Forbidden Fruit

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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.

Nothing tastes quite like an apple from someone else’s orchard.

“In some countries, szaber, meaning ‘scrumping’, is legal. In Sweden, everything that grows is common property,” says Zbigniew Sierszuła, art historian and master liqueur maker. “There are no fences. It is legal to gather any agricultural produce, but there is a custom of respecting ownership. Likewise, the Swedish smörgåsbord is a way of serving food whereby guests have the option of a number of dishes from which to make themselves a full meal that meets their culinary and dietary tastes. When eating from a smorgasbord, you can usually eat your fill for a fixed price. One person will eat more, another less – it all depends on what they need. There is no abuse of the system.

“This caught on around the world, and in Poland, too. I

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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.

Publish date: 19.06.2020

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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.

All of Poland knows her. She is orange in colour, with a sweet and sour flavour. Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you Her Royal Tastiness the Mirabelle Plum.

Wet and juicy, yellow splotches on the pavement underfoot. I see these trampled little balls each year on Rejtana Street, where I live, close to Puławska Street; sometimes I accidentally step on them myself. Zbigniew Sierszuła’s homemade mirabelle plum liqueur, made from yellow, red or black mirabelles is something else. Sublime flavour. Time locked in a bottle. Harmony.

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