Bra, Piedmont: Citta Slow

Bra's biennial Slow Food Cheese festival (next edition September 2013)

 The Slow Food Movement's logo

University of Gastronomic Sciences, in Pollenzo just outside of Bra's town centre

 Slow Food salami

Bra's pretty town centre

Contemporary in Krakow

 Małopolski Garden of Arts

 Małopolski Garden of Arts, interior

 MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art

 Bunkier Sztuki

exhibition at Bunkier Sztuki

Zakopane

Street eats in Krakow

obwarzanek bagels

zapiekanka toasted baguettes

zapiekanka stand in Plac Nowy marketplace

typical bar mleczny (‘milk bar’) dishes, including pierogi dumplings

On the trail of contemporary Polish cuisine

Restauracja Gessler's 1930s dining room

Milkbar Tomasza  
 

Restauracja Gessler's elegant vegetable soup

Krakow at sunset

Krakow’s bar mleczny (‘milk bars’)

a traditional Polish milk bar

pierogi dumplings and other traditional Polish dishes

facade of an old Polish milk bar

canteen-style service

the hip new Milkbar Tomasza