#Gołąbki [go-whoomp-ki], is a star of the PolishFest menu! It is a main dish consisting of seasoned meat, rice and vegetables lovingly wrapped in a cabbage leaf and baked in a tomato based sauce. Gołąbki literally means “little pigeons” in #Polish and is the plural form of the word. If you want just one, you should ask for a gołąbek. Polish myth holds that the King of #Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Casimir IV, fed his army with gołąbki before a key battle of the Thirtee

By Anntonette Zembrzuski Alberti Although #polka music has a huge, loyal following, people who haven’t been converted often see it as old-fashioned and associate it with negative stereotypes of #EasternEuropean immigrants. If you are in that second group, I am here to tell you not only are you wrong, but you are missing out! Polka started out as an international dance craze – sort of a 19th Century “Macarena.” It came out of the the ballrooms of Prague in the 1830’s. The name