Nobody puts Brooklyn in a corner. The heyday of the Jewish Catskills may have come and gone, but this summer, New Yorkers have the chance to party Borscht Belt-style — without time-traveling or ...

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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 ...

Dear SOS: In the heat of August, I stopped for lunch at Paper or Plastik Cafe. I had the most amazing cold borscht. It was light and refreshing and full-flavored and, like my bubby’s, only distilled ...

Sometimes I shop for groceries with a specific recipe in mind, but more often I head to the market and let the ingredients speak to me. A recent trip had me loading my bags with a gorgeous array of ...

⭐ Members at the Supporter tier and higher can enter to win a pair of free tickets! Winners will be contacted via email on July 3rd Celebrate the dedication of a new historical marker in the Catskills ...

From the 1920s to the late 1960s, the Catskill Mountains were the tourist destination for tens of thousands of New Yorkers, primarily Jews, seeking an escape from the clatter and chaos of city life.

Beets are packed with nutrition and are a main ingredient of borscht, a Ukrainian beet soup. Deb Lindsey Deb Lindsey/The Washington Post At a recent lunch, friends and I were discussing foods we saw ...

The best borscht I ever had was in a punk house the summer before I turned 18. At that point, I’d been on my own for nearly two years, living with whomever would take me after my mom left town, ...

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 ...