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Jews from the region that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now Ukraine made red borscht and the sorrel variety - it was called shav. My grandmother used to have a jar of shav in her refrigerator in New York.

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In Ukrainian, which shares many words with Yiddish (not sure if this is one, but it feels likely), sorrel is called шавель (pronounced: schavel). So that makes perfect sense! I love the way the soup is such a cultural marker for the start of spring.

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Haven't had me some borscht in a while...just might have to now!

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It is soup season after all...how do you prepare yours?

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What a delicious way to read a recipe!

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My husband is Latvian. Every family, in the old country and the diaspora, adds their own influences to this wonderful soup. Haven't tasted a dud yet!

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