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}}</ref> I will write about the title of this book in a different post. For now, it suffices to say that the poet never had the occasion to fulfil his dream of hosting a real-life Old Polish-Lithuanian feast and had to satisfy his culinary fantasies by conjuring up a perfect traditional banquet on the pages of ''Pan Tadeusz''.
He placed his description of an old-fashioned "Polish dinner" in the books (chapters) XI and XII of the poem. In the earlier books, on the other hand, we can find depictions of the kind of meals the author could remember from his own youth in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which covered not the territory of the modern-day Republic of Lithuania, but also the much larger Belarus). Yet something that was just the ordinary, daily fare of ..... the "land of [his] childhood" to Mickiewicz, is a forgotten Old Polish cuisine to us -- the same thing that whatever he read about in his treasured cookbook was to him. And just like Mickiewicz fantasized about recreating an Old Polish banquet, so would I like to share with you my own vision of a ''Pan Tadeusz''-style supper. Someone someday may actually try to prepare a meal based on the menu I propose here; but for now let's stick to our imagination.
== “They Supped Inside the Castle” ==
