Ukrainian borscht with dark bread, garlic and sour cream made by Marina Yusim at her home in Studio City. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) “In Ukraine, we were Jews. In America, we are Russians.

A chef famous in Ukraine for championing the nation's cuisine sees his cooking as part of the anti-Russian resistance. To Ukraine now, where people have mostly stayed calm amidst the threat of a ...

In 1584, a German merchant traveled to Kyiv, at the time under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In his diary, he mentions a beetroot-based borsch—the earliest known reference to the dish. But ...

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 ...

Her Ukrainian borscht always turns out excellent – with a hearty mix of meat, beets and cabbage and that signature, deep reddish purple-hued broth that’s cherished by anyone who loves a good bowl of ...

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CARPINTERIA, Calif. - The deep red beet Borscht soup sold for just one week in Carpinteria, turned into a generous green donation of cash for a special Ukrainian relief fund. The idea was brought to ...

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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 ...