Although the above photo was taken at a Polish restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, it still gives you a delicious taste of Polish culture. The dish shown is from Krolewskie Jadlo Polish Restaurant (695 Manhattan Avenue) and is roasted hocks in beer served with mashed potatoes, sauerkraut and dill cucumber salad. According to Me So Hungry, the hock is enormous and features a nice amount of meat as well as bone, far and skin. Apparently “some parts tasted like roasted chicken, some like ham, some like pork shoulder…all very tender.”
Jessica Festa is the editor of the travel sites Jessie on a Journey (http://jessieonajourney.com) and Epicure & Culture (http://epicureandculture.com). Along with blogging at We Blog The World, her byline has appeared in publications like Huffington Post, Gadling, Fodor’s, Travel + Escape, Matador, Viator, The Culture-Ist and many others. After getting her BA/MA in Communication from the State University of New York at Albany, she realized she wasn’t really to stop backpacking and made travel her full time job. Some of her most memorable experiences include studying abroad in Sydney, teaching English in Thailand, doing orphanage work in Ghana, hiking her way through South America and traveling solo through Europe. She has a passion for backpacking, adventure, hiking, wine and getting off the beaten path.
