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[[File:{{#setmainimage:Bona.jpg}}|thumb|Queen Bona and her ladies-in-waiting with some Medi veggies<br>{{small|By Maja Berezowska (1970)}}]]

Polish people are a nation of ~~great~~ soup lovers. The principal meal of the day traditionally consists of two courses: a soup and ~~the~~ ``the other dish". The soup is typically based on a stock made by boiling meat together with some bay leaves, allspice grains and a bunch of vegetables: ~~carrot~~, parsley ~~root~~, celeriac and leek. All groceries in ~~Polans~~ sell ready-made bundles of these soup greens, which are collectively known as ''``włoszczyzna"'', or literally, ``Italian stuff". The reason for this name, as every Polish ~~schoolkid~~ will tell you, is that it was an Italian ~~priness~~, Bona Sforza, who in 1518 married King Sigismund the Old of Poland and brought previously unknown vegetables from her native peninsula to her new homeland. Did she bring just a single bundle ~~of these veggies~~ or several cartloads? That we don’t know. What matters is that she forever revolutionized the local foodways in a country, where, prior to her arrival, vegetables must have been completely unknown.

Polish people are a nation of big soup lovers. The principal meal of the day traditionally consists of two courses: the soup and ``the other dish". The soup is typically based on stock made by boiling meat together with some bay leaves, allspice grains and a bunch of vegetables: carrots, parsley roots, celeriac and leek. All groceries in Poland sell ready-made bundles of these soup greens, which are collectively known as ''``włoszczyzna"'', or literally, ``Italian stuff". The reason for this name, as every Polish school kid will tell you, is that it was an Italian princess, Bona Sforza, who in 1518 married King Sigismund the Old of Poland and brought previously unknown vegetables from her native peninsula to her new homeland. Did she bring just a single bundle or several cartloads? That we don’t know. What matters is that she forever revolutionized the local foodways in a country, where, prior to her arrival, vegetables must have been completely unknown.

Is it true, though -- or rather one of Poland's most enduring culinary-historical myths?

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-Polish people are a nation of great soup lovers. The principal meal of the day traditionally consists of two courses: a soup and the ``the other dish". The soup is typically based on a stock made by boiling meat together with some bay leaves, allspice grains and a bunch of vegetables: carrot, parsley root, celeriac and leek. All groceries in Polans sell ready-made bundles of these soup greens, which are collectively known as ''``włoszczyzna"'', or literally, ``Italian stuff". The reason for this name, as every Polish schoolkid will tell you, is that it was an Italian priness, Bona Sforza, who in 1518 married King Sigismund the Old of Poland and brought previously unknown vegetables from her native peninsula to her new homeland. Did she bring just a single bundle of these veggies or several cartloads? That we don’t know. What matters is that she forever revolutionized the local foodways in a country, where, prior to her arrival, vegetables must have been completely unknown.
+Polish people are a nation of big soup lovers. The principal meal of the day traditionally consists of two courses: the soup and ``the other dish". The soup is typically based on stock made by boiling meat together with some bay leaves, allspice grains and a bunch of vegetables: carrots, parsley roots, celeriac and leek. All groceries in Poland sell ready-made bundles of these soup greens, which are collectively known as ''``włoszczyzna"'', or literally, ``Italian stuff". The reason for this name, as every Polish school kid will tell you, is that it was an Italian princess, Bona Sforza, who in 1518 married King Sigismund the Old of Poland and brought previously unknown vegetables from her native peninsula to her new homeland. Did she bring just a single bundle or several cartloads? That we don’t know. What matters is that she forever revolutionized the local foodways in a country, where, prior to her arrival, vegetables must have been completely unknown.
 Is it true, though -- or rather one of Poland's most enduring culinary-historical myths?