When we ask kids today where meat and eggs come from, they will answer - from the shop. It is good that at least they do not think that milk comes from a violet cow. Lucky are those people who have families living in the countryside and can show their children a cow at pasture, a pig in a pigsty and a chicken pecking for grain. Unfortunately, such villages are seldom found.

Therefore, we should appreciate places where time has stopped and in which you may see the past in a realistic environment. One such place is Wielkopolski Ethnographical Park (colloquially called heritage park) in Dziekanowice. The majority of the buildings placed there are original. They were relocated from many villages around Poland, where they were taken apart, secured and built once again in the new place. Thanks to this, a new village has been set up where you can find everything you need to live. There are buildings constructed in many different architectural styles, including outbuildings, a church, a presbytery, a smithy and even an inn.

It is amazing how well cared for the place is, and the attention to detail is stunning. Interiors are decorated with folk paintings, furniture creaking from old age and kitchen equipment that looks like somebody just finished cooking.  To make the village even more realistic, behind the houses there are fields, a bee-garden, cabbage beds and orchards. Walking thorough the park, I sometimes had the impression that Kargul and Pawlak might emerge at any moment from one of the houses and start knocking pots off fences and cutting up the sleeves of shirts drying in the wind.

There are certain combinations which always hold good. There are dishes which save us when surprise guests drop in. Chocolate mousse with raspberries, which always turns out well, doesn't need many sophisticated ingredients and you can make it with different kinds of fruit.

Ingredients (for two people):

150g of raspberries

1 teaspoon of caster sugar

100g of mascarpone cheese

100g of natural yoghurt

We have known for a long time that some people should not have children. Unfortunately, unpredictable fortune endows such people with children easily and light-heartedly. Within such families only youngsters with big determination can become good people. The titular Matilda in the book by Roald Dahl has just such a will to fight by using her superior intelligence. The book won the distinction of best book for children in 1988, and I completely don't understand why I came across it only today. But better late than never.

In the home of a couple of stupid, dishonest and greedy parents there lives a real diamond. This sensitive, clever young girl does not find support from her closest relatives and learns how to read and do complicated mathematical tasks on her own. She discovers at the same time a taste for revenge. Under the friendly eye of a librarian she explores literature, starting from children's fiction and ending with classics by Dickens and Hemingway. Finally, she goes to school where she meets two extremely different kinds of personality; the delightful  teacher, Miss Honey, and the authoritarian and cruel headmistress, Miss Trunchbull. Matilda also uses her intelligence and extraordinary skills at school to punish wicked adults. "Matilda" is a book for everybody; a happy, smiling lesson which is ideal for a summer holiday afternoon with children. The value of it will be recognized by intelligent adults as well. This book should be obligatory for anyone whose intention is the enlargement of their family, and for these adults who think that being an adult gives them the right to speak down to children. The book teaches us that little people also have intelligence, ideas, and determination, which adults do not expect them to have. What can a small child understand after all.....

The broad bean is one of the oldest cultivated plants. Seeds of this plant were found in archeological digs of Troy, the bronze age and the Middle Ages. It was an irreplaceable food for paupers – nourishing, cheap and easy to store. Today broad beans are eaten  in China, where it has been grown for 5,000 years. Half of the global crop comes from Chinese fields.

The broad bean is very valuable product for vegetarians because it contains a lot of protein, fibre, vitamins B1,B2, PP A and C.

Not many people know that in Egypt it was offered as a sacrifice for the dead (it was a sign of death) and was dedicated to happy couples who wanted a male heir.

We used to eat broad beans simply cooked in light salted water. This time I have added them to a salad. They taste fantastic with dried tomatoes and fresh cucumber.

We probably all sometimes think about what the world will look like in the future, how our planet will surprise us and what we will do for or against it.

In the future shown in the movie "Interstellar" by Christopher Nolan, the people are focused only on their survival. Mistakes made by people in the past have caused a long-lasting drought and, as a consequence, hunger. The main goal of humankind is to produce enough food for everyone. A group of scientists under the leadership of professor Brand (Michael Cane) finds a spatiotemporal tunnel. They organize intergalactic journeys which may help to find a second home for the people of Earth. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA pilot, currently a farmer and the father of two kids, finds the professor's scientific base. There he must make a difficult decision which will mean permanent separation from his kids and participation in the Endurance spaceship journey, which is crucial for the fate of humankind. He is accompanied by professor Brand's daughter, Amelia, (Anne Hathaway) and two scientists: Doyle (Wes Bentley) and Romilly (David Gyasi).

I have read many differing extreme opinions about this movie. The majority are positive, but I found a few extremely negative views as well. The movie received many award nominations and won the Oscar for the best special effects and six Saturn rewards, i.e. for music, screenplay, scenography and the best sci-fi movie. I decided to watch it to form my own opinion. The movie is surprising on many grounds. Despite the unusual subject, the spectacular special effects did not dominate this movie but emphasized its attractiveness.