Forking Around with History
A blog about food, drink,
language and history
by Karol Palion
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30 September 2025
Use the Forks, Henry
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23 September 2025
Italian Greens from Italian Queens -
23 June 2025
The Gastronomic Order of Pomiane -
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8 April 2023
Blessed Be the Food -
26 August 2022
Eat Bread with Joy, Drink Wine with a Merry Heart -
5 August 2022
Of This Ye Shall Not Eat for It Is an Abomination -
1 April 2022
A Menu Lost in Translation -
29 August 2021
Epic Cooking: The Decorous Rite of the Mushroom Hunt -
4 August 2021
Is Poolish Polish? -
15 November 2020
Good Humour, Good Health: How They Do It in Asia -
27 September 2020
Good Humour, Good Health -
26 June 2020
Ketchup vs Mustard -
1 May 2020
A Fried Pie and a Fish Dish: A Follow-Up -
23 April 2020
Epic Cooking: The Last Old Polish Feast -
23 April 2020
Epic Cooking: The Perfect Cook -
4 March 2020
Packages of Goodness -
8 January 2020
Old Polish Cookery for Beginners -
25 November 2019
Epic Cooking: Supper in the Castle -
21 August 2019
Holey Breads -
28 June 2019
A King Bee -
10 June 2019
A Barrel of Beer for the Benedictine Brothers -
24 April 2019
Good King Stanislas and the Forty Thieves -
3 April 2019
A Royal Banquet in Cracow -
6 March 2019
Epic Cooking: The Wondrous Taste of Bigos -
28 January 2019
Genuine Old Polish Bigos -
18 December 2018
Evading Crusading -
22 November 2018
Tea or Coffee? -
24 October 2018
A Fried Pie and a Fish Dish -
1 October 2018
Epic Cooking: Breakfast at Judge Soplica’s -
12 September 2018
What Has the Battle of Vienna Given Us? -
27 August 2018
Saint Piva of Warka -
18 August 2018
Saint Hyacinth of Pierogi