Good Feast is appreciated in any culture of any epoch. This book is aimed at making every hostess the queen of the cookery kingdom, she really can make her guests keep in mind her feast for long!
Very few people knows, that the true borshch is a soup from cow-parsnip. The majority of people consider today this plant as a weed. In old times the broth from cow-parsnip on beet kvass were named a borshch.