If you look up the world barszcz in the dictionary, two meanings are listed: firstly, barszcz is a soured soup (zupa na zakwasie) or a portion of this soup; secondly, it’s hogweed – a plant with big ...

This doesn’t mean there are no traditional recipes here: on the contrary, in the first chapter, we can find 10 recipes for barszcz alone (including Belarussian, Podolski and Wołyński), as well as half ...