Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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2022 saw the bicentennial anniversary of the first edition of Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballades and Romances. To celebrate, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute launched the programme 44 x Mickiewicz, to support projects illustrating the ideas of Polish Romanticism as a crossing point for many cultures, opinions and art movements. And so the idea arose at the Museum of King Jan III's Palace in Wilanów, to approach this breakthrough moment in the history of Polish literature and culture from a slightly different angle, that is, through the favourite dishes of our Prophet-poet.

Maciej Nowicki, a chef and a researcher of flavours of the past, normally working at the Museum of King Jan III's Palace, prepared a special menu inspired by Mickiewicz, the Great Emigration, Poland, and France. It was presented to invited guests on 23 October 2022, at the Embassy of Poland in Paris.

Try out the recipes from the event:
https://culture.pl/en/article/mickiewicz-saffron-milkcaps-flavours-of-migration

Photogallery from the event (Polish only):
https://culture.pl/pl/galeria/smaki-emigracji-mickiewicz-we-francji-pokaz-kulinarny-galeria