Polish Festival in Riverhead, N.Y<\/a>.<\/strong> It’s the 36th year for the street, arts, food, and polka festival that supports many community charities.<\/p>\nPierogies (or Pierogi) are the Slavic answer to ravioli.<\/strong> Every culture the world-over has an item where unleavened dough is stuffed with fillings. Beside raviolis, Indians have samosas, Spanish have empanadas, Chinese have wontons, Japanese have dumplings.<\/p>\nThe Pierogi is like a big ravioli, most often filled with mashed potatoes, sauteed onions, and grated cheese.<\/strong> However, they’re also stuffed with cabbage or ground meats, and can be an inspiration for anything you create in your kitchen.<\/p>\nExplore your culinary cultural heritage<\/strong>. What items did grandma make “from the old country” that you can incorporate into your diet and pass the heritage to your children? Perhaps you can update some of those family recipes to include healthier ingredients and simple cooking methods so all generations are happy!<\/p>\nI’m interested in your family’s cultural meals. Please comment below and share with everyone.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explore your culinary cultural heritage by visiting a food festival like the Polish Festival in Riverhead, N.Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":14579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[300,301,306],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6744"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webcookingclasses.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}