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, ...

How did Poland sound during the Partition era, the 123 years when it wasn't on the map? From folk music to Chopin, and from Wagner to Elgar, here’s 19th-century Poland set to music in 12 tracks full ...

Netflix’s ‘The Doll’ and the 2026 film tell Prus’s story very differently. Here’s how they compare – with each other, and with Has’s 1968 film and Ber’s 1977 series.

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

In Poland, there are many places visited ghosts, black dogs, devils and witches. Taking a innocent stroll, one might vanish ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...