Polish Cookery: Poland's bestselling cookbook adapted for American kitchens. Includes recipes for Mushroom-Barley Soup, Cucumber Salad, Bigos, Cheese Pierogi and Almond Babka

Poland, like France, is a country where people really know food. One can stop at a wayside inn in the country or at a modest restaurant in a working-class city neighborhood and be served a meal worth remembering. Good food is a tradition.

Polish Cookery is an American adaptation of Uniwersalna Ksiazka Kucharska (The Universal Cookbook), long the most famous standard cookbook in Poland. All weights and measures have been converted to American usage, and suitable substitutions are provided for...