental so we are always nervous of what we are going to have. During winter we eat a lot of meat and pasta, in the summer more vegetables. Our favourite summer dish is grilled aubergines and peppers with balsamic vinegar. We rarely eat soups, they might be tasty but there are time consuming. The mood of the family dinner depends on the day. Every dinner has its own colour. Eleni remembers that during communism the majority of the houses didn't have normal tables because most of the flats were too small, so people were eating on coffee tables. Dinner tables came back to Poland after 1989 and that changed the culture of eating.
    Polish Family #22
  • Agata 24<br />
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Nowa Huta, Kraków, Poland  average income, high education <br />
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Agata works in a bank<br />
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Once or twice a month I visit my parents who live 20km outside Kraków. This is the best meal for me – big and tasty. Three generations eating together is the perfect thing for me. Sunday lunch is that moment when my family sits together by the table, no TV, no radio just eating and talking. Good atmosphere, good food and people that like it make a good meal.
    Polish Family # 18 - portrait
  • The dinner table of Sunday, 21 February 2010 at 18:06<br />
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Today’s meal is one of our favourites, we make it twice a month. We like this soup very much too. In general we like sweet food, like pierogi with strawberries and sour-cream. For today’s meal we bought the meat from a local butcher, the buckwheat, the rice and the vegetables from a small shop. Nothing is from a Hypermarket.
    Polish Family # 16 - dinner table
  • Marek 27, Teresa 52, Robert 49 - he was at work<br />
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Stary Rembertów, Warsaw, Poland  average income, medium education <br />
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Marek is an IT student and Teresa a housewife.  <br />
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Four times a week we eat together. A good meal depends on the taste of the cook. During the family dinner we have a nice, warm atmosphere and a better contact between us. Our food varies by our mood. Our cuisine is changing depending on the situation but not on the season. The Sunday lunch is important because we eat all together. Teresa remembers that when she was a kid the meals in her family where of traditional Polish cuisine.
    Polish Family # 14 - portrait
  • The dinner table of Wednesday 3 February 2010 at 20:30<br />
Everybody except Mateusz 22 likes pierogi. For Mateusz 22 pierogi are boring- you cannot eat the same food everyday. Pierogi and pickled cucumbers came from Anita’s mother. Cheetos from the local shop- not our favourite ones, our favourites are from TESCO
    Polish Family # 12- dinner table
  • Leszek 53, Helena 50, Anita 22<br />
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Janowice, Województwo Lubelskie, Poland<br />
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Helena is a manager and chef in a restaurant in Janowiec<br />
Leszek is a security guard<br />
Anita is a student of journalism in Lublin<br />
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Helena and Leszek eat everyday together when Leszek comes back from work. When we have a big smile in our faces after our meal we know that we had a good one. Anita and Lukasz visiting their parents twice a month and when they are at home we have big lunch together. When all of us are together we spend all day by the table. We have breakfast and then lunch. Food brings the family together. We talk for hours, drink tea and stay until late. In the summer we eat in the garden; after Sunday lunch we like to go for a walk in the fields.
    Polish Family # 11 - portrait
  • The dinner table of Tuesday 19 January at 20:00<br />
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This is the second or third time I cook this food. I bought the meat from TESCO on Saturday. I had an appointment with a customer nearby and after I finished I walked into TESCO. It cost me 35 Zloty (EUR9)
    Polish Family # 04 - dinner table
  • Danuta 65, Władysław 65<br />
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Nowa Huta, Kraków, Poland  low income, higher education <br />
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Both we are pensioners now. Danuta used to work as an accountant in Kraków and Władysław was an engineer in a building company. <br />
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We eat together everyday it is our routine. Sometimes our son comes after work here for some food. When we were working we were coming home different times so we couldn’t eat together. Probably the most important thing for a good meal is to give satisfaction to the people you cook for. On Sundays when we have our children around is a big celebration we spend more time on the table. We have a plot and in the summer we go there very often and we have BBQ’s. In the plot we cultivate flowers, beans, onions, tomatoes, cucumbers etc. we spend all day there, it’s beautiful. In the old days the factories owned those plots and giving them for free to the workers. Now we have to pay a small rent but it is worth it.
    Polish Family # 19 - portrait
  • The dinner table of  Saturday 6 February 2010 at 14:45<br />
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The turkey we had today is our favourite meal, we cook it very often and everybody likes it. The pork with plum is a more special food that we do it less regularly. For today’s meal we bought the meat from the butcher, the vegetables from the farmer’s market and the other ingredients from the supermarket. It cost 70zł to 100zł (€17.50 to €25)
    Polish Family # 13 - dinner table
  • We live in this house for 25 years. We needed some space for our 5 children when they where young. Also it was important to us to have a house with a garden where we could cultivate vegetables for the kids. Before we moved here we were living in a 18m2, two bedroom flat. When we were sleeping at night we were covering the whole floor.
    Polish Family #21 - house
  • Jacek 28<br />
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Nowa Huta, Kraków, Poland  average income, higher education <br />
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Jacek is a co-owner of the bar Klub Kombinator in Nowa Huta <br />
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On Sundays I go to my grandparents. Sunday lunch is very important to me because I meet with my family. I tell them how was my week and I listen to them. On the rest of the days, sometimes I eat with friends or with people in Kombinator. The first meal I had in this flat was a theme dinner with friends, when everybody had the role of a celebrity -  Kasia was Madonna, Andrzej was the Pope and so on.
    Polish Family #20 - portrait
  • The dinner table of Wednesday, 24 February 2010 at 17:41<br />
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The meal today is not my favourite but it was good. Actually it was the first time I did it. Sushi is my favourite dish probably because I cannot make it and because it’s so exotic. I bought all the ingredients for today’s meal on the local shop on the corner. It cost me 10zł (€2.50)
    Polish Family #20 - dinner table
  • Boiled carrots <br />
Serves 3<br />
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Ingredients: 	3 carrots <br />
1 tablespoons sugar<br />
pinch of salt <br />
pinch of pepper <br />
1 full tablespoon flour<br />
1 full tablespoon butter <br />
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Preparation :<br />
1.	Cut the carrots in small cubes <br />
2.	Add a pinch of salt and pepper and a tablespoon of sugar <br />
3.	Put them in a saucepan, cover with water and boil in medium heat for 30mins<br />
4.	Put the carrots in a bowl<br />
5.	In a pan fry the butter with the flour and add it to the carrots
    Polish Family # 11 - dish
  • The dinner table of Sunday 17 January 2010 at 16:00<br />
The chicken salad is our favorite meal, we make it once a week. We bought the chicken from the butcher, the salad from the market, the peaches and everything else from the supermarket. The whole meal cost about 70 zloty (EUR18)
    Polish Family # 03 - dinner table
  • A wondering greengrocer selling vegetables and fruits from the back of his pick up track parked in a street in Pyrgi, Chios. In the background a typical local house with the decorative motives in the facade- Xysta or sgraffito.<br />
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Pyrgi in Chios is known as the "painted village" on account of the decoration of the houses. The village still keeps its medieval style and together with the other Mastichochoria (Mastic Villages) are in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO
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  • Tomatoes hung to dry on a wall of an old house in the village of Pyrgi in Chios, Greece. <br />
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Pyrgi in Chios is known as the "painted village" on account of the decoration of the houses. The village still keeps its medieval style and together with the other Mastichochoria (Mastic Villages) are in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO
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  • Tomatoes hung to dry on a wall of an old house in the village of Pyrgi in Chios, Greece. <br />
<br />
Pyrgi in Chios is known as the "painted village" on account of the decoration of the houses. The village still keeps its medieval style and together with the other Mastichochoria (Mastic Villages) are in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO
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  • House covered with xysta (sgraffito) decorative motives in the village of Pyrgi, Mastichochoria of Chios. <br />
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Pyrgi in Chios is known as the "painted village" on account of the decoration of the houses. The village still keeps its medieval style and together with the other Mastichochoria (Mastic Villages) are in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO
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  • Tomatoes hung to dry on a wall of an old house in the village of Mesta in Chios, Greece.
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  • Tomatoes hung to dry on a wall of an old house in the village of Mesta in Chios, Greece.
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  • Tomatoes hung to dry on a wall of an old house in the village of Mesta in Chios, Greece.
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  • Tomatoes hung to dry on a wall of an old house in the village of Mesta in Chios, Greece.
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  • Salad <br />
Serves 5<br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	<br />
For the salad: 		A bag of ready mix salad from the supermarket with radicchio, corn salad and endive <br />
			1 ball of mozzarella <br />
			½ kg cherie tomatoes <br />
			10 gr sun dried tomatoes in oil <br />
For the dressing: 		3 tablespoons of French mustard with seeds <br />
			1 tablespoon honey<br />
			1 up of olive oil<br />
			2 cloves of garlic<br />
			1 cup of water<br />
			few drops of lemon juice<br />
			1 teaspoon thyme <br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Add the ingredients for the salad in a big bowl and mix <br />
2.	Mix very well the ingredients of the dressing in a mixer <br />
3.	Serve separately, everybody puts as much dressing as he/she wants
    Polish Family #22 - Salad
  • Eleni 42,  Michał 45, Natalia 20, Jan 16, Aleksander 11<br />
<br />
Borówiec, Poznań county, Poland    higher income, higher education <br />
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Michał is a publisher and member of the local council<br />
Eleni is working as a trainer<br />
Natalia is a student <br />
Jan and Aleksander are going to school<br />
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We eat together everyday. We have breakfast together, then the kids eat something light at school and when we are all back at 4-5 in the afternoon we have dinner. One of the things that happening during the family meals is that Michał is trying to teach the boys savoir-vivre.
    Polish Family #22 - portrait
  • Maria 58, Andrzej 61<br />
<br />
Golęczewo, Poznań county, Poland    average income, higher education <br />
<br />
Maria is a pensioner. She was a journalist but now she is freelancing. <br />
Andrzej is an academic in the polytechnic school of Poznań (Poznań University of Technology)
    Polish Family #21 - portrait
  • Barszcz – Polish Borscht<br />
Serves 4<br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	5 beetroots<br />
	1bay leaf<br />
	25gr sausage <br />
	Juice from sour cucumbers (Ogórki kiszone) <br />
	Smetana to taste <br />
	2 drops maggi<br />
	½ onion<br />
	butter <br />
	3 potatoes <br />
	salt and pepper to taste<br />
 <br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Peel the beetroots the onion and the potatoes<br />
2.	Add in a saucepan the beetroots, the sausage and the bay leaf<br />
3.	Bring to boil and then simmer for 30mins<br />
4.	In a separate pot boil the potatoes until soft<br />
5.	Finely chop the onion<br />
6.	In a frying pan fry the onion with butter until brown <br />
7.	Slice the beetroots add the juice from the cucumbers, smetana and the onion<br />
8.	Serve with hot potatoes
    Polish Family #21 - Barszcz
  • The dinner table of Thursday 25 February 2010 at 15:13<br />
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We bought the beetroots and sauerkraut from the producer in farmer's market, potatoes from our neighbour and the meat from a butcher in a little village nearby. It cost us 20zł.
    Polish Family #21 - dinner table
  • I moved to that flat 6 months ago. For me Nowa Huta is a very important place. I was born here, I have my friends here and I have many memories and emotions. Also the history of this place is of a great significance to me.
    Polish Family #20 - house
  • Schabowy kotlet – Pork cutlets <br />
Serves 1<br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	100gr of pork in two slices <br />
3 cups of cornflakes <br />
1 egg <br />
pinch of salt <br />
pinch of pepper <br />
1 banana <br />
1 orange<br />
1 teaspoon honey<br />
1 teaspoon soya sauce <br />
1 tin – 500gr pineapple<br />
1 tablespoon walnut preserve  <br />
3 tablespoons of extra virgin oil <br />
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<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Crumble the cornflakes <br />
2.	Mix the egg with the pineapple juice from the tin <br />
3.	Put the meat in the egg <br />
4.	Spread ½ teaspoon of honey on each slice of pork <br />
5.	Bread the meat with the cornflakes and add 3-4 drops of soya sauce <br />
6.	Cut the pineapple, the orange and the banana in small pieces and mix them with the walnut sauce <br />
7.	Heat the oil in a fry pan and fry the cutlets for 7mins <br />
8.	When the cutlets are done reduce the heat, add the fruit and simmer for 2-3mins <br />
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Rice <br />
Serves 1 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	1 sac of parboiled rice <br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Put the sac in saucepan with plenty of boiling water <br />
2.	Boil for 18mins
    Polish Family #20 - Schabowy kotlet ..lets
  • Vegetables with buckwheat <br />
Serves 1 for 2 days  <br />
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Ingredients: 	½ bag frozen Chinese vegetables<br />
½ bag frozen mixed vegetables<br />
1 garlic clove<br />
¼ teaspoon oregano<br />
½ teaspoon Vegeta<br />
1 tablespoon spicy olive oil with chili <br />
1 tablespoon butter<br />
1 sac parboiled buckwheat<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
	1.	Put the olive oil in a pan and fry the vegetables in medium fire for 15mins<br />
	2.	In a saucepan boil the buckwheat for 20mins<br />
	3.	Add the buckwheat on the pan with the vegetables <br />
	4.	Add the garlic and the herbs fry for little and serve
    Polish Family # 18 - Vegetables with..heat
  • The dinner table of Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 19:01 <br />
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No this isn’t my favourite meal. I like it a lot but I like many other things too. I like cheese, carbonara with cheese, sausages, pork, bacon, tuna, fish with garlic, corn, potatoes, popcorn – I love popcorn- cream soup, cauliflower, spinach, pierogi- all kind of pierogi. I really like loads of stuff. I had everything in my freezer and the cupboard. I think I bought them from the local store. It cost me 15zł (€3.75)
    Polish Family # 18 - dinner table
  • We moved in that flat 33 years ago. It is very comfortable place, close to everything. Shops are around and the hospital too.
    Polish Family # 19 - house
  • The dinner table of Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 15:47<br />
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This meal today wasn’t our favourite. It was just a quick meal. We made the pickled peppers ourselves in the summer. The fish fillet and the frozen dumplings we bought from Carrefour. This whole meal cost us 5zł (€1.25)
    Polish Family # 19 - dinner table
  • Silesian potato dumplings - Kluski śląskie<br />
Serves 2 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	1 bag of frozen Silesian potato dumplings <br />
		2 tablespoons lard <br />
		1 small onion<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Put the dumplings in a saucepan with boiling water <br />
2.	When they come to the surface reduce heat and simmer for 10mins<br />
3.	Strain the dumplings <br />
4.	Cut the lard and the onion into small cubes and fry them<br />
5.	Put the lard and the fried onion over the dumplings and serve<br />
<br />
Fish cutlet – Ryba Smażona<br />
Serves 2 for 3 days <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	1 glass of flour<br />
1 glass of bread crumbs <br />
6 fish fillets (Panga) <br />
I tablespoon of ready-mix fish spices<br />
1 egg<br />
vegetable oil<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Sprinkle the spices on the fish fillets<br />
2.	Flour the fillet, then put them on the egg and them crumb them<br />
3.	Place enough vegetable oil on a pan to cover the fillets<br />
4.	Fry the fish for 10mins and turn occasionally <br />
<br />
Red pepper pickle<br />
Serves 2 for months  <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	4kg red bell peppers<br />
2Kg onions glass of bread crumbs <br />
½litre vinegar  <br />
90gr salt<br />
300gr sugar<br />
1½litre water<br />
4-5 bay leafs  <br />
10-15 grains allspice <br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Cut the peppers and take out the seeds<br />
2.	Slice them and salt them<br />
3.	Then slice the onions and salt them <br />
4.	Put them on separate bowls and leave them for 12hrs<br />
5.	Then squeeze them so the juices will come out<br />
6.	In a large saucepan boil water with vinegar and the other ingredients<br />
7.	When the water boils add the peppers and the onion<br />
8.	Boil them in high fire for 10-15mins <br />
9.	Then put them hot in jars and close the lid immediately to create vacuum <br />
10.	Store them and use them in the winter
    Polish Family # 19 - Kluski śląskie ..żona
  • Beef with gravy<br />
Serves 70 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	9 Kg beef without bones<br />
2 Kg onions<br />
1 Kg lard<br />
2 tablespoons salt<br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Cut the meat and lard into small pieces <br />
2.	Boil for 10mins<br />
3.	Add the onions <br />
4. 	Simmer for 1 hour<br />
<br />
<br />
Side dish beetroot with horseradish <br />
Serves 70 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	14 Kg beetroots <br />
2 Kg horseradish <br />
sugar <br />
salt <br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Boil the beetroots until soft <br />
2.	Grind the beetroots, the horseradish and mix them <br />
3. 	Add sugar and salt at taste <br />
<br />
<br />
Side dish Steamed Buckwheat <br />
Serves 70 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	6 Kg buckwheat <br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Add the buckwheat in a saucepan <br />
2.	Toast it in high heat for 4-5 minutes<br />
2.	In a separate saucepan boil water <br />
3.	When boiling add the buckwheat, reduce to simmer<br />
4.	Cover and cook for 10 minutes until the water is absorbed
    Polish Family # 17 - Beef with gravy
  • This organisation founded in 1997 but we are in this place since 2006.
    Polish Family # 17 - house
  • The dinner table of Tuesday 23 February 2010 at 14:21<br />
<br />
Todays meal, like everyday costs 5zł (€1.25) per person.
    Polish Family # 17 - dinner table
  • We live here for 30 years. We live in a big and most popular part of Kraków - Nowa Huta. Antoni got this flat in 1967, Iwona moved to a flat in the next sector in 1979.  We were working together and that’s how we met. Probably it was an act of God that Iwona moved to that flat next to Antoni and not another one.
    Polish Family # 16 - house
  • Turkey schnitzel <br />
Serves 2 for 2 days <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	700gr breast turkey<br />
3 tablespoons corn oil<br />
1 onion<br />
½ teaspoon turkey ready-mix herbs <br />
1 lemon peel <br />
1 tablespoon honey<br />
1 egg<br />
1 dry bread roll<br />
1 teaspoon corn flour <br />
1 tin peaches <br />
2 teaspoons cranberry<br />
½ cup vegetable oil <br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Cut the turkey in 8 pieces<br />
2.	Marinade the turkey in 3 tablespoons of corn oil, 1 finely chopped onion, herbs, the lemon peel and one tablespoon honey for 2hrs<br />
3.	Mix the egg <br />
4.	Grind the bread and mix with corn flour<br />
5.	Put the turkey in the egg and then crumb it <br />
6.	Fry the turkey in ½ cup of vegetable oil until turns brown<br />
7.	Serve with peaches and cranberry
    Polish Family # 16 - Turkey schnitzel
  • The retirement home, Dom Opieki Społecznej/ DPS w Krakowie is one of the many institutions that depends on "Municipal assistance centre of Krakow area" <br />
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Generally the residents have common meals as in Eucharist and that combines and deepens the ties between them. When people sit together and share a meal, they meet each other, talk together and get to know each other better, this feeling is stronger during religious festivals. Residents appreciate the meals and during those they laugh, joke and simply enjoying themselves.
    Polish Family # 15
  • The retirement home, Dom Opieki Społecznej/ DPS w Krakowie run by the Congregation of the Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary<br />
<br />
The retirement home was founded in March 1995 and the director is Sister Agata Komisarczyk.
    Polish Family # 15 - house
  • The dinner table of Sunday 14 February 2010 at 15:11<br />
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This meal today isn’t one of our favourites. Normally we have traditional Polish dishes. All the ingredients for today’s meal were bought in the local shop and cost about 80zł (€20).
    Polish Family # 14 - dinner table
  • We have been living in this flat for a year now. Before we were living in a nearby area – Nowy Rembertów. The main importance for us is that is a quiet area.
    Polish Family # 14 - house
  • Zeberka w miódzie - Pork ribs with honey <br />
Serves 3<br />
<br />
Ingredients:	½Kg pork ribs <br />
		2 tablespoons ready-mix herbs for pork ‘Kamis”<br />
		5 tablespoons honey <br />
		4 tablespoons ketchup<br />
		2 tablespoons Sarepta Mustard<br />
		1 teaspoon marjoram<br />
		1 onion <br />
		1½ tablespoons vegetable oil <br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Boil the pork ribs in a large saucepan for 20mins <br />
2.	Wash the ribs in cold water <br />
3.	Rub the meat with the herbs <br />
4.	Put the ribs in a baking tray and roast for 30mins<br />
5.	Chop finely the onion <br />
6.	Fry the onion until brown <br />
7.	Take the pan off the fire and add the other ingredients <br />
8.	Serve the ribs and add the sauce <br />
<br />
<br />
Side dish – boiled potatoes <br />
Serves 3 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	4 potatoes  <br />
pinch of salt<br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Put the potatoes in a large saucepan full of salted water<br />
2.	Boil for 30mins
    Polish Family # 14 - dish
  • Roast pork with plums <br />
Serves 5 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	1Kg clear fillet pork <br />
5 dried plums from our garden<br />
¼ teaspoon salt<br />
¼ teaspoon pepper <br />
1 teaspoon English herbs ready-mix <br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Make a hole in the pork and stuff the plums<br />
2.	Fry it for a little while so the juice will stay in the meat<br />
3.	Rub the meat with the herbs the salt and the pepper and wrap it in aluminium foil<br />
4.	Put in a tray and roast for 1¼ hr at 200º <br />
<br />
<br />
Baked potatoes <br />
Serves 5 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	10 potatoes <br />
salt<br />
¼ teaspoon pepper <br />
3 garlic cloves <br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Cut the potatoes in quarters <br />
2.	Boil the potatoes in salted water for 5 mins <br />
3.	Place the potatoes in a tray and sprinkle the salt the pepper and grinded garlic<br />
4.	Bake for 40mins at 180º<br />
<br />
<br />
Boiled red cabbage <br />
Serves 5 <br />
<br />
Ingredients: 	½Kg red cabbage<br />
¼ teaspoon salt<br />
¼ teaspoon black pepper <br />
The juice of one lemon<br />
1 apple <br />
1 cup sultanas <br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
1.	Shred the cabbage <br />
2.	Boil the cabbage for 5mins <br />
3.	Let it cool down<br />
4.	Grind the apple<br />
5.	Mix the cabbage with the other ingredients
    Polish Family # 13 - dish
  • We moved to that house 12 years ago from the centre of Wołomin. Robert was born in Wołomin so we wanted to stay here. It is close to Warsaw but it is a quite and calm area, a nice secure neighborhood. We like the natural environment and that our house borders with the woods.
    Polish Family # 13 - house
  • Mateusz 22, Mateusz 21, Grzegorz 2, Anita 22<br />
Lublin, Poland<br />
<br />
We are all students.<br />
<br />
Rarely we eat together. We coming back home at different times so it is hard to meet and have a lunch or dinner together. Everyone cooks for himself. We learned from our families, we watch how other people cook and copy them.<br />
<br />
The best meal is the one our parents make. Family dinner with our parents is very important, we don’t see them very often so when we go home we really enjoy it. Mateusz’s 22 family is in Denmark, only his mother is in Poland so when he visit her for dinner he stays to help her with the house too. Sometimes Anita cooks more than what she can eat so we eat the leftovers. Once she made a dinner for all of us.
    Polish Family # 12 - portrait
  • Anita moved into that flat 3 years ago the others followed latter, last to come was Mateusz 21. We knew each other before moving together. It’s a nice big flat close to the centre, not very expensive and with a balcony that we sit in the spring.
    Polish Family # 12 - house
  • Pierogi with mushrooms and sauerkraut  and with meat<br />
Serves 4<br />
<br />
Ingredients:  a bag of frozen pierogi made by Anita’s mother<br />
<br />
<br />
Preparation :<br />
	1.	Bring a large saucepan full of water to boil<br />
	2.	Add the pierogi and boil for 20mins
    Polish Family # 12 - dish
  • worker stacking stacks of 5 litre olive oil containers at the warehouse
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  • stacks of 5 litre olive oil containers at the warehouse
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  • stacks of empty 5 litre olive oil containers at the warehouse
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  • stacks of empty  5 litre olive oil containers at the warehouse
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  • stacks of 5 litre olive oil containers at the warehouse
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  • stacks of 5 litre olive oil containers at the warehouse
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  • the production line
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  • the labeling machine
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  • the oilive oil packaging machine
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  • the oilive oil packaging machine
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  • the olive oil  filling machine
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  • the olive oil filling machine
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  • worker operates the olive oil tin filling machine
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  • the olive oil refinery monitor
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  • the operator of the olive oil filling machine
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  • the olive oil refinery monitor
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  • tins and bottles of processed olive oil for testing at the plants' laboratory
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  • bottles of raw olive oil for testing at the plants' laboratory
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  • bottles of raw olive oil for testing at the plants' laboratory
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  • bottles of raw and processed olive oil for testing at the plants' laboratory
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  • bottles of raw olive oil for testing at the plants' laboratory
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  • bottles of raw olive oil for testing at the plants' laboratory
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  • bottles of raw olive oil for testing at the plants' laboratory
    09GMK_090306_182.jpg
  • the olive oil quality form
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  • the olive oil quality form
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  • the olive oil quality form and containers with samples
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  • two chemists tasting olive oil at the olive oil testing room
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  • olive oil quality testing
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  • This house is 120 years old and belongs to our family. We moved here 22 years ago from Warsaw because here is not polluted and the air is clean. Now are kids have moved out. Anita in Lublin where she studies and Lukasz lives in Warsaw.
    Polish Family # 11 - house
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