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Polish eating habits

Most Poles consider themselves to be healthy eaters, but few take up special diets and fried meat is still the main dish on many Polish tables, show the results of CEBOS report. Despite warnings of physicians and media campaign, Polish eating habits have not undergone considerable changes during last fifteen years. 

The consumption of vegetables and poultry increased considerably, consumption of fruits and dairy, such as yoghurts or cheese and rice has also slightly increased, but still the majority of Poles (61% of the people researched) think that the dishes they eat very much resemble the dishes of their parents’ cuisine. The opinion that Poles eat healthy food is very popular (65%) and some even think that the food they eat is very healthy (8%). “Subjective evaluation of own eating habits does not have to be justified by facts”, the report says. And so only 32% of the responders declared they eat fruit between the meals, similar number (38%) avoids unhealthy snacks e.g. chips and sweets. 78% of the persons researched eat regular meals but only 15% takes up any special diets for health improvement, and 11% for their good looking. 

Poland Tradicional Dishes

Cucumber soup

Cucumber soup is a traditional Polish soup (sometimes simply ogórkowa). It is made from sour, salted cucumbers and potato. Occasionally rice is substituted for the potatoes. A similar soup is also common in Russia and Ukraine, where it is known asrassolnik.

The cucumber soup is a soup based on cucumbers, also known in various cuisines. The two major varieties are the fresh cucumber soup and pickled cucumber soup.

Kopytka

Kopytka, kapytki(literally "little hooves") are a kind of potato dumpling originating from Poland. They are very similar to gnocchi, although they are typically served baked with cheese, fried bacon or onion. The dish is a part of Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian cuisines.

The typical ingredients are grated potatoes and flour, but may also include eggs, salt, and other seasoning.

The Polish dish is usually cooked in salted water, whereas in Belarusian and Lithuanian cuisines kapytki is baked first, then stewed or boiled in water.

Gingerbread 

Gingerbread is a sweet food-product flavored with ginger and typically using honey or molasses^[1] (treacle) rather than just sugar. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a soft, moist loaf cake to something close to a ginger biscuit. The different types likely share a common origin.

Bibliografia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber_soup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopytka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gingerbread

Traditional dishes

Bigos

 Typical ingredients include white cabbage, sauerkraut (kapusta kiszona in Polish), various cuts of meat and sausages, often whole or puréed tomatoes, honey and mushrooms. The meats may include pork (often smoked), ham, bacon, sausage, veal, beef, and, as bigos is considered a hunter's stew, venison, rabbit, or other game; leftover cuts find their way into the pot as well. It may be seasoned with pepper, caraway, juniper berries, bay leaf, marjoram, pimenta, dried or smoked plums, often red wine and other ingrediente.

Borscht

1 Put 4 cups of the beef broth, shank, and quartered onion in a large pot and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to a simmer, cover and cook until the meat is falling-off-the-bone tender, about 1 hour 30 minutes.

2 Remove the meat from the pot. Remove any bone, connective tissue, and excess fat. Chop up the meat, place in a bowl, and chill in the refrigerator. Let the broth cool at room temperature, then transfer to the refrigerator and let chill until cold—4 hours to up to a day.

3 When the broth is chilled, any fat will have risen to the top and solidified. Remove and discard this fat. Return the pot to the stove and add the remaining broth, the carrots, beets, and the diced potato. Bring to a boil, lower the heat to a low simmer, cover and simmer for 30 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender.

4 Add the chopped meat to the pot, the sliced cabbage, and a half cup of the fresh dill. Cook for another 15 minutes or so, until the cabbage is cooked through. Add the vinegar and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Serve ladled into bowls with a dollop of sour cream and a sprinkling of fresh dill.

Pierogi

The dough, which is made by mixing flour and warm water, sometimes with an egg, is rolled flat and then cut into squares with a knife or circles using a cup or drinking glass. The filling is placed in the middle and the dough folded over to form a half circle. The pierogi or vareniki are boiled until they float, drained, and sometimes fried or baked in butter before serving. They can be served with melted butter, sour cream, or garnished with small pieces of fried bacon, onions, and also mushrooms.^[5] Dessert varieties may be topped with apple sauce. Some families in North America serve them with maple syrup. Another variation of pierogi, popular among Czechs and Slovaks and called pirohy, uses dough made of flour and curd with eggs, salt and water.

Polish typical dishes

The polish culture offers a big variety of dishes , here are the most important dishes for this interesting culture.

For entrees they have this soups :

• Zupa pomidorowa - Tomato soup usually served with noodle or rice.
• Kartoflanka - Potato soup
• Chłodnik - Cold beet soup made of soured milk, young beet leaves, beets, cucumbers and chopped fresh dill.

For the main course it offers these dishes :

• Gulasz - stew of meat, noodles and vegetables (especially potato), seasoned with paprika and other spices usually eaten with buckwheat kasza. 

• Pierogi - dumplings, usually filled with sauerkraut, mushrooms, meat, potato, savory cheese, sweet curd cheese with a touch of vanilla, or blueberries or other fruits, such as cherries or strawberries, and sometimes even apples—optionally topped with sour cream, and sugar for the sweet versions.^[19] 
• Kiełbasa - sausage is a staple of Polish cuisine and comes in dozens of varieties, smoked or fresh, made with pork, beef, turkey, lamb, veal with every region having its own specialty.

Tourism in Poland

Poland is a part of the global tourism market with constantly increasing number of visitors. Tourism in Poland contributes to the country's overall economy. The most popular cities are Kraków, Wrocław,Gdańsk, Warsaw, Poznań, Lublin, Toruńand the historic site of Auschwitz -German nazi concentration camp inOświęcim. The best recreational destinations include Poland's Masurian Lake District, Baltic Sea coast, Tatra Mountains (the highest mountain range of Carpathians), Sudetes and Białowieża Forest. Poland's main tourist offers consist of sightseeing within cities and out-of-town historical monuments, business trips, qualified tourism, agrotourism, mountain-hiking and climbing among others. Poland is the 17th most visited country in the world by foreign tourists, as ranked by World Tourism Organization .

Education in Poland

 One of the major recent developments of the Polish economy is the ongoing planned overhaul of the motorway network in Poland. According to the European Union, the road infraestructure in Poland needs more development. Due to the rapad develompent of Polands economy, bundled with a substancial influí of funds from the EU, plans for an extensiva motorway network connected with Europes own motorway network have begun to see the light of day.

Education in Polan is based on primary school usually starts at 6 years old. Primary school is divided into 2 cycles of 3 years. The first is integrated with one teacher handling alone all the subjects, the second have a subject based teaching, and the end of primary school is a compulsory international competence test.

Secondary education is in something call Gymnasium. Is lasts 3 years. The students are evaluated based on their continuing results.

Road infrastructure and job opportunities in Poland

Road infrastructure :

The Polish highway network has been viewed in the past as chronically underdeveloped and lacking in basic modern infrastructure. After the fall of communism and after joining the European Union, this situation is rapidly changing for the better and in the next decade , Poland plans to have a very modern network of highways.

Polish public roads are grouped into categories related to administrative division . Poland has 412,264 km (256,170 mi) of public roads, of which 131,863 km (81,940 mi) are unsurfaced (2011)

In recent years, the network has been improving and government spending on road construction recently saw a huge increase, due to rapid development of the country and the inflow of European Union funds for infrastructure projects.

Job Opportunities :

Now a days Poland it's a country who haves a level of  unemployment of 11,9 % that is low level , this says that Poland is a country who offers many opportunities of job , and for the people who comes from other country is a nice place to catch good Laboral chances.

The Polish Flag

The globalization

Globalization has made progressive changes in the social, political, and economic affecting the identity of each country. Globalization has positive and negative aspects. Positives can be access to culture and science economy and global markers. Negative can be many consumerism and environment damage.However, Poland was located by the list for the year 2010 by the KOF index of globalization in the 23th position with 81,26.

Globalization is something inevitable since now the obtaining of information, communication and transportation from one country to another, because technologies allow us to know that it happens on the other side of the world in minutes or be able to buy in the shop next to house products in a very distant to our country.

How are the polish people

The polish people are very sociable and friendly with the other people, but are very strict when they invite you to some reounion, because they like that you be punctual with the time that they put also they like that you go dressed conservatively and that you offer to help the hostess with the preparation or clearing up after a meal is served. 

How the polish people meets other people

The polish cultura is a peculiar group of people, they like to be gathered in family and make a lot of reunions with their friends. If you are invited to a pole's house you must have to be punctual because of their culture their are a very punctual people, also if you go to a party in the house of some polish person , the hosts of the reunion will introduce you to the social circle of the party , usually starting with the women and after the man.



Bibliography : http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/poland.html

JUWENALIA

Polan has a tradition called Juwenalia which is that all students leave the city to have fun doing parades and using costumes, they call that: Have the key to the city.
This event is made in summer to early June.
It is a time of relaxation for students to relax from the studies and also to know that they are very important.

Polish religion

Poland is a country with a big diversity of religions, but exist one who is the religion that much people believes on it this is the Roman Catholic. 91,2 % of the polish citizens believe on this religion , as we can see the Roman Catholic plays an important role in the lives of many polish citizens . Also in this country the Roman Catholic have a good social and political influence , because church it's see  as a symbol of heritage and culture

Drowning Of Marzanna

One of the most  intriguing rituals in Poland is the Drowning of Marzanna. The pagan ritual consists in making a doll  out of branches and grass, for it to be burned and sank into a river. In this ritual the doll represent winter, sickness, death and destruccion. Therefore, the Drowning of  Manzanna symbolizes the welcoming of the spring and the  good harvest

Śmigus-Dyngus

Smogus-Dyngusn is an important celebration for the polish culture that is held on Easter Monday.

This celebration consist that boys throw water over girls and spank them with pussy willow branches on Easter Monday also the girls do the same to boys but on the Easter Tuesday. This celebration starts many years ago and is important for the polish culture because  it meets a lot of different regions and much young people who shared with the others.

Poland, officially theRepublic of Poland (Polish: Rzeczpospolita Polska; , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine and Belarus to the east; and the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) and Lithuania to the north. The total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi), making it the 71st largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the34th most populous country in the world, the sixth most populous member of the European Union, and the most populous post-communist member of the European Union. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions.

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