Hence, my beet soup is called just that, soup, not borscht, even though it shares certain ingredients -- potatoes, carrots, parsnips, beef stock and vinegar -- with the traditional soup. But there's ...

Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Doug Simon, executive chef and owner of The Casino prepares quarts of borscht to sell. The soup is typically served cold, but Simon opted to make a hot beef borscht ...

Almost every country has a signature dish anchored deep in its culture by way of ingredients that express its land, climate and character. In Ukraine, that dish is borsch: a sweet and sour beet soup ...

I spent my early childhood in Shanghai, where my food tastes and preferences got an early jump start, thanks to my grandmothers — mom’s mother Granny, from Iraq; and Baba, my father’s Russian mother.

Russia's Soviet days are well behind it, but if you're headed to Sochi for the Winter Olympics, your dining options will still run deep red — as in borscht. Organizers in Sochi expect to serve 70,000 ...

Borscht or beet soup is today’s topic. Some of you may have never tasted this soup but in many Slavic and eastern European countries it is the “soup du jour.” It has also become popular in the United ...

Borscht or beet soup is today’s topic. Some of you may have never tasted this soup but in many Slavic and eastern European countries it is the “soup du de jour.” It has also become popular in the ...

Dear Neighbors: I am looking for a recipe for Chile Relleno Casserole. I remember all the ingredients, (eggs, milk, salt, Bisquick, cheddar cheese and Ortega chilies) but don’t remember any of the ...

Borscht. The very name evokes an older world, a simpler time when people ate food grown in the ground on which they walked. It’s almost hard not to picture the peasant farmer-cook pulling up beets, ...

Borscht has been on my mind lately, in part because Hanukkah began so early this year and a colleague wrote a piece about her annual fete, which always includes borscht, and in part because there were ...