Borscht "Diez" translates to Borscht Ten, and the whole festival kicked off with a Viking funeral—every Borscht film was placed on a hard drive and set aflame.
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When I was younger, I would eat Borscht (or WANT to eat Borscht) every single day.
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"Borscht Diez was our death and funeral, Borscht 0 is our rebirth," chairman Brett Potter tells Hyperallergic.
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In Kryjivka, and indeed in Lviv, there is no such thing as 'Ukrainian borscht,' there is only borscht.
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Tickets to Borscht DIEZ at the Olympia Theater are available here, and tickets to the rest of the Borscht events are here.
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Though I appreciate borscht simmered with a meaty soup bone, I sometimes crave a clean, lighter-tasting vegetarian red borscht, quickly cooked in a makes-its-own broth kind of way.
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Who wants to ask around — who had the borscht?
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Dear Saint Jude was the official saint of the velorio (Spanish for "wake") and funeral for Borscht Diez, the film festival's tenth edition—it seems there was nothing that could've saved Borscht.
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Marisa Scheinfeld Scheinfeld is the author of The Borscht Belt.
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Savor it, maybe with a vodka and a nice borscht.
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We ordered borscht, which she applauded as a good plan.
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What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
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And the borscht belt comics did jokes about being Jewish.
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Comedians who worked the circuit called it the Borscht Belt.
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It all leads into the theme of this year's Borscht Film Festival, Borscht DIEZ, which actually means "ten" in Spanish: living in a city that's dying, whose death many of us could live to see.
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Essays on moonshine, the borscht belt and folk music are included.
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" He said at the time they were just "Borscht belt jokes.
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There is limpid ruby-red borscht broth, served hot or cold.
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Most people agree that borscht should veer toward the tart side.
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With Ammy Garcia's GIF-y visuals of anime angels and the ever-present Borscht ouroboros (a gator eating a snake eating a gator eating a snake) as a backdrop, the Borscht crew bid their fair festival farewell.
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The biggest difficulty I've faced as a Russian has been missing borscht.
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" Its lineup includes Kiwi Chia Pudding and Baby Borscht: "Superfoods for Superbabies.
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Even in places like the Catskills, once known as the borscht belt.
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Is there a more perfect way to eat beets than in borscht?
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New York-based photographer Marisa Scheinfeld grew up in the Borscht Belt.
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Borscht with little dumplings and sweet pierogi will also be on the menu.
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Borscht, for example, because they use the potato in a very similar way.
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If the borscht belt is what you're after, don't come to Hudson Woods.
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The borscht belt comics weren't drawing a distinction between themselves and the audience.
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Now, worldwide, flavors range from dill pickle to scallop with butter to borscht.
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I will neuter all your pet dogs and fill your swimming pools with borscht!
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He has otherwise spent his time gardening, making borscht and writing in his diary.
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Call it the Borscht Shelf: Gary Shteyngart, Boris Fishman and the resplendent Lara Vapnyar.
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Polish borscht is strained, and the version at Pierozek has the clarity of consommé.
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She wound up sounding more like a Borscht Belt comedian than a presidential candidate.
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Village Cafe's hot borscht, strong and decidedly unvegetarian, outperforms some I've had in Brighton Beach.
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Grossinger's Resort, another Borscht Belt hotspot, was once known as the "Waldorf in the Catskills."
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There's an old Borscht Belt joke: A customer in the deli calls his waiter over.
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It's a Borscht Belt gag, but, then, Abby's whole life feels like a punch line.
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And quite a lot of cold borscht was served in that era before air-conditioning.
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The important part of making borscht is getting the sweet-to-sour balance just right.
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"So much that was previously unimaginable is happening," Borscht co-founder, Lucas Leyva, tells Creators.
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Borscht at Kryjivka, generously stocked with pork and fortifying vegetables, gives no hint of wartime privation.
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He looks and talks like a resort standup working the Borscht Belt -- but without the jokes.
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Arguably the most-hyped event of Borscht Diez, the festival's tenth edition, was the Coral Orgy.
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Like the old borscht belt joke, the food is lousy and the portions are so small.
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"Borscht Belt" resorts in the Catskills went out of style and have sat abandoned for decades.
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Borscht Belt resorts, where they often stayed, accommodated up to 150,000 guests a year, she wrote.
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I was talking about borscht the other day with a friend — you know, as one does.
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Sherman-Palladino's own father, Don Sherman, was a comic right out of the borscht-belt old school.
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Jillian Mayer's "ARROWS" and "MEASUREMENTS" debuted at the Borscht Film Festival, Miami, and are now on YouTube.
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They turned it into a bastion of matzo brei, borscht and corned beef, served in generous portions.
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From there, he traveled Australia's equivalent of the borscht belt circuit, singing at High Holy Days services.
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Can she get close enough to kill him before she's forced to eat his vile-looking borscht?
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Recipe: Vegetarian Red Borscht Follow NYT Food on Twitter and NYT Cooking on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.
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While borscht recipes vary depending on the chef, many versions call for vegetables like cabbage, onions, and garlice.
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It is a book to be enjoyed with friends, served with a hot pot of borscht and pelmeni.
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Bloomberg said the comments were merely "Borscht belt jokes" when they came up during his 2001 mayoral run.
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I slurped down endless bowls of borscht—beetroot soup full of veggies and a garnish of sour cream.
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Horovitz comes on like a borscht belt comedian, but beneath that he is urgent, incredulous, kind of vulnerable.
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Wash it down with Dr. Brown,And don't forget the borscht,Westside, bestside, deli crownA black and white?
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There is hot borscht and many varieties of dumplings, including some made with fried liver, carrots and onions.
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These are served bobbing in bowls of borscht, or barszcz, a sour beet soup the color of garnet.
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Always the borscht, with brisket chunks and cabbage and carrots and tomato, cooked forever, but never with beets.
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There's also a nice little filmmaker scene in SoFla, at the center of which is the Borscht Film Festival.
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Borscht Diez (Spanish for "ten") started the way many lives end: with a funeral, eulogy, and a cleansing fire.
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They lecture together on the law-school circuit—Chapter 11 stuff, with some Borscht Belt-style patter thrown in.
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To witness Miami's ability to simultaneously fulfill and upend its stereotypes, look no further than the Borscht Film Festival.
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Omit the pork from this mapo ragù and replace it with tempeh, or make David Tanis's vegetarian red borscht.
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This November, Borscht Festival celebrated an extravagant "rebirth" with unique, homegrown South Florida programming — and a ton of hedonism.
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City Kitchen This clean, lighter-tasting vegetarian take on Eastern European borscht walks the line between sweet and sour.
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And she does all of it with a silly, surreal sense of humor that occasionally veers into Borscht-belt hamminess.
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The Boca Raton Bowl sounds like some Hipster Borscht dish, but it's got way more beet beat juice than that.
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Another fella sauntered over with a "take my wife" Borscht Belt best-left-unshared joke about a woman named Laverne.
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The Catskills property that once hosted the borscht belt classic Kutsher's resort will soon reopen with YO 2350 Wellness Center.
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But he's a skilled joke-teller with none of the borscht belt timing you would expect from a Catskills comic.
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Meanwhile, Trump had in his orbit a number of people with Moscow ties, including Paul Manafort, who practically bleeds borscht.
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She had vivid memories of eating borscht, prepared by her somewhat-fierce Russian-Jewish grandmother, every Sunday as a child.
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For example, at 60A, the clue is "Waist accessory for a Russian cook?" and the answer is BORSCHT BELT, which is hilarious not only because it's a clever twist on the old Jewish resorts in the Catskills, but also for the visual of trying to feed a belt made of borscht through your belt loops.
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Some would-be hosts even volunteered to pick up guests from the airport or cook them borscht, a traditional beetroot soup.
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We went for dumplings and borscht in the East Village, and he asked me to spend the night with him after.
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In a superb profile, the critic Jay Ruttenberg wrote that his stand-up evokes the stars of the old borscht belt.
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The "borscht" sausage is served on a bed of braised cabbage and carrots and topped with a dollop of crème fraîche.
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At the same time, the Catskills were on the verge of another economic downturn as the Borscht Belt lost its cachet.
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The borscht was as good as I've ever had; I was so hungry I forgot to put the sour cream in.
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The Ukrainian borscht was also quite good (5.90 zloty), a tangy beetroot-based soup with green beans and chunks of potato.
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" A quick shift of imagery: "I write poetry, prose, and everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht.
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To me, borscht is first and foremost about beets and the brilliant red color, but for my friend, not so much.
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There is perky pink borscht from a blender, whirled with sour cream or yogurt and served in a glass, ice-cold.
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The beetroot soup known as borscht is actually a traditionally Polish and Ukrainian dish, but expect to find it all over Russia.
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The practice was so common, in fact, that the countless summer resorts that populated the area became known as the Borscht Belt.
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The Americans So Martha Hanson is practically on a plane to Moscow, headed to a life of borscht and drab apartment blocks.
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It had rained earlier, a sudden and unseasonable downpour, as if by lucky miracle… as if Borscht was watching over us all.
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"Ben grew up as a borscht belt comedian, and he has got the quickest wit," said Paul Shechtman, another criminal defense lawyer.
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I like Mark Bittman's loosey-goosey recipe for borscht salad, which is improved immeasurably by the addition of some soft-boiled eggs.
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His comedy avoids the fashionable confessional style in favor of borscht belt standards about hectoring mothers and religious figures walking into bars.
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I just wrapped a short documentary that I shot earlier in the year that was commissioned by the Borscht Corporation in Miami.
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His previous film, the sublime academic comedy "Footnote," mined father-son rivalry and scholarly antagonism for biblical pathos and borscht belt humor.
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She set out to capture the crumbling glamour of the once well-known destinations in a photography book called "The Borscht Belt."
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From Flamin' Hot Cheetos and pulled pork to borscht and horseradish-flavored cheese, they wrote passionately about their favorite and least favorite foods.
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" A Parisian cookbook from 1938 described borscht as "a Russian soup made from beef, duck, pork belly, garnished with cabbage julienne and beetroot.
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He applied a borscht belt delivery to sometimes risqué material, giddily showering audiences with confetti and pummeling them with puns and one-liners.
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Schoolchildren in Nagato, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's hometown, ate borscht and piroshki in honor of Mr. Putin's trip to hot spring baths there.
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The menu also tips its hat to the neighborhood's Eastern European roots with borscht and pierogies, and to vegans with an Impossible Burger.
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Brighten your day with a steaming bowl of borscht, rich with crimson-stained vegetables in a savory beef broth, topped with sour cream.
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The party for "Natasha" was held at a fashionable club along the Spree River, with borscht, herring, vodka, Russian champagne and Armenian brandy.
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The show is a time capsule of midcentury American Jewish culture, complete with a classic New York Jewish deli scene and Borscht Belt references.
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This area of the southern Catskills was once known as the Borscht Belt due to its popularity with Jewish vacationers from New York City.
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Flipping through the cookbook, you'll see recipes for just about everything—not just traditional Cuban dishes, but also things like chow mein or borscht.
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Ms. Vasina oversees the borscht as well, a gentle vegetarian version whose rich hue she attributes to knowing the exact time to add vinegar.
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He barreled through a spate of primary debates as an improvisational performer, long on chutzpah and borscht belt put-downs but short on facts.
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Don't expect a coherent narrative, but this ramshackle show mixing Washington Irving, borscht belt jokes and "Dirty Dancing" has an odd charm (1:30).
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Ms. Shamis introduced him to some classic Eastern European recipes; in particular he recalled that she had made him borscht, a traditional vegetable soup.
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Unlike the acts of Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller, there was not a whiff of the borscht belt or the coffeehouse about her material.
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Pirogi, pelmeni dumplings, savory kachapuri pastries, borscht and beef stroganoff are among the richly alluring temptations: Samovarchik, 11 Stanton Street (Bowery), 646-7153-0333.
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Ken Demirjian, manager of Anoush Deli International Market, purveyor of borscht, sausages and other items favored by Slavic refugees, has witnessed the population explosion.
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Sandler placed an order for two black-cherry sodas and made his way through the buffet line, surveying the platters of borscht and guacamole.
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Mountain Lake Lodge offers many of the Borscht Belt activities depicted in the sleeper hit: beach volleyball, horseshoes, bocce ball, lawn chess and badminton.
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His entertainment career began as a 19603-year-old singing "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" in resorts in New York state's "Borscht Belt" resorts.
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Looks like it's going to be some leftover borscht soup my Polish classmate brought over for Christmas and roasted Brussels sprouts sprinkled with nutritional yeast.
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Many have been around since the 1800s, had their hay days during the Borscht Belt era, and have since been brought into the 21st century.
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A local village man named Nurbek cooks the meals, which range from a rich Borscht to a staple beef-and-noodle dish known as Laghman.
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In the somewhat goofy, borscht belt humor mode he's been known for over the last few decades, he replied, pointing: 'There it is, right there.
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The name Supper Mario Broth came from a brainstorming session where Super Mario Borscht and Soapy Mario Bath were both names they almost settled on.
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We built a roaring fire, burned it down to coals, then made borscht lifted from a declassified CIA translation of a 1948 Russian army cookbook.
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There were always women working the circuit, even on the borscht belt — like the 1960s club regular Belle Barth, who sold millions of comedy records.
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This led to a population influx of mostly Jewish retirees, which made the place, for a time, a borscht belt below the Mason-Dixon line.
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Season 2 picks up where the first left off, and for a time brings Midge out of New York, to Paris and the borscht belt.
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Prestige Shorts offered works that will or have played at other festivals, made "by people who actually know what they are doing," as Borscht jokes.
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Sullivan County, home to part of the Borscht Belt, once housed 538 hotels and 50,000-plus bungalows, according to Brandon Presser of The Daily Beast.
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Different people swear by different comfort foods when they are sick — whether it's chicken soup in the US, borscht in Russia, or fish porridge in Singapore.
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We had lunch—chicken Kiev and an oddly beetless borscht—on the terrace of Tatiana, a Russian restaurant on the Brighton Beach boardwalk, facing the sea.
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Wielding the brush in one hand, he cups the fingers of the other in the sort of gesture you might make when relishing an exquisite borscht.
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Later he and his new friends, whom he kept for life, drank each other's health in borscht which he had led them to believe was vodka.
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He took her to see the cabaret duo Kiki and Herb, and Ms. Everett became close with Murray Hill, the borscht belt-style comedian and host.
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Not all critics liked his borscht, neither the film nor his poetry, but no one could ever deny the energy, and the verses stuck in memory.
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If your traditional Thanksgiving meal recipe post recommends a feast of borscht, solyanka, and pierogi, you should view this with some suspicion (though it does sound delicious).
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It never changes, from the electric-pink borscht to the wall murals of the antebellum South, which make no sense when you're sitting there eating smoked salmon.
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His film Gutk'odau (Yellow) debuted at Indie Grits 2019 and his most recent film (co-directed by Adam Khalil), Allapatah, debuted at Borscht 0 in November 2019.
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If you get lost, just listen for the 'Slava Ukraini' clarion call that brings you back to your table, where an obligatory bowl of blood-red borscht awaits.
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Growing up, my family described Soviet women as fearless matriarchs—endlessly cooking massive vats of borscht for their families with meat it took them three hours to find.
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They did this very vaudevillian, Broadway, musical theater, borscht belt style, which here and there, Seth and I borrow from but we don't lean into that as much.
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From communist academics and charming mobsters, to brash movie execs and working-class stiffs, the film oscillates wildly between comedy and melodrama, Borscht Belt humor, and gentle sentimentality.
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While they started out with empanadas, they've grown to serve a much broader menu: the Russian soups borscht and solyanka, that pollo a la kiev, a classic stroganoff.
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Consider the grated zucchini salad, cold soups like summer borscht, chicken shashlik and other grilled specialties, hazelnut tarator as sauce for vegetables, and roasted peaches stuffed with marzipan.
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Where Chau is modest, Hertzberg, who represents the San Fernando Valley, is voluble and insistent, with a slicked-back mane of hair and a steady borscht-belt patter.
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There you could buy a jar of Gold's schav — a murky, drab green curiosity that sat next to the even stranger and murkier gefilte fish and the borscht.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads After years of cultivating an independent film community in Miami, the Borscht Corporation has returned to Sundance with a bold new project.
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In the 1960s, cheap air travel allowed a new generation to visit more exotic and warmer destinations, and the Borscht Belt was no longer the place to be.
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The spokesperson says they're currently looking at the Unicode emoji criteria so they have their best shot at convincing the committee to make this borscht emoji dream a reality.
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She grew up in the Catskills in the '80s, a time when many of the biggest Borscht Belt hotels still operated, but with less traffic than they once had.
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" Masha sees the treatment of female prisoners as a reflection of Russian women's status in society: "Putin recently said a woman's place is in the kitchen cooking fucking borscht.
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I ordered the red borscht, a tangy beet soup served with a dollop of sour cream and rye bread, and the Siberian Pilmeny, a hearty serving of beef dumplings.
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Specialties included cold beet borscht, cabbage salad, radish salad, grilled lamb shish kebabs, fermented pickled watermelon, sweet cherry cake, sweet cherry punch and homemade horseradish vodka with lemon peel.
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It's been a pretty wild and great experience making it and it screened at Borscht 0 in Miami as part of their showcase of commissioned work on November 22.
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I'm going to guess that the orders at Burgers 'n' Borscht favor burgers at a 100 to 1 rate, and that the soup-and-sandwich option is deeply unpopular.
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The Pines Hotel in South Fallsburg, New York, was part of the "Borscht Belt," a collection of resorts popular with New York City Jews in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Smoked fish, bagels, knishes, herring, lox and eggs and borscht — the items that New Yorkers call appetizing — are served and also sold to take away in a downstairs cafe.
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" Aside from the main festival, Borscht DIEZ spans nearly a week; as Leyva explains, "It's Miami's style to see the end of the world as a reason to party.
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They could just as well have been leaning on a lamppost and chewing gum, and the smell of borscht could have been in the air, but in our village we do not make borscht—we eat couscous and tilefish and that was the smell in the air, tilefish, which even to this day we can hardly bear to smell because it reminds us of the day the two men arrived in the village.
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Many families in this neighborhood are Russian émigrés for whom borscht is a staple, but children from half a dozen countries, including a contingent from Bangladesh, are also enrolled here.
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At the intersection of all these global and local influences is the Dirty Borscht, a tall glass of chilled red bouillon fortified with horseradish vodka; it's a delectable hangover elixir.
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Best and strangest of all is the borscht Martini—beet vodka and dill vodka, sprinkled with Himalayan pink salt and crushed herbs, a pungent, tangy punch in a frosty glass.
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The menu is American, with Asian touches, featuring dishes like roasted bone marrow, grilled chicken wings, hamachi tartare, seared duck breast and borscht, some prepared on a special charcoal grill.
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There, before a rapt audience in a sanctum of justice, this Harvard-trained lawyer from Brooklyn who spent his summers on the borscht belt could be at his most performative.
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On this particularly evening in late January, the most-attended Polish Thursday yet, waiters are shuffling out appetizers of golden beet borscht, sumptuously dashed with smoked eel and parsley oil.
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This assimilation process involved Borscht Belt comedy, marinating chicken in dehydrated soup, and shipping upstate to the resorts of the Catskills to practice the habits of the American leisure class.
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Through puddles and still-unpaved swampland we traversed, arriving at Borscht's funeral pyre: a screen reading "In Loving Memory," playing every Borscht film on high speed, two ladders on either side.
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In true borscht belt fashion, Mr. Leibowitz wickedly turns the tables, advising that when current politics and the odds are stacked against you, you should make fun of the whole thing.
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The most famous of the female borscht belt comedians, the 4-foot-11 Fields began working the Catskills and Boston burlesque joints in the '40s, while she was still a teenager.
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Purveyors of specialty items may find it well worth the push to get their goods on shelves next to the tried-and-true jars of borscht and bottles of grape juice.
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At one point the Windy City was home to some 300,000 Lithuanians, 11 Catholic Lithuanian parishes, several schools and dozens of Lithuanian shops and restaurants making kugelis (potato pudding) and chilled borscht.
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But when the final bill is tallied, including T-shirts, shooting lessons, and of course, borscht, Kryjivka, despite its theme, isn't really about indoctrination into nationalism, but rather about indoctrination into consumerism.
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The immense hotels of the so-called borscht belt, which served a Jewish clientele in Sullivan County, have largely shuttered as well, though a casino project promises to bring tourists and jobs.
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The cuisine of Azerbaijan often echoes those of its neighbors Georgia, Armenia and Iran, but other dishes, like borscht, were hauled down from Eastern Europe in the strong arms of Mother Russia.
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The Republican front-runner is running as standup-in-chief this year, convulsing stadiums with his borscht-belt timing; meanwhile, Hillary gets dinged as humorless—and, when she does make jokes, unfunny.
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David L. Kirp BORSCHT isn't found on most prekindergarten menus, but it's what the cooks were dishing up for the 923 children at Ira's Daycare in Briarwood, Queens, on a recent school day.
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"We expect Facebook's efforts to label content in this manner to be about as apt as its blocking of RT's pages containing Borscht recipes last week," RT spokesperson Anna Belkina told CNN Business.
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In a new video essay, Kelly Loudenberg and Jillian Mayer of Borscht Corp—filmmakers and artists and friends of Motherboard—explore this soft but dangerous terrain, where nothing's really real but the gunfire.
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The film's immediacy made me feel like I was back on the barricades: I could almost smell the sulfur from police stun grenades, the sweet scent of borscht boiling over field kitchen burners.
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Mr. Hackett, a dough-faced borscht belt comic known for roles in the films "The Music Man" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," was chatting with a group of male comedians.
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On Monday night, I'm liking the idea of a big borscht salad, which, if you don't think is substantial enough, you could combine with a couple of extra soft-boiled eggs on top.
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Adams attributes the start of her writing career to the people she met through her marriage in 1952 to Joey Adams, the borscht belt comedian who was well connected to politicians and celebrities.
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I must also admit I have never seen Dirty Dancing, which I'm told is a celebrated piece of pop culture that encapsulated the Borscht Belt resort experience but kept the Jewish out of it.
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The salmon patties were just as delicious the next day for lunch and the beans and greens soup (pictured above) for dinner was 10 times better than the borscht, but I was still hungry.
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On a more literal biographical level, Fania suffers from a psychological malaise exacerbated by the condescension of her in-laws (Arieh's mother remarks that Fania's borscht is "almost flavorful") and her own mother's cruelty.
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Vilnius specialties included kepta duona, fried bread covered in cheese sauce and eaten with toothpicks; saltibarsciai, bright pink chilled borscht; and cepelinai, potato dumplings filled with pork and topped with a creamy bacon sauce.
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The entire event kicks off with a wake and a Viking funeral: guests will be escorted to the Everglades, where they'll be encouraged to shoot fireworks at screens playing Borscht films, setting them ablaze.
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The Borscht Belt was a place to commune with other Jews at a time when Jewish immigrants to America, many of them Holocaust survivors, were finding their footing in a largely still-anti-Semitic world.
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But if you want a side of borscht with your back rub, head a little further north up Collins Avenue to the Russian and Turkish Baths in the basement of the Castle Beach Club hotel.
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Directed by Lucas Leyva and Jillian Mayer of Miami-based collective Borscht, it sees two infatuated special agents searching for extraterrestrial lifeforms, smoking cigarettes, drinking espressos while driving, and riding on a cool-ass airboat.
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Situated on a slice of the former Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club, a popular borscht belt resort that closed in 2013, Yo2003 is just a piece of Mr. Chandra's development plans for the huge property.
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It is in former Borscht Belt country: this area of the Catskills was once dotted with hotels, resorts and restaurants catering to Jewish vacationers, but decades ago it fell out of fashion and into disuse.
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CreditCreditNicholas Calcott When the textile designer Sean McNanney moved from Manhattan to North Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 2004, the smell of borscht would often greet him as he climbed the stairs to his railroad-style apartment.
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The snappy "borscht" links are a phenomenal marriage of brilliant-magenta beet purée, caraway, and fatty ground pork, served on a bed of finely diced braised cabbage and carrots, with a generous dollop of crème fraîche.
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To woo New York, the company whipped up a bunch of new donburi and appetizers such as spicy tuna cones, heavily accessorized sashimi, and fried chunks of chicken in a tartar sauce the color of borscht.
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The strapping Mr. Fierstein, with his foghorn voice and borscht belt timing, gave the world a drag queen that every mother could love, and a script with the zing of an R-rated Neil Simon comedy.
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The tiny dumpling spot, squeezed next to a barbershop, opened in December with a few stools at a window counter, heavy-eyelashed matryoshka dolls standing sentinel and a terse menu devoted to pelmeni, vareniki, blini and borscht.
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Bookshelf During its New York heyday a century ago, the Yiddish theater, with its Shakespearean tragedies, tear-jerking melodramas and ludicrous comedies, was a proving ground from which some stars graduated to the borscht belt and beyond.
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Wordplay SUNDAY PUZZLE — For whatever reason, this puzzle at this time of the year reminded me of some stories from the borscht belt that I've heard over the years, most of them referring to the Kutsher's Hotel.
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It's the period before the borscht belt that informs Sims Foster, a co-founder of Foster Supply Hospitality, which owns four small hotels in the more-rural western part of the county, where Mr. Foster grew up.
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He's like a hyper-empowered schlemiel — I'm using the Yiddish word for the guy who proverbially spills his borscht all over you — while turning the rest of us into his schlimazels, the ones who get spilled on.
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After the billboards were taken down, Mayer made two videos to accompany the project, entitled "ARROWS" and "MEASUREMENTS," which debuted at the Borscht Film Festival in Miami at the end of February and were posted online in March.
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Beginning festively, with some audience members seated at a large central table and served a meal that includes borscht, pierogies and apple sauce, the performance alternates celebration with danger, and then turns mournful, with exquisite polyphonic choral music.
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I have been there three times in the last two years — once to see Trina perform on an old vault for a Borscht Film Festival party, then for an anticlimactic ghost tour, and last night, for Prizm Art Fair.
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I went on a five-year quest to document any remains of the Borscht Belt that I could, whether it was a singular structure, a pool, a tennis court, a bungalow, the old lobbies, kitchens, showrooms, and shuffleboard courts.
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Besides borscht and vareniki , there is holubtsi , a medley of rice and pork or mushrooms swathed in braised cabbage leaves, and kovbasa , or sausage, which Kovalenko gets at a nearby Ukrainian-run butcher shop and serves with homemade horseradish.
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In summer, like a monarch butterfly, he fluttered north to the handful of surviving Catskills hotels, sampling the borscht when there was no longer a belt and delighting the hotel denizens with jokes many had heard more than once.
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"They have this primal drama we can all relate to," Mr. Williams said recently over vegetarian borscht at an East Village cafe near St. Mark's Church, where his newest work, "Il Giardino d'Amore," will have its premiere this week.
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There were once 266 resorts in the Borscht Belt area of the Catskill Mountains, so named because of the middle-to-upper class Jewish families from New York City who flocked there for the summers from the 280s to the 21950s.
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Nef spoke with the flat vowels of a California teen, while her mother, played by the typically excellent Michaela Watkins, employed a Borscht Belt accent, speaking with a Yiddish inflection imported from a community production of Fiddler on the Roof.
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The Soviets — which is to say Philip, Elizabeth, Hans and the anonymous woman at the call center, who contributed by giving Philip borscht — were up against the entire apparatus of the F.B.I.'s Washington office, and of course they prevailed.
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Though the menu is extremely meat-centric, and includes a steak of the day (bottom), there are two salads on offer, a handful of vegetable sides, and a fantastic "borscht" sausage, made with ground pork and beet purée (center right).
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There are celebrity pairings: Zac Posen on beets and borscht (an ode to color), Dr. Ruth Westheimer on pomegranates (an ode to fertility); Joshua Malina on gribenes (crispy bits of chicken skin that are themselves an ode to chicken fat).
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It is a bet that piggybacks on the crowds that he hopes will come to the Resorts World Casino, a $750 million complex opening next year in another former borscht belt destination, the Concord Resort Hotel in nearby Kiamesha Lake.
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Visit This Spending time in Phoenicia, N.Y., as a child, I watched as boutique hotels, revamped diners and so-called glamping sites opened their doors in the Catskills, an area known as the home of borscht belt comedy and Woodstock.
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It contains recipes for Euclid's Geometric Spanakopita, in circular and trapezoidal as well as triangular shapes; Isaac Newton's apple cobbler (and his apple crisp too!); and three versions of Karl Marx's Revolutionary Borscht, one with bacon, one without and one vegan.
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So I embarked on a research expedition: What was this halcyon Jewish vacationland in upstate New York, where the tomato juice and borscht were aplenty and you could buy a fur coat in the dining room and later catch a midnight show?
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Though resorts in the Borscht Belt originally began popping up out of necessity due to antisemitic attitudes, according to Hudson Valley Magazine, the spots grew to become an important incubator for culture beginning in the 20s and continuing all through the 70s.
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The restaurant, where chicken, craft beers and kosher wines are also on the menu, is the work of friends who, as children, spent summers in the Borscht Belt and who felt a need for innovative kosher food in their South Brooklyn neighborhood.
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During a lavish state dinner that featured crab salad, borscht and a chocolate cheesecake festooned with North Korean and Russian flags, both Putin and Kim repeated nearly note-for-note many of the platitudinous remarks they made about mutual friendship at their summit appearances.
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If you're partial to something more traditional and overtly Slavic, head further north, to Karczma ("country tavern"), in the heart of Little Poland, where waitresses in folk dresses dole out bread bowls of white borscht and reflexively address locals in the language of their forebears.
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Mr. Groban works hard and hits his marks, and he's likable, but he doesn't have anything resembling the comic chops needed to put across the show's Borscht Belt-style humor, or anything like Mr. Shalhoub's ability to relay emotion through movement (or excruciating stillness).
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His play Mr. Akita stars artist and performer Cliff Hengst — adept at channeling humor and pathos in equal measure — as a Borscht Belt–style comedian and washed-up painter, who discusses the nature of art with a silent Op art painting by Emily Joyce.
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I was able to have a fancy-frugal time at the bar at White Rabbit in Moscow, a fixture on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, and have some delicious rabbit-stuffed cabbage rolls and bowl of green borscht with rhubarb for less than $20.
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Brafman used a bag of potato chips, a Borscht Belt joke, and jibes about "rich people B.S." to blast claims that Shkreli was a Ponzi schemer instead of an oddball genius devoted to building a successful drug company to repay his hedge-fund investors.
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It's not so much an anecdote as a recitation of a musical number from Brooks's formative days as an entertainer — an Al Jolson-esque ditty that he performed in the Army and later on the borscht belt circuit before it became an enduring part of his repertoire.
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I ended up spending quite a while at Megobari, the restaurant at the top of the gondola serving snacks like kebab and borscht, and the usual range of drinks but with some surprises too — including a tasty tea with honey, lime, ginger, and a few mystery herbs.
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The film then shifts its focus to the speed boat (which for most of the running time bears the name Lay'n Pipe) as it journeys through an onslaught of absurd stories, each referencing each other as they intersect or call back to past Borscht Corp events.
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They are likely to find him in his usual animated state: limping up and down the sideline, screaming, arms flailing, his face the color of a bowl of borscht, his once-pressed suit reduced to a rumpled outfit paying homage to the land of a thousand (perspiration) lakes.
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Performing in upscale nightclubs and on concert stages, including Carnegie Hall at the height of his fame, he found humor in places where his borscht belt predecessors had never thought to look: ''If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you.
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One Saturday night, the tasting menu (a steal, at sixty-five dollars for at least nine dishes, served by kind enthusiasts) started with "crackers and cheese" (rye-sprouted crisps with vegan pistachio cheese), followed by a tiny appetizer involving dry-aged beet that packed the flavor of a bowl of borscht.
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Here are other intriguing guides to getting around New York City and its surrounding areas: "The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland" (Cornell University Press, $29.95), featuring photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld, provides a vivid, bittersweet record of forsaken archaeological sites that were once beloved summer havens in the Catskills.
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Sandwich historians suggest that it was the creation of Herbie's Restaurant in Loch Sheldrake in the 1950s, and it soon became a favorite of the summertime borscht-belt crowd — after-show entertainers and Jewish bungalow kids with observant parents lining up alongside one another for this taste of illicit exoticism, unkosher and delicious in the extreme.
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But their exchange about Jewish identity seemed worth reproducing in full below — not because of its references to Borscht Belt humor and Jewish mothers (though I personally enjoyed that) but for the light it sheds on a much bigger question about the compulsions driving overachievers and whether the path to success is necessarily fraught with self-loathing.
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Martinez was part of The Smile That Launched 1,000 Ships, a show curated by Dylan Redford, Lauren Monzon, and Borscht Corp, and she filled a bathroom with a sensually icky and wonderful installation: words like "Baby" stuck to tile plaques and written in seemingly wet hair; a striking, pencil-drawn version of a mirror selfie placed at the bottom of a tub.
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But in mid-December, Ms. Baker walked out of a job fair at the local Ramada Inn with a new position at the soon-to-open Resorts World Catskills, the $1.2 billion casino resort that proponents say will revive Sullivan County, a once-booming area known as the borscht belt for its hotels, bungalow colonies and performers, appealing to Jewish vacationers.
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Along with the TV critic Emily Nussbaum's spot-on observation of Trump's connection to the humor of, in her words, the "dark and angry" borscht belt comics, and the cultural and political critic Frank Rich's unsparing account of the role New York's liberal establishment played in Trump's rise, Poniewozik brings a new microscope with which to analyze the drug-resistant bacterium that is our president.
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I wrote a column for The Times this week about a sandwich that came out of the borscht-belt Catskills in the 1950s and that still inhabits the menus of diners in Brooklyn and down the south shore of Nassau County on Long Island: thin-sliced, Cantonese-style char siu married to Italian-American garlic bread beneath a veil of sweet-sticky duck sauce.
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Michael, the Jew in search of a way to accommodate his values and his hedonism; Hope, his conservative, judgmental stay-at-home wife; goofy Elliot, Michael's philandering business partner; insecure Nancy, Elliot's long-suffering, squelched artist of a wife; ambitious, insecure, unmarried Ellyn; desperate Melissa, Michael's photographer cousin who delivers every joke about her therapist tinged in borscht belt; idealistic hippie Gary, Michael's friend from college, played by a Nordic wolf.
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And David Tanis gave us a new recipe for vegetarian borscht that is light and fresh and sweet and sour and I think if I ever get out of this liminal nightmare, I'll try to make a double batch, whiz half of it up in the food processor with sour cream and horseradish and put it in the refrigerator so I can drink a cup every morning until it's gone.
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