Monday, March 20, 2017

Flavours of France. March 21 eat dinner "à la française"!

What is this event? That same evening, March 21, on five continents, the heads of various cuisines of the world celebrate the excellent and creative French cuisine serving gourmet dinner "à la française". Dinner this consists of the following items: aperitif, appetizer, dish / a main, cheese platter, dessert (s), and finally - French wines and champagnes.
From year to year the action "Gout de France" gathers an increasing number of restaurants in the world: in 2015. Their number was 1,300 in 2016. - 1715, and this year for the event was declared over 2000 restaurants! This increase is also reported in Poland, which already since the first edition consistently ranks second in the world after France in terms of number of restaurants participating in the project.
159 Polish restaurants that take part in the action are located in 56 cities and towns across the country. At the southern Polish is their 60th in Krakow itself into action joined by as many as 18 restaurants, which on Tuesday 21 March invited the French feast!

Legend centusiach

Jan Sztaudynger wrote about Krakow: "The best feeling here centusie and docentusie." Over the years, she arose the legend of Krakow exaggerated savings, even with greed. The origin of this belief goes back to the Austrian annexation, although the Galician economy was rather sad necessity than passion to collect the money. Colloquially determine centuś is marked by irony, and sometimes even offensive. However, Mieczyslaw Czuma and Leszek Mazan, indefatigable singer of everything Krakow, consider that a sympathetic determine from Cracow, emphasizing his innate sense to save. Is today in Krakow live centusie? Each of us probably knows at least one, though, says Andrzej Kazimierz Banach - author of books on legends of Krakow, it already other times and other centusie.

The Legend of Mr. Twardowski

For years, the dispute continues, the most famous wizard of Krakow, Piotr Twardowski, was a historical or fictional. Twardowski worked on the invention of the philosopher's stone that would allow the transformation of everything into gold, odmładzał and healing disease. To achieve this, he signed a pact with the devil, who was in Rome to give soul. In return, the devil fulfill all his wishes. With the help of the devil, Twardowski doing tricks: stabbed dozens of nails in a poppy seed, piled Błędowska Desert. One day, however, came to the inn, "Rome" and the devil going to his soul, Twardowski jumped on the cock, and flew into the sky, refusing hours. To this day, it lies on the moon, but he misses Krakow, lowers to the ground spider who brings him the gossip from the Krakow florists.