Sugared Orange: Recipes & Stories from a Winter in Poland Author: Beata Zatorska | Language: English | ISBN:
0956699227 | Format: PDF
Sugared Orange: Recipes & Stories from a Winter in Poland Description
Review
“Rose Petal Jam took my breath away…” —Huffington Post
“A colorful memoir, a pilgrimage, a travelogue and a food adventure.” —Columbia Daily Tribune
“This lovely book makes you hungry for Poland, even when it plays no part in your own heritage.” —Metro Pulse
“Perhaps the best way to describe the book would be as a declaration of love.” —Valentina’s Cookbook
“Zatorska’s dual narrative—first as a native, with a child’s perspective, then as a mature adult and somewhat outsider—makes for an almost dreamlike quality where memory and time collide and distort—at once evocative, enlightening and compelling.” —Food Tripper
About the Author
Beata Zatorska was raised in a remote village in rural Poland and emigrated to Australia when she was 19. She is the author of Rose Petal Jam and has been a family doctor for more than 20 years. Simon Target has written and directed award-winning television documentaries and directed numerous television food shows with chefs such as Curtis Stone, Rick Stein, and Donna Hay. They both live in Sydney.
- Hardcover: 312 pages
- Publisher: Tabula Books (October 1, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0956699227
- ISBN-13: 978-0956699220
- Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.8 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
My grandmother's family immigrated from Poland in 1913, and though my grandmother was raised in the United States, she preserved certain Polish traditions at home. I grew up with homemade Polish dishes such as pierogi, golabki, barszcz bialy, and a variety of yeast breads and pastries with farmer's cheese, poppyseeds, and fruit. Unfortunately, babcia did not write down many of her Polish recipes. Last year, I was looking for authentic Polish cookbooks that would capture some of her homestyle Polish cooking and stumbled upon the beautiful Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland, so I was very excited to see that "Sugared Orange" was coming out.
"Sugared Orange: Recipes and Stories from a Winter in Poland," is the second in a series of four books chronicling the rhythm (and flavors) of the seasons in Poland. The first volume, "Rose Petal Jam," traced Beata Zatorska's childhood memories and flavors of a Polish summer across different cities including Warsaw, Poznan, Torun, and Zamosc (a town near my family's ancestral city) via her grandmother's recipes.
In "Sugared Orange," we are taken on a journey to Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow, and Lodz, treated to the many scenes of a Polish winter, and invited to participate in winter holidays like St. Nicholas' Day, Christmas Eve (Wigilia), and New Year's. For a young Beata, hard-to-get oranges represented Christmas as well as a taste of the exotic; Beata's grandmother used to make sugared orange peel every winter and "the perfume of orange peel infused my brain with dreams of tropical lands, orange trees, and exotic adventures for when I grew up.
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