Unlike many other national cuisine, it is difficult to find in the Polish tradition truly "original" polish dishes. The development of the Polish cuisine has been influenced by the historical transformations. During centuries it was changing. The best known influences are German, French, Oriental, Russian, Italian and Jewish.

Polish cuisine is characterized by a very strong regionalism, resulting from the period of country partition. Different regions have specific meals - for example, associated with Silesia: pork soup(rosół), "Warsaw" tripe soup(flaki) and pork coutlet with cabbage and potatoes, or in Lublin dumplings(pierogi) with white cheese and buckwheat. In the whole country and even some places abroad the best known and associated with Poland dish, is sauerkraut stew-meal made from sausages and mushrooms(bigos).