“Lithuania step back, it’s Latvia’s game,” the rap from Riga’s tourism agency goes. “This cold beet soup, we’re claiming the fame. Pink soup’s from Latvia, get it through your head.

The health benefits of beet leaves, packed with nutritional value in a humble culinary form, are immense. Is making ...

It calls for young beets, their leaves and stalks, soured milk (buttermilk or kefir), acid beet juice (zakwas), freshly chopped ... which nowadays is a luxury. The soup is called 'Lithuanian' because ...

The early culinary practices described below date back from that era up until the 13th century, when the Polish and Lithuanian ... A certain sour soup prepared with hogweed was called barszcz. The ...