Nowadays, no matter what our ancestry, our kids want to eat chicken satay as they do in the cafe down the street, our spouses want to serve a pesto as good as the one sampled on vacation in Liguria ...

I came across a version of this in a Facebook post — it was called “Monday Soup,” and was said to have been found in a Russian cookbook called “Kachka” by Portland, Oregon-based chef Bonnie Frumkin ...