Reader response to last week's column about my Polish grandmother's beet soup underscores the maxim that old recipes for ethnic foods are unique to families. The barszcz (Polish for borscht) I first ...

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 ...

TAMPA (BLOOM) – Cooking for longevity can be easy and delicious. Longevity Dietitian and Gut Health Expert Ella Davar, RD, who is the author of “Healthy Cooking For High Performers” joins Gayle ...

Beet soup, or borscht, is a classic Russian dish, but the ruby-red potage might even be more popular in Poland. That’s why Edward Kutas has barszcz (pronounced “basht”) in a prominent place on the ...

My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than ...

When sweet and sour converge in a bowl of ruby red borscht, the union is one of beautiful beet perfection. Stripped down, borscht is beet soup, but there are as many versions of borscht as there are ...

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 ...

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.