Not a fan of the carp too. Neither Penderecki.
My favourite polish meal is Pierogi with meat and mushrooms. Miam miam.
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What is the “modern way”? I’m guessing with Christianity declining in many countries the late December traditional holiday and celebration is becoming ever more divorced from religion, and focussed for many on family plus, seemingly often, on excess of food, drink and spending. But still with a Christmas Dinner and presents.
Like you said, divorced from religion, and more into good food and gifts.
We have much smaller pierogi, and rather than frying after boiling like yours, we toss the cooked pierogi with breadcrumbs fried in butter, and serve with sour cream. Potato and cheese is my favourite filling (and the only one my parents did), but we often have another as well, which we might vary from year to year (e.g mushroom based). As for fish, we have never had carp, and have don’t stick to the same thing each year so it might be sea trout, monkfish, or almost anything else. (With apologies to the OP for this digression into celebratory and culinary customs.)
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Sweet pierogi with strawberry and sour cream is very nice too.
Only homemade pierogi made here.
DG…
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Hi All,
I came back to this thread expecting to find more discussion on Physics and HiFi 
However I can see we are discussing excellent Polish cuisine.
In which case - as we live in Essex - my wife and I visit London sufficiently frequently to enjoy eating at Ognisko and also Daquise. (My wife studied at Imperial College so knows the area very well).
Does anybody have any other personal recommendations of restaurants for really excellent Polish hospitality in London (or anywhere else for that matter)?
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Sorry, the only ‘Polish’ food I’ve had, other than buying kielbasa (sausage) has been home made.
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I went to the Ognisko Polskie (Polish Hearth Club) in South Ken on a number of occasions in my younger London days. The Bison Grass vodka was indeed excellent! I recall one visit where half way through dinner I realised that a table close by seemed to have the same people at the table as were featured in some of the paintings around the dining room. I thought it was perhaps too much of the vodka, although I later discovered I was right first time…
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I don’t understand. It was the same persons as in the painting? The family of the owners?
Hi FR,
I have in the past tried the various vodkas.
On our most recent visit (in mid-June) we stayed with wine. But did have a multicourse blowout meal. It was celebration of various things (not HiFi related). Wedding anniversary, birthdays and a big home improvement project completion.
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Yes, a few of them were the same as in the pictures. I thought it might have been the effect of the vodka, but apparently not…
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A nephew of mine hosted Xmas eve supper last Christmas. He had some bison grass vodka. I have always in the past found vodka to be boring, pointless, just tasting of alcohol. But I love that one (Zubrowja brand). Delicious! On a recent trip I stumbledacross it in a supermarket in Germany, and again in the shop on a ferry. So I’ve bought a bottle..
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I might still have my Peter Belt stickers in the garage, they came free with a mag, would I be able to sell them?!
Ognisko in South Kensington is really good. But it’s the only place I’ve been, as like others here, I’ve only had homemade Polish food outside of Poland.
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The column that will make a difference to the sound is the final one, the acoustic impedance, as that will vary the amount of sound getting into to the room - though the chance of Linn or its software having the slightest clue how it does that is a solid zero. Having said that, those percentage differences are pretty damn small and will be even smaller when converted to dB and scaled to ear sensitivity - the largest (449.1) being a 1dB lift from 400 - which would only just be audible in an A/B and probably would be buried again if compared to a more reasonable ref of 420 or thereabouts.
As for tailoring the transmission characteristics to match the relative humidity, that is going way beyond gilding the lily - and the idea that their speakers are otherwise perfectly accurate to that sort of degree is fantastical and comical.
Those cables look like Elephant penis’s very very weird
Absolutely, the reason I posted them. For fun.
They must be stupid expensive
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