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Polish strawberry pasta: Wimbledon star Iga Swiatek's divisive favorite meal

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<div><strong>Source: Reuters</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>Mikolaj Pietrzak, cook at Adam Gessler Restaurant:</strong></div><p>&quot;Pasta, sugar, mixed strawberries, fresh strawberries, and a bit of yogurt or maybe some sour cream.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><p>&quot;Oh yeah, yeah, if you are Italian and you heard we mix pasta with strawberries that would be, &#x27;oh, oh my God, I can&#x27;t listen to that.&#x27; But in Poland, we have the season for strawberries and we have a lot of them. I think that was our grandmas who thought that they would mix it because kids don&#x27;t like meat and don&#x27;t like eating vegetables, so they think they will mix pasta with strawberries. They put some sugar in it, and that works.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><p>&quot;When you get older, we still love this taste because it reminds us of our childhood.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><p>&quot;If you want to feel like Polish kids 40 or 50 years ago, you must try it.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>Customer:</strong></div><p>&quot;Well, just like Iga Swiatek, with childhood.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><p>As tennis star Iga Swiatek savored her first Wimbledon victory, back in her home country, people were celebrating with a different kind of serving - pasta with strawberries.</p><p>In a suburb south of Warsaw, chef Mikolaj Pietrzak dishes up this quirky Polish comfort food, a far cry from the strawberries and cream traditionally enjoyed at the All England club in southwest London.</p><p>After Swiatek&#x27;s third round win over Danielle Collins, the 24-year-old Pole described the dish as a childhood favorite, saying: &quot;I have my favorite actually, I ate it as a kid and it is pasta with strawberries.&quot;</p><p>The dish features pasta topped with strawberries, sugar and yoghurt or sour cream and has its roots in Polish grandmothers&#x27; culinary creativity, Pietrzak says.</p><p>&quot;If you are Italian and you heard we mix pasta with strawberries that would be, &#x27;oh, oh my God,&#x27;&quot; Pietrzak jokes. But, for many Poles, it&#x27;s a nostalgic childhood summertime favourite.</p><p>With a bowl of this unusual dish setting you back 25 zl (USD 6.90 / EUR 5.90), it&#x27;s also an affordable summer treat.</p><p>Swiatek bulldozed her way to a maiden Wimbledon title on Saturday (July 12), brutally dismantling Amanda Anisimova 6-0 6-0 in the final to confirm herself as a versatile virtuoso of the women&#x27;s game.</p><p>(Production: Kuba Stezycki, Thomas Holdstock)</p>

<p>Tennis star Iga Swiatek's favorite meal - pasta with strawberries - is a delight.</p>

Tennis star Iga Swiatek's favorite meal - pasta with strawberries - is a delight.

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Polish strawberry pasta: Wimbledon star Iga Swiatek's divisive favorite meal

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Published Jul 15, 2025 07:50 AM PHT

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