The limitations put up forces you to go hunt for smaller, and sometimes fringe restaurants, located off the beaten path run by passionate people.

A lot of the more recent examples of Polish cuisine are dishes originally invented out of poverty and made largely out of cheap ingredients and which now took a new form using stuff unheard of at the time because the real recipe is not to contemporary taste.

My favourite example of that would be cold cheesecake - originally made largely from cottage cheese, nowadays has mascarpone as the main ingredient.

Mascarpone! Hardly anyone knew what mascarpone even was in the 70s.

Most superfoods are what we ate when we were poor growing up. Nettles, collards, mustard greens, kale...

My opinion, the word superfood, gets people to pay a premium for cheap and easily commercially grown plants.

I have nettle tea every morning and now thinking about the standard black tea, I see that as "bland/boring". I admit it didn't appeal at first, but now I love the earthy taste, so maybe it's slightly acquired taste?

I haven't tried nettles yet, mostly because people say it's bland and there's so much else to choose from. In particular, nettle season is also meadowsweet season, and that is incredibly good. It's in the same taste family as vanilla, almond and cinnamon but it's its own unique thing.

The problem is all the thin skin (ankles, wrists, lower leg/arm) that you are very likely to graze them with.