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== The Founder: The Last Nobleman in Communist Poland ==
[[File:Tadeusz Przypkowski 1.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|Tadeusz Przypkowski(1905–1977), a gnomonist and gastronome]]
Some time ago, Prof. Jarosław Dumanowski, head of the Culinary Heritage Centre at the History Department of Copernicus University in Toruń, advised me to take interest in the collection of old hand-written recipes that are held in the archives of [http://muzeum.jedrzejow.pl/o-nas/zbiory Przypkowski Museum in Jędrzejów]. Now, anyone who's ever heard anything of that institution, will surely understand my initial reaction: it's a museum of sundials, though, isn't it?
