It is so amazing that an American guy is a tour guide of Stargard. ;))) Thank you

Glad you both have your health back and sharing your wonderful trips when the "Kitchen is closed!" I really look forward to the places you go. Have a wonderful weekend.

A lot of pride in those buildings, notice, no litter, no graffiti. I'm lovin' the tours. Some sad stories, esp when history has gone up in flames

Great history lesson of this small . l like your sense of humor. I enjoy learning about your wife's life history of her home town.

I rate this episode 10 out of 10.

thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping you would add to the channel. Closed, day off, is now whole additional reason to come to the channel. Dzękuja Bardzo.

I love the travelogues as much as the recipes

I really enjoyed Friday’s with you guys he is so funny that is a good thing makes me laugh every time

Beautiful. And a brewery! A place to visit!

This was great! The history, the tour of Stargard, the food and of course both of you. It is a beautiful city and so well maintained and restored. I am so excited about your next cookbook Anna! Have the best weekend!

This was wonderful! This was very special as well, as my husband was born in and lived in Stargard until he was 10, when he emigrated with his family to Canada. Thank you for the lovely tour! 💗

Is it Polish DNA....at 70 years old went back to great grandmas house ( both my grandmas died with a year or 2 of both my parents birth) and had tears rolling down my face. So many memories, my eyes are leaking as I write....

Poland has so much history to offer. I learn something new from everyone of your episodes. I think I would go with Mark’s Cuban sandwich but I definitely would love to sample a small portion of Anna’s herring sandwich. 😋😋 As always, great job and thank you for sharing. ❤️🇵🇱💙🇺🇸 CT, USA

Another informative video of a nice historical Polish city. The City Hall has a pretty unusual architecture. Interesting story of your grandpa picking a house Anna 😊 My husband did explain to me in more detail. Nice narration Mark and hope Anna will get to see her babcia soon. Herring sandwich looks good too Btw... Cheers

Thank you for sharing your time. Beautiful city, the history is great

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

I was born in Stargard, most of my family lives there. Thank you for posting this video. It was very emotional for me - I knew all the streets you were walking around. I haven't been back in over 30 years when I left Poland with my parents, but it is so dear to my heart and I remember everything about it more than my mother who goes there a lot lol. My parents got married by the cathedral in the city hall, my babcias lived near the Mill on Okszei and Bieruta (street names may have changed since for some reason they love to change the names lol). Right across from the park with the ampitheater. I have a picture by the mill when I was little, still hanging in my room. My grandpa was a builder and helped to rebuild the city after WWII. I found some old pre war pictures online and boy was this a stunning city before it got destroyed and the 70's and 80's style buildings got erected. It is still very beautiful. I really miss it hopefully you guys will go there again. :) Love your shows.

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy that you enjoyed the Stargard video. Our goal is to share Poland with people, and to show those that no longer live here that Poland is still beautiful and strong! Thanks for watching.

Btw, glad you're both feeling better. I plugged Ania with Francis Lam for The Splendid Table, hope they get in touch, you deserve the recognition!

@markhurning8051

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thanks!

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

I love him and his show, it’s my dream to meet him and be on the show one day. Big supporter of NPR. 😍

@bethhelminiak5063

3 жыл бұрын

@@PolishYourKitchen me too! I don't have any kind of real influence, but I'm starting a total crusade. He's done a lot of Eastern European stuff, but very little on Poland. And you're just about the best representative I can think of!

Stargard. What a cool name!

I love your Kitchens Closed series. So much fun and lots of historical information. Keep them coming. 😊

Lovely Ana. I can feel your emotion right through my little iPad. Thank you. ❤️

Lovely! You lit a fire in me for history. ❤️ Love your "show"! I keep adding more places to my bucket list for when i finally go to Poland.

Poland, a Beautiful Country. It survives & blooms. May all of Poland continue to give reverence to Blessed Mother & mostly to her son, Lord Jesus Christ. Keep Peace & goodness it in your hearts & you will overcome anything! Niech Bóg błogosławi i zapewni wam bezpieczeństwo!

Loved the tour and commentary. Was fun and educational. The added memory lane for Ana was touching.

So good to see you are both feeling well again. Loved the video. I looked forward to Fridays I know I am going traveling. Kitchen closed is a great addition to your Polish your kitchen.

Thank you so much for visiting my native city!!! So many memories! So great to see it again... Dziekuje serdecznie Pani Aniu!

It's getting near time to make a trek to Poland including Stargard, just for the piwo and one of those herring sandwiches! Great review of the city as well as browar Stargard. Well done.

Wonderful episode. Enjoyed the city and your connection to it. You guys just make me smile. I'll be listening for the pet names now. 😊

Great Video I'm also from Stargard, lives in Kenosha, WI. Pozdrawiam!

Thank for another informative history tour of a city I never knew of. My mom told me her mom called her "Anja", not Anna", and that's cool, that you too are called so, Anna 🤗 amazing history there and your sandwiches... 😋 YUM!! IS LUCY home all day alone??😔as you travel??😳your a good tour guide Mark, and Anja, how nice for you to have a family history still there to remember and visit. Good day from Michigan 👋

Some pretty awesome history there. Love the Stargard City Brewery (Restaurant) portion. Although I’m not typically a beer drinker, it always looks delicious 😋 and those sandwiches...well unless you are schmaking your chops, your good to enjoy and us to watch! 😂 Not only am I learning to be a Polish Chef (in training), but learning the culture and history, I love it as I hated history in my school days 🤷🏻‍♀️ Blessing abundantly our Polish friends 💕

Thank you for sharing, my great Grandmother was from Warsaw ❤️ love watching your videos.

Awesome video!

I'm from Ełk but I haven't been back in Poland in almost 20 years. I stumbled upon your channel today and I'm absolutely going to binge on your videos!!

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

20 years?!! Time for a visit! :) Welcome! Hope you find it entertaining! :)

Great history. Beautiful town. Love herring, sandwich looked amazing! I have always wanted to go to Poland. I was in the Air Force spent alot of time in Europe never made it to Poland!

Loved seeing the old charm and the modern colourful facades.

Now that certainly is a place that I would love to visit for the history and my husband would love it for the Brewery. Thank you.

I loved the history lesson thank you so much ❤ you guys 💞

You two make a cute couple and makes the episode fun

Great video! Really enjoyed the tour and history.

That city hall house looks like a very big yummy weddingcake.

What a lovely visit. Thanks for taking us alone with you. It was beautiful to see.

You guys are the cutest couple!!! Anna, can you make a kolacz on your channel? My grandma used to make it. The bottom is a layer of bread dough and next layer is of a sweet farmers cheese mixture on top and on top of that black caraway seeds.

That was tons of fun. What I realized is that I need to go back to Poland 🇵🇱. I was there in January 1991 (don’t judge me I know I’m old, lol) right after the end of communism. But I only went to Warsaw, Krakow and Zakopane. Would love to go back

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

It’s time 😊

"little tiny town of 70 to 80 thousand". It made me laugh?? Thanks for your posts, love them🙋

So many memories ... dziekuje i pozdrawiam

4:25 The most beautiful medieval city gate is "Świecka" Gate in Chojna - 60km south west from Stargard.

Wonderful presentation! We can not wait until your new cookbook is printed. Wish we could have seen the inside of the Church; maybe later. Keep cooking, and don't forget the sour cream!!!

Thank you for the video. I visited 2 months ago for a week. Now my company in California is planning for me to move to Stargard for engineering work. I was born in Poland Mielec and moved to US at age 10. Been in US for 32 years. Now I am looking to move back to Poland. The job is in Stargard and I love the video you made to show me what I will be moving to. Thank you again! ❤

Droga pani Ania . Bardzo lubię wasze filmy mojego starego miasta. Ja wspominam sobie przechodzić te ulice jak byłam mała z mojim dziadkiem. Ja mieszkałam na Pogodnie. Good Luck to both of you.

Super 👍🏼 zapraszamy częściej , zwłaszcza latem, zobaczyć i wypocząć nad jeziorem Miedwie, można wejść na wieżę w kościele mariackim gdzie rozlega się widok na całe miasto, są koncerty, kino plenerowe i wiele różnych lokalnych atrakcji . Pozdrawiam serdecznie ❤

love watching you guys keep them coming from fellow Pole from Cracow Originally you are credit to both Nations and Mark greets from ex para from 6 th Pomeranian Airborne Brigade when i served it was a Division you guys are wonderful couple all the best in everything

So beautiful!!! Probably my favorite!!!

Thank you for the tour and I'm now craving that sandwich Anna!

love you both !! So glad you are both feeling better.

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! We are too ;)

moje miasto wyjechalem w 86, a ostatnio bylem w sierpniu 2001

Thank you! I loved this episode.

Thanks for yet another great video. Love the history... and the beer! :-)

Totally impressed with the Fresh Prince riff ( being a Philly girl and all), also love all the architecture esp. the church, I assume Roman Catholic not Eastern Orthodox? My favorite day of the week is Kitchens closed Friday! Love the nicknames, if my hubby calls me by my given name I know I am in trouble too, and he is Mr. Schmenkmen...who even remembers why after 30 years

LOVE YOU,S GUYS

awesome video love it you guys are so down to earth and Anna i feel your emotion about babacha i have the same emotion about my baba from ukraine .

Another great video you guys. I miss seeing red brick gothic buildings everywhere. However I have to disagree with the claim that Stargard's church is the most impressive in Western Pomerania. The one in Trzebiatow is the tallest in the region and it's church bell is one of the oldest in Poland. Either way good job. P.S. I am originally from Trzebiatow there's some regional bias.

Love the history 💝😊

Building with stone 26:24 It may be sad to you that some people spent all of their lives building with stone, on the other hand, some of us love working with stone. Dad, the family built a rock house out of the old stone wall surrounding some of our property. Dad worked with sone in one form or another most of his 96 years,- he loved working with stone and the looks of stone, and so do I, an old rock hound myself

@markhurning8051

3 жыл бұрын

Please don’t misunderstand me. I don’t think masonry work is sad. On the contrary i find it to be satisfying and noble work. What makes me sad is that for many of these projects people worked their entire lives on it, and died before seeing it finished. Some of these structures took generations to build. Cheers.

Brilliant video I loved it thank you for sharing

Beautiful.

It's very clean compared to other European cities I have been to.

Because I usually rely on direct flights and public transport, I have only been able to visit Krakow, Lublin, Gdansk, Sopot and Warsaw so far. I hope to see Wroclaw and perhaps Katowice once the plague has receded. I can get frozen pierogi and jars of bigps here but it’s a pale imitation (we have Polish restaurants too). Is there any big town to visit that you would particularly recommend to see in your particular voivodeship (apart from those that you have already shown)? Keep up the good work!

@maciejszymanski2386

3 жыл бұрын

There is no big town apart Szczecin in whole region. The second by population (Koszalin) is 100 000 inhabs. But small towns are worth visiting - 66 of them altogether. I can recommend seashore trip from Świnoujście to Darłowo; South-West part with cute medieval towns (Chojna, Moryń, Trzcińsko-Zdrój, Mieszkowice; former German and later Soviet military base Borne Sulinowo converted in 1993 into civil settlement + neigbouring towns of Szczecinek i Czaplinek (all three located in the woods by the big lakes).

@blackcrow4218

3 жыл бұрын

Toruń medieval city , Wrocław , Poznań , Katowice , there is so much places to see even the smaller ones, its good to search some on the internet .

@andyfergie

3 жыл бұрын

@@blackcrow4218 Thank you. Buses and trains in Poland can be an adventure in themself lol

@blackcrow4218

3 жыл бұрын

@@andyfergie I think they are good for me transport is better then in another countries in Europe 🙂

Where are you based at? You sound American, do you live in Poland? I ask because back in 2015, I wanted to hit the "Reset" button on my life, so I sold/donated to charity 95% of all my worldly possessions and got a one-way flight from my hometown of Salt Lake City, looking to restart my life somewhere in Europe, and hopefully find work teaching English (I taught high school in Utah for many years) and after travelling to several different countries sightseeing and enjoying the local culture, history and food & drink, I decided to go to Krakow for a week, to pay my respects at Auschwitz and just experience a new place that was totally unfamiliar to me. Long story short, that was nearly 6 years ago, and I am still here in beautiful, historic, safe, friendly and welcoming Krakow, and I am as happy as I have ever been in my entire life. I have been blessed with the opportunity to have travelled extensively in my life (20+ different countries, over 40 US states) but Poland is truly one of the world's "Undiscovered" gems, a wonderful country with a rich yet painful past but (in my opinion) a very, very bright future. Matthew

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Szczecin! I am Polish, and my husband is an American. We have been here for almost three years now enjoying our lives in Poland. Here is a link to our story. Thanks for watching! kzread.info/dash/bejne/eXihzahmZ9erqag.html

Great segment, as usual. Wonderful bits of commentary on history. I was just wondering why the statue of the conductor had a 'timetable'[?] headed Starogrod Poznan when the statue is quite clearly in Stargard which is over 250 km away?

Hi

My grandmother was boosha (phonetic spelling). Was that wrong?

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

Babcia is the correct term, but I’ve heard boosia used in America. Not sire why.

It's so SAD to see the American urban disease of GRAFFITI all over the beautiful buildings and historic monuments of Europe! As an American myself, from NYC where this horror began and eventually covered our subways completely, I offer my apologies to the rest of the world! Very sorry folks! PS: We eventually managed to clean up our trains, busses and buildings but the "scourge" never really went away! It shows up occasionally but now it IS quickly removed or covered over... THANK GOD!

@PolishYourKitchen

3 жыл бұрын

It drives Mark nuts too. We see freshly restored buildings all over Poland that some punk has decided to ruin for no good reason.

Germans were forced to leave. My grandparents (of German descent who resided in Poland and were well to do farmers) were forced to leave farm, property, personal belongings everything behind. And were never compensated for their losses. So you are saying Polish just moved into those properties during and after WWII?

@markhurning8051

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. The Potsdam Conference of 1945 moved the Polish border farther west. To some this was seen as compensation to the Polish people after Germany invaded Poland in 1945 and murderes millions of people. Remember Nazi Didn’t just hurt others, they invaded Germany first. Most likely your family fled the advancing Soviet Army well before the borders were moved. Many German families chose to leave than face the Russians.

@karinboesler236

3 жыл бұрын

Many law abiding Germans who were not communist lived and worked hard to build up their wealth and help support the polish people. By producing goods and services. They had nothing to do with WWII but ( lets not sweep this under the rug) were unjustly forced to leave all they had worked for. Good, hard working Christian people. Those that left and now were forced into East Germany were basically told to remain silent about how they were treated (many died it was cold, and they left w/horse and buggy it by foot) ( those of German nationality were put in horrible labor camps - and often died) so...there were innocent German people who were treated very badly. They did not cause the war. My mother's brother was taken by gunpoint from their farm in Poland and never heard from again. Sort of a kick in the butt considering they had a full working farm and had provided fresh produce, goods and services to the surrounding Polish communities.

@karinboesler236

3 жыл бұрын

Are they still doing weekly outside of kitchen travel deal? Fridays?

@markhurning8051

3 жыл бұрын

@@karinboesler236 we will be shortly. We got tires of freezing our nuggets off 😂. The weather is getting better daily and restaurants will be serving outside on May 15th so we will be back at it soon. Thanks for watching!

@blackcrow4218

3 жыл бұрын

@@karinboesler236 If there wasnt war they propobly will Lived there but that's how it was back then