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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

The story of borshch

Borshch
Berlin, Maria Tkach, 89

Ingredients: beef stock, potato, cabbage, beetroot, onion, carrot, tomato, ginger, salo, garlic, bay leaf, coriander seed and a pinch of monosodium glutamate

"There's no particular Jewish borshch; the only difference is we wouldn't use pork"
Photograph: Justin Jin/Guardian
Borshch
Moscow, Shinok resturant

A good, rich, stocky soup, but with an extra ingredient - good quality steak. The 'peasant girl' and farm animals are just props at this Ukranian-themed eaterie
Photograph: Justin Jin/Guardian
Borshch
Kiev, Puzata Khata restaurant

Ingredients: water, potato, cabbage, beetroot, tomato, onion, carrot, bay leaf.

The fast food chain serves up to a tonne of borshch every day
Photograph: Justin Jin/Guardian
Borshch
Poltava, Ukraine, Yulia Gavrilenko

Ingredients: pork stock, beetroot, carrot, potato, tomato, cabbage, kvass

"I've always been cooking this since I was 11", Yulia says
Photograph: Justin Jin/Guardian
Borshch
Serving up the borshch in Kiev's Puzata Khata restaurant Photograph: Justin Jin/Guardian
Borshch
Even the goats like borshch in Moscow's Shinok restaurant Photograph: Justin Jin/Guardian
Borshch
Yulia Gavrilenko's family eating borshch in Poltava, Ukraine Photograph: Justin Jin/Guardian
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