Portal:Poland/Did you know/37

... that in 2013 Poland became the world's largest producer of mead made according to traditional methods (example pictured)?
... that Compendium ferculorum ("A Collection of Dishes"), the oldest cookbook in Polish, inspired the description of a traditional banquet in the Polish national epic?
... that Janina Goss has been described as the "power behind the throne" in modern Polish politics?
... that Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Auschwitz concentration camp?