Genoese Sweet Bread (Pandolce)

This delicious sweet bread, flavoured with pine and pistachio nuts and fennel, is the speciality of Genoa, in northern Italy. Serve on its own or with lots of butter.

Polish Potato Bread

This robust bread is typical of Galicia, the part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now Poland. The low-lying, marsh land is very suitable for potato-growing, and, like Ireland, supported…

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Bagels (Jewish)

Once described as tasting “like a doughnut dipped in cement,” these rolls were invented by a Polish Jewish baker to celebrate the victory of his King, Jan Sobieski, in the…

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Bialystoker Rolls

Bialys are almost as popular as bagels; I think the bialys sold in London’s East End are the most delicious. The name comes from the city of Bialystok, once in…

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