title: Culinary identity as the determinant of cultural distinctiveness in Silesia and the Vilnius Region
abstract: The article focuses on two basic questions: the problem of ethnic and cultural identity, and the linguistic and cultural interpretation of the culinary semantic scene. The analysis includes various ways of how the Silesian and the Vilnius region cuisines have been perceived in Poland in the 19 th and 20 th centuries. Particular attention has been paid to the most important determinants of culinary identity seen as distinct components of the Silesian and Vilnius region cultural communities. The a