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Monika Kucia

is a journalist and culinary superintendent at sialababamak.pl. Monika likes to bring words, flavours and people together. She helps foreigners learn about Poland from the tastiest side. She also creates culinary spectacles in which she encourages participants to eat leftovers, breathe in the smells of the basement, and sprinkle food with golden dust.
Knock Before You Enter
World + People
Dreams and Visions

Knock Before You Enter

An author and psychologist on the power of sensitivity, empathy, and having one’s own room.
Monika Kucia
Culinary Kindness
Art + Stories, Soul + Body
Good Food, Opinions

Culinary Kindness

Amid lockdown and social isolation, our writer discovered that the kindness of others is still alive and well – especially in the kitchen.
Monika Kucia
Gingerbread Therapy
Soul + Body
Good Food

Gingerbread Therapy

Faced with the prospect of a lonely Christmas, our writer found sentimental comfort in baking her own gingerbread cake.
Monika Kucia
Fasting to Reach the Rainbow
Soul + Body
Good Food

Fasting to Reach the Rainbow

The Blackfoot people of the First Nations practise fasting. What are the benefits of their fast?
Monika Kucia
Home Fermentation
Soul + Body
Good Food

Home Fermentation

Fermented products – such as kombucha and kefir – are good for our health. What’s more, they can easily be made at home.
Monika Kucia
Let’s Cooperate
Soul + Body
Good Food

Let’s Cooperate

Food cooperatives act as a counterforce to the wasteful, unecological consequences of mass food production – and build a sense of local community.
Monika Kucia
A Drinking Deer
Soul + Body
The Four Elements

A Drinking Deer

From natural springs flow a sort of mysticism; a keen mixture of their purity and rumoured life-giving properties. Where do such tales come from?
Monika Kucia
Forbidden Fruit
Soul + Body
Good Food

Forbidden Fruit

In this edition of ‘Miracle Diet’, we look at the innocent joys and guilty pleasures of scrumping.
Monika Kucia
Trampled Nobility
Soul + Body
Good Food

Trampled Nobility

In this edition of ‘Miracle Diet’, we look at the mirabelle plum – a juicy, yellow delight that finds its way into all sorts of liquers and sauces.
Monika Kucia
Eat Daisies!
Soul + Body
Good Food

Eat Daisies!

Flowers don’t only belong as crystallized cake decorations – there’s a whole host of wild plants whose flowers you can use for all sorts of jams, sugars and syrups.
Monika Kucia
Thoughts on the End of Humanity
Soul + Body
Good Food

Thoughts on the End of Humanity

When the world is ending, let's turn to our plates.
Monika Kucia
Culinary Meditation
Soul + Body
Good Food

Culinary Meditation

On lazy days – when you want to cook without effort and take time to read or day-dream – it’s good to know some methods for kitchen action with no action at all.
Monika Kucia