What is certain is that beetroot soup is seen by many as "the pride of old Polish cooking" as Maria Lemnis, author of a work on traditional Polish cooking refers to it. From Sevastopol to Szczecin, they claim the dish as their own, but I think Lesley Chamberlain, former Reuters correspondent for Moscow and a woman who's found the time to write two books on the food of the region in between works on Nietzsche, the river Volga and the downfall of communism, puts it best, and certainly most diplomatically, with her description of a "babble" of Eastern European recipes which makes it "difficult to say which dish belongs where". In Poland, it's barszcz, while in Lithuania, they call it barščiai. Calling this beetroot soup a Polish classic is as inflammatory as an evening on the sliwowica – for a start, the name we generally know it by in this country, borscht, is Russian.
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