Culinary researcher Asami Kuchio, who is also a photo essayist, creates recipes inspired by dishes she comes across while traveling overseas. In Lithuania she found the perfect dish: chilled ...

Beets of all varieties (red, gold, striped Chioggia) are the sweetest member of the vegetable kingdom. Their natural sugars work almost like an antifreeze, lowering the freezing point of water in the ...

Note: You can vary the vegetables in this creamy cream-free soup and play with the seasonings, too. A dollop of whole-milk yogurt can give it a silky body, if desired. The soup reheats beautifully; ...

Originally cultivated in the Middle East, beets may be popular among trendy chefs and foodies alike but suffer all sorts of indignities because of their strong earthy flavors. Often compared to metal, ...

Forget the traditional cabbage soup diet! A 2023 study reveals a new diet soup diet with borscht-inspired beet soup that not only accelerates weight loss but also increases muscle strength by 350 ...

I don't much go for the trappings of Valentine's Day, but I do appreciate the excuse to cook something brilliantly, undeniably pink. Most often that means playing with beets, and this year I'm ...

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 ...

I've always been very proud of my half-Icelandic, half-Irish heritage. I grew up in Dublin with a sister, an Irish father and a mother from Iceland. I count myself fortunate in that ours was a happy ...

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.

Vilnius, Lithuania, hosts the vibrant Pink Soup Fest, a celebration of the beloved beetroot soup šaltibarščiai that drew 93,000 visitors in 2025. The festival features pink-themed parades, costumes, ...