Posted on 07/01/2022 2:13:42 PM PDT by McGruff
Ukraine's culture of cooking borsch, the hearty soup with beets and cabbage, has made it to UNESCO's list of heritage traditions "in need of urgent safeguarding" because of Russia's invasion.
Often written borscht in English, the soup is widely eaten across Eastern Europe and is extremely common in Russia. But Ukraine considers it a national dish, or as UNESCO put it: "part of the fabric of Ukrainian society, cultural heritage, identity and tradition."
"The victory in the war for borsch is ours!" Ukraine's Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko posted on Telegram, declaring the soup to be "officially" Ukrainian. "Remember and be sure: We will win this war like we did the war for borsch."
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Ate it in Poland as well.
The UN has nothing better to do? This was its original intent, to comment on cooking style?
NO BLOOD FOR BORSCH!
Was it pretty good? Is it tomato soup with beets and cabbage in it?
Borsch is Ukrainian—and Russian, Polish, and Jewish—perhaps other nationalities as well!
We used to serve a very vegetable rich, piping-hot version (with beans, too) of borsch (not just beets) at the bazaar of my OCA Church. Whether it was Russian or Ukrainian, I don’t know. But it was very good!!!
May God end this war in the way that He choses, and bring an end to killing, destruction. and biden/obama meddling in the region! Then neither borsch—nor the peoples in the region—will be endangered!!!!
I have too many bad memories of mom making us eat beets when we were kids.
My mom made me eat cauliflower. Once!
oh noes! pierogi genocide!
I find no distinction between Russian or Ukrainian Borscht.
Some folks use beef...but pork is cheaper.
Doesn't taste one bit like tomato soup.
insanity
No,
It is beets (beets make Borscht!) with other stuff.
Cabbage and tomato, onion and carrots, potato, sour cream, whipping cream, stock, leftover meats and sausages.
Basically beets with everything you may find in the house.
The Ukrainian is by far the richest, the Polish and Jewish is clean. Russian somewhere in between.
Recipes vary form region to region, from household to household and really by what happens to be in the pantry/fridge right now.
“This was its original intent, to comment on cooking style?”
No, their original intent was to provide a framework for global government.
My Uncle Ernie is smiling from Heaven.
Spicy beet. Clear.
Russian Borsch is much better than Ukrainian. My Dneiperpetrovsk relatives admit it!
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am willing to pay $5, $10, even more for a gallon of gas, so Ukrainian borsch isn’t lost to the world! And Biden should send them another billion!
Hmmm, if they (the Ukrainian’s) don’t like it who should care?
Must be popular with the folks in the part of the Ukraine that was stolen from Poland.
\”The Institute of National Remembrance estimates that 100,000 Poles were killed by the Ukrainian nationalists (40,000–60,000 victims in Volhynia, 30,000–40,000 in Eastern Galicia and at least 4,000 in Lesser Poland, including up to 2,000 in the Chełm region).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia#:~:text=The%20Institute%20of%20National%20Remembrance,2%2C000%20in%20the%20Che%C5%82m%20region).
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