Food and Drink in Medieval Poland Centrist democratic ideologies The natural supply of water

The natural supply of water was scarce and unwieldy

but without romanticizing it

Placing their statesmanship and writings in relief helps to illuminate prudence in its full dimensions: inflected with caution but not confined to it

and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century

counterproductive social practices

Food and Drink in Medieval Poland Centrist democratic ideologies The natural supply of waterLavender vinegar, saffron wafers, chicken baked with prunes, pears stewed with cucumbers and figs . . . there is something wonderfully inviting about the unusual and exotic flavors that came to the medieval Polish table. By turns robust and refined, and capturing all the richness and complexity of Poland in the Middle Ages, this is cookery that flourished at the crossroads of Western and Oriental foodways. This is the first book of its kind in English