Is that some form of cereal? Looks like grape-nuts. Not trying to diss the ethnic food, just curious. I like food, almost all food.
I guess ethnic food is relative, to me pizza is ethnic.
It's buckwheat, just a type of grain commonly eaten in Eastern Europe. Probably the most basic thing to eat. In western films about Russia or the east they always show people being served borsch as if it's a bad thing or a poor thing but borsch is loved by all there. The real poor man's food is boiled buckwheat and vodka. Warms you up and absorbs the alcohol like crazy.
Most all cultures have a dish like this, made from what ever cereal grain that grows in that area. Cheap, easy to make and filling. Used to fill farmers and soldiers bellies for thousands of years.
good old pottage
Yea i can literally not think of a more basic dish than this. And yet I constantly eat it. I also have some kvass
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