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Sour Cherry and Sally Sheep’s Cheese Danishes
Sour Cherry and Sally Sheep's Cheese Danishes

Sour Cherry and Sally Sheep’s Cheese Danishes excerpted from Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond by Laurel Kratochvila. Photography by Malgosia Minta.

Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond by Laurel Kratochvila.New York Times Best Cookbook of 2025

“In Dobre Dobre, Laurel Kratochvila leads us down the gloriously buttery, poppy seed strewn path of modern and classic Polish baking. Ms. Kratochvila, who runs a bakery in Berlin, writes meticulous recipes that deliver impressive results.”
New York Times

Discover the vast and varied Polish baking tradition, old and new, Jewish and diasporic, in this authoritative collection of 120 plus recipes from James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila.

Poland’s distinctive baking culture is a product of its rich and complicated history, from the World Wars to the rise of Communism to the cultural exchange that inevitably comes with being a country with seven neighbors and generations of migration. Step into a Polish piekarnia or bakery and you are greeted by an abundance of tiny cookies and rugelach, decorative layer cakes and cheesecakes, sweet yeast buns and danishes, and hearty rye breads and sourdough loaves.

In this repertoire expanding baking book, American born, Berlin based baker and 2023 James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila brings you more than 120 familiar and inventive treasures. These include innovative recipes of her own as well as recipes from pioneering Polish bakers, such as:

  • Horseradish, Beet, and Summer Greens Bialys
  • Sunflower Rye Loaf
  • Plum Butter Carnival Donuts
  • Rano Piekarnia’s Summer Bilberry Buns
  • Chocolate and Whipped Cream Warsaw Cake
  • Karpatka also known as cream and choux cake
  • Soft Iced Toruń Gingerbread
  • Rose and Almond Jewel Rugelach
  • Twisted Krakow Bagels
  • Sauerkraut and Mushroom Rolls
  • And much more.

Vivid storytelling and fascinating historical details illuminate the significance behind each recipe. (more…)

Crispy Smoked Tofu with Black Polish Sauce
Crispy Smoked Tofu with Black Polish Sauce

Crispy Smoked Tofu with Black Polish Sauce excerpted from Polish’d: Modern Vegetarian Cooking from Global Poland © Michał Korkosz, 2023. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment.

Polish’d: Modern Vegetarian Cooking from Global Poland by Michal Korkosz

Michał Korkosz’s first book, Fresh from Poland—a Booklist Top 10 Cookbook of 2020 hailed as “a vegetable wonderland” by The San Francisco Chronicle—brought a Polish vegetarian cookbook to American readers for the first time. Now, he moves from celebrating Poland’s history with vegetarian versions of traditional recipes to exploring Polish cooking’s rich present with 100 exciting recipes.

Polish’d includes both typical Polish favourites made vegetarian, like Kakory (Potato Empanadas) Filled with Roasted Vegetables and Cheese, and new flavours brought to Poland through immigration and cultural exchange, like Miso Żurek with Mashed Potatoes, Roasted Mushrooms, and Dill. Its recipes showcase fresh vegetables, grains, and herbs, but there’s also plenty of buttery, sugary, and cheesy comfort-food goodness to be found. Readers will see, and taste, Polish food in a new way as they enjoy dishes like:

  • Chilled Cucumber-Melon Soup with Goat Cheese, Crispy Apple, and Mint
  • Kopytka with Umami Sauce, Spinach, Hazelnuts, and Poppy Furikake
  • Nettle Pesto Pasta with Radishes and Asparagus
  • Grilled Broccoli with Lemon Mayo, Umami Bomb Sauce and Poppy Seeds
  • Tomatoes and Peaches with Soft Goat Cheese, Crispy Sage, and Superior Brown Butter Sauce
  • Carmelized Twaróg Basque Cheesecake

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