The sweet, and at times dark, story of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s beautiful headquarters on one of Warsaw’s most ...

The colourful Polish tradition of making ‘pisanki’, or Easter eggs, is more or less a thousand years old. There are dozens of regional varieties, and the most outstanding specimens are exhibited in ...

Kopytka (i.e. ‘little hooves’) are cousins of the Italian gnocchi. They are made with boiled mashed potatoes and a little bit of wheat flour. The dough is rolled and cut into diamond-shaped kluski, ...

You’ve heard of international superstitions like ‘don’t walk under a ladder’, but how about some exclusive to Poland? The 13 ...

A big round of applause, standing ovations, shiny faces in the spotlight – there’s only one place where you can tap your ...

At the end of the 18th century, Polish Enlightenment writers still considered tea to be as suspicious as the blood of bovine animals, frogs, snakes or snails. Stanisław Trembecki, a poet and the ...

Horror never fully settled into Polish cinema, however, it took off in video games. Here’s a review of some of the most ...

Han Kang’s writing explores memory, life after catastrophe and places where past events have left a deep imprint on the ...

Our food in Poland has remained quite seasonal despite access to imported foodstuffs and greenhouse produce. Yes, we do eat lemons, bananas, and avocados all year round (even though the truth is no ...

In July 2011, over 200 Poles gathered in the shadow of Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and danced to Super Junior and T-ara – in ...

In 1843, a prince with a death sentence hanging over him moved into a derelict townhouse on Paris’s Île Saint-Louis, filled ...