One of the oldest Polish soups, dating to the Middle Ages, wonderfully versatile with a hundred options for meat lovers as well as vegetarians, not only thick and filling but healthy and low-calorie! So why is it in the shadow of rosół or even pomidorowa ? Agnieszka Bielawska and Elżbieta Krajewska consider all the good things about comfort food barley broth krupnik (sometimes referred to with the diminutive krupniczek).