Of course nowdays the meals are not so rich and even on Holidays they rarely reach 12,18 or 24 dishes as it was at previous times. Nevertheless there is still a great variety of them. Many of dishes can be called national ones. Potatoes are very popular and considered to be another kind of bread for Belarusians. They know about a hundred potato dishes.
Pork tops the meat list.
Milk - fresh, sour, sour cream, and cottage cheese. Then jellies, fruit salads, apples, fresh and marinated, and tomatoes with cucumbers, salted down for the winter. Belarusian national drinks are birch juice and kvass. There is also a number of alcoholic drinks typical to Belarus. Because the food of different countries, like thier clothes and traditions bring unique and distinctive features to the nation.