This was written after a visit to family in Ząb.

After lunch, a walk was in order. The first stop was a bacókwa — a place where shepherds, through a bit of black magic and probably less-than-ideally sanitary processes, convert sheep milk into oscypek . . .

oscypek— traditional highlander smoked sheep-milk cheese. These oscupki are in their "raw" form.	To smoke the cheese, it's placed on a small shelf (see below) just inside the only hole in the roof (which, logically enough, acts as a chimney and virtually draws the smoke out).
Fire place The edge of the fireplace with a caldron of souring sheep's milk.	The presiding shepherd offered everyone a bit of sheep's milk, with four variables: hot, cold, sweet, and sour, served in fashionable wooden mugs.

Oscypek actually turned out to be the center of a virtual war not long ago. It had to do with membership criteria for the European Union — namely, cleanliness standards for food production. In the end it was discovered that membership in the EU would not necessitate the undoing of the traditional (and let's face it — based on the pictures above, unsanitary) method of production. It's a regional product and will stay here, but will not be exported (unless of course it's produced in an environment that meets EU standards, I guess).

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