My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than ...

Polish food is like a giant hug on a plate—warm, hearty and full of sausage, cheese and potatoes (aka all of our favorites). We wish our babci were always at our kitchen table, folding up a batch of ...

My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than ...

If you've been following my articles, by now you have probably picked up that I'm into Eastern European, Slavic foods. This isn't really an accident. My family are Finnish Swedes and Germans from ...

When sweet and sour converge in a bowl of ruby red borscht, the union is one of beautiful beet perfection. Stripped down, borscht is beet soup, but there are as many versions of borscht as there are ...

Across the street from a Subway and a pair of large McDonald’s arches sits a small market: the Polish G.I Delicatessen (109 First Avenue; 212-982-7893). Boasting a purple awning outside and a window ...