Food & Drink Apr 22, 2015 at 4:00 am

Sebi's Bistro Serves Pillowy Dumplings and Other Polish Treats

The food is not light, but it is rich and comforting. Kelly O

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Yeah, I can't imagine why someone doing their best to emulate the Polish cooking they grew up with in Poland would use the same farmed Atlantic salmon that they were used to using back in Poland over the local wild salmon...

Angela, as a food writer certainly you know that farmed Atlantic salmon has a different flavor profile than wild Pacific salmon. Bitching about this is similar to bitching about Thai cooks using Thai chiles rather than the local jalapeños. I have NO issue with a chef wanting to use ingredients they are familiar with.
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Ok I know it's pedantic, but while the Russian "Piróg" (singular) and "Pirogí" (plural) do mean pie, they don't refer to what the Polish call Pierógi. Rather they are made with either a yeast dough or a sour cream pastry and baked, not boiled. The Russians and Ukrainians call those boiled dumplings Vareniki. At least according to my very well-worn copy of Please To The Table (totes excellent Russian cookbook. Anyone who likes this kind of food should have it).
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Varenyky or pierogi? Pierogi is a Polish word, but other than that, the difference is tenuous. A dumpling is a dumpling. Varenyky are typically boiled, and pierogi tend to be boiled, and then baked or fried. More importantly, Sebi's appears to have 50% pierogis on Mondays (hopefully, that includes Memorial Day).

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