Classic Polish donut with rose jam,
Bolesławiec Coffee cup,
Very Polish concept of Second Breakfast.
Feeling nostalgic about my time teaching at Wrocław University in Poland.
There's a fabulous pączki shop right across from my office, (and therefore, one block from my flat) and the have a window from which they only sell pączkis all day long. @haskar please come to Wrocław next time I am there let's have one together!
(I should have made a regular amount of coffee rather than an espresso because it doesn't show up in the photo!)
This looks fantastic. It's so funny how we happen to be in the same places, but not always at the same time. I have been an Erasmus student in Wrocław in 2012/13. And I got a Bolesławiec teapot there!
Oh oh oh, deliciousness! I want to stretch my hand through the screen and take one to eat........
It's also a hobbit concept, of course. Second breakfast, third breakfast, elevenses.....I think my natural status is therefore Polish hobbit :)
@toinette Marie -- I feel like we keep passing each other in various places! I taught there two years after that, but I visited and spoke at the university while you were there. I was in the English Philology Dept. What did you study? I lived in the Galleria Italiano building in city center where the Tralalalala ice cream shop is. Have you been back? It has changed SO much in city center even in the five years it's been for me, and I go back every year to do something at the university. I was there when the pandemic forced me back home in March! My last two attempts to teach there have been foiled so I might as well stop planning to teach there again.
@casablanca -- hahaha -- Polish Hobbit Casablanca! What I also found fascinating is that no matter what time of day someone invited me to meet them -- 9am, noon, 3pm, even 6pm -- it always involved CAKE. I soon realized the Polish people have a very sweet tooth, rivaling even mine.
@pamknowler -- Bolesławiec pottery is most classically Polish, and I have acquired pieces of it every trip (and I go every year) so I have mugs, cups and saucers, eggcup, citrus juicer, etc. But this year I was going to get a teapot like @toinette got but the pandemic sent me home a few days after I arrived -- and without the teapot.
@blueberry1222@dutchothotmailcom -- My Polish housekeeper brought those by for me during the earlier months of lockdown. I think she was worried about me always being alone. The Polish population in Chicago is second in size only to Warsaw so it's possible to obtain virtually any Polish foods and goods here, too.
@ricksnap -- so nice of you to say that! How did you know? Just last night, I purchased an online course on Still Life to give myself something to learn during the winter months when outdoor squirrel photography won't be as appealing.
@leonbuys83 -- definitely! Rose Jam is the most traditional but they have many different kinds of flavors. My favorite ones have orange peel sprinkled on top. And if it's a couple days old when they arrive, just put them in the microwave -- very carefully watching over it, a few seconds. Yum!
@30pics4jackiesdiamond@ludwigsdiana@happypat Thank you for your comments! I hadn't thought of this as "still life" or "food photography" but I suppose it is, and a beginning of my winter adventures in photography. (although I took this several months ago)
@jyokota This is so funny! I've been at the cultural studies/history department and lived at ul. Grunwaldzka (do you know the Kredka- and Olowek-buildings?). After my studies there I have been back nearly every year until 2016 or 2017. You're right, it's changing so fast! Locals are talking about gentrification... It's been such a great time. I love the city very much. Don't give up! Maybe there will be another chance to teach there again.
@toinette OK, so we have to stay in touch -- we may have already passed each other and not known it, because we were both definitely there in some of the same years. You lived in iconic buildings! The longest time I was there was in 2015 and @Taffy came to visit me. She gave a talk to my students, and the English Philology building is on Kuźnicza. We were so close to the Cultural Studies and History Dept building, and undoubtedly walked by it in our wanderings.
Thanks Junko. I am looking forward to these beautiful moments. At now pączek are not eaten. There is a post. And the pączek will be good at the carnival. What do you think about faworek?
It's also a hobbit concept, of course. Second breakfast, third breakfast, elevenses.....I think my natural status is therefore Polish hobbit :)
@jyokota beautiful composition truly delicious!