Growing up in Ukraine, San Francisco chef and blogger Anna Voloshyna ate a bright pink, kefir-based cold borscht called kholodnyk — kholod means cold in Ukrainian — to cool off during the ...

There was a time when I would scoff at those little packages of precooked beets next to the boxed salad greens at the grocery store. Why pay a premium for extra plastic when it’s easy to cook raw ...

Sweaty Season is fully upon us once again, and unfortunately, it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Turning on the stove may be a dealbreaker, but let’s face it: You can only eat so much salad before ...

Given the times we are living in, I want to share one of my most treasured cold-weather recipes with you. Preparing this helps me to send prayers to those Ukrainians who are suffering so much. It may ...

Borscht is often served cold, but this version is warm and comforting. It’s perfect for a chilly winter day.

There is an old Ukrainian proverb that states: "Borscht is the center of everything." Two weeks after the war in Ukraine started, I met Daria Antonovska. When we first met, she had been a student at ...

GHENT, N.Y. — The challenge seemed simple enough: Take the motley crew of beets I managed to extract from my garden this summer and turn them into borscht, the hearty Ukrainian beet soup. So, I went ...

I love borscht—or borsch, depending on who's doing the spelling—but my past borscht encounters have generally been the kind with beets and other stuff, like the purplish-brown soup bobbing with ...

The beet-based soup borscht, along with gumbo, gazpacho and goulash, is easily one of the great soups of the world. Moreover, Tom Birchard, owner of Veselka, a Ukrainian restaurant in New York (where ...