Originally posted by Curval
Well salted pork fat...I could probably eat that. Is it like pork rinds?
It's just salted pork fat. Most famous Ukrainian food. It's several centimeters thick, and you eat it with black bread, putting thin slices of salo on it. It's really tasty. Real salo just melts in your mouth. It's mot smoked, not prepared in any other way - it just gets wrapped with cloth and salt. It gets salted inside. Hungarians add pepper to salt too. Good salo has a shade of pink when you cut it. It has to be cold, so you can slice it like cheese.
Originally posted by Curval
I know of "borcht" (sp?)...the beet soup Russia is famous for...what other Russian foods are there? I genuinely don't know. I'm basically a meat/potato/pasta/veggies type.
"Borsch" is a hard word to spell in Latin letters

In Cyrillic it's "במנש". In fact it's a Ukrainian soup. Katsaps (Russians) can't cook real borsch. My Mother is Ukrainian, so I know that almost any "borsch" cooked by katsaps is only a fake

They are limited to a cabbige soup they call "schi" (שט).
It looks easy - fry vegetables on a pan and then boil them in a meat boulion (sp?), but it is an Art, and without experience and inspiration you'll never make it right.
Hmmm... A glass of cold vodka before hot borsch with black bread, and, immediately - another one! After this you feel the real taste of food, and you meal becomes a real pleasure!
Grr. I am getting hungry when I write such things

Ukrainian cuisine is different from Russian, and it's famous not for using different expencive stuff like caviar, but for making great dishes from ordinary ingredients.