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A gift from Queen Bona

They remain on Polish tables since centuries. Historians claim that they appeared here thanks to the Queen Bona which instilled a fashion for eating such vegetables as cauliflowers, celeries, leeks and asparaguses. Soup vegetables – this way these imported vegetable gems were being named – settled on Polish flower beds and in Polish kitchens. The presence of asparagus in Poland confirms Wojciech Wielądko, who in a culinary textbook from the end of 18th century described a recipe for preparing it. Well, also Mickiewicz recalled them in Pan Tadeusz: “after a vegetable or fruit soup prepared with sour cream and served cold crayfish, chickens and asparagus were on the way”. So contrary to the appearances shapely white and green batons aren’t an eccentric imported newness of the last decades.
Ludwik Majlert whose family plants asparagus for over 100 years recalls: – In our household traditions of asparagus cultivation reach 1902, when Wilhelm Meylert founded the first asparagus field. At those times asparagus from Marcelin came across straight to Petersburg. Until today Varsovians at the first days of May traditionally visit his household in order to buy the freshest asparagus, because this is the first appearing vegetable during every Polish spring.

The continuation of the article one may read in USTA Magazine.

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