May 01, 1996

Just What the Doctor Ordered


Just What the Doctor Ordered

 

Though just about everyone has heard of Russia’s most famous soup, borshch, few people know that it was named after a weed. The borshchevik, as it was called, was the universal ingredient used by early Russian peasants when they made soup.


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