Russians tried to appropriate this Ukrainian dish.
Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the request The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine included the element “Culture of making Ukrainian borscht” in the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage that needs immediate protection. Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Minister of Culture and Information Policy of our country, said this.
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“The battle for borscht was started even before the war. And no matter how much Masha Zakharova said that “cookery books were banned, and the recipe of the dish was kept a secret and it was forbidden to cook” and in general our borscht is a “manifestation of extremism and Nazism”, this “manifestation of extremism” is now officially Ukrainian, and officially under protected by UNESCO,” Tkachenko wrote in Telegram.
The minister also added that Ukraine would be happy to share borscht and its recipes with all the civilized countries of the world. “And with the uncivilized, too, so that they have at least something light, tasty and Ukrainian,” he added. Ukraine. The authors of the idea noted that the introduction of Borscht Day will ensure the protection of cultural heritage and popularization of Ukrainian culture in the world.
