Who knew that his audience would confuse the operation with a borsch belt joke?
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Flavourful soups and stews include shchi, borsch, ukha, solyanka and okroshka.
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Try a bowl of Ukrainian green borsch soup made from sorrel or a chicken Kiev.
From the independent.co.uk
Mr Mamet added vaudeville-inspired dialogue and a borsch-belt buddy bond between Messrs De Niro and Hoffman.
From the economist.com
It was 6 p.m., and Moscow's Pushkin Square was thronged with workers heading homeward for their evening borsch.
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Served with soups such as borsch.
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Long-simmering rumors about Leonid Brezhnev's failing health boiled up last week into a wild journalistic borsch of speculation.
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For lunch, fiery vodka shots with pickled cucumber on the side before a meal of rich borsch with pampushka bread and sour cream is to die for.
From the couriermail.com.au
Russian vodka and caviar are among the food that attracts foreigners, along with honey, blini, pelmeni, borsch and other products and dishes.
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A Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
Borscht is a tart soup popular in several East European cuisines, including Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Romanian and Ashkenazi Jewish. The variety most commonly associated with the name in English is of Ukrainian origin and includes beetroots as one of the main ingredients, which gives the dish a distinctive red color...