On Dec. 24, the dining table is laden in Polish households, but one chair is empty. Wigilia, the centuries-old Christmas Eve vigil marked in Poland and by Christians of Polish descent everywhere, is a ...

This Polish Christmas Eve tradition includes 12 dishes and desserts which reflect Poland's rich, multicultural culinary past.

My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than ...

Steam rises from the bubbling pots in Elzbieta Bialko’s kitchen, the smell of Polish soups and boiling potato dumplings filling her New Britain home. The cookies have been baked, and about 350 ...

And all through the house all-day preparations were in progress for a traditional Polish Wilija (also known as Wigilija). Some of you have read or heard this story before but it may be interesting to ...

When the first star appears in the sky Sunday night, the Sroka family will celebrate traditional Polish Wigilia, a festive and delicious Christmas Eve celebration marked with good wishes for family ...

The Polish traditions in my family come from a simpler time. Back in the 1960s, when the post office was still profitable and phone calls to people more than 25 miles away cost at least a dollar a ...

Holiday menus are filled with tradition and symbolism. This is the season when grocery lists for Christmas and Hanukkah require special ingredients. Our family has Polish recipe favorites. I recently ...

Editor’s note: This is the latest in a Saturday series of stories and photographs featuring local holiday traditions. VINCO, Pa. – Marie Jarabak has fond memories of her grandmother’s Polish Christmas ...

Before Christmas Eve dinner, some families share the oplatek along with good wishes for each other. The tradition dates back hundreds of years:... Nothing says "I love you," at least in my ...