I just made borscht and it was lovely! http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot.com/2007/03/beet-beet-borscht.html

I’m so dismayed by what happened to you. Although, I shouldn’t be surprised. The internet and other electronic stuff makes stealing ideas even easier. When I was in j school, our prof was one of the local paper’s editors. One of the students wrote a feature that he liked but it wasn’t well-written enough to make it in the paper. So he paid the student for the idea, and had one of his reporters cover it. I’d figure that editor should at least acknowledge, in payment, that you had done all the legwork. And that editor-in-chief should have acknowledge that as well.

We happen to be in upper Michigan right now, going through Jerry’s grandparents’ house. I came across a Russian cookbook with about a dozen borscht recipes. I’d be curious to compare.

Re: the editor incident, the magazine sent me a copy of the story before it ran (after I voiced my complaints). I had a phone conversation with the editor in chief about the incident. The author of the story happened to be on vacation at the time, and the magazine was going to print, so there wasn’t much they could do. I pointed out an error in the article, but it still came out in print that way. I never heard from the other editor again.

Re: your comment on eatingasia about that editor stealing your idea and content. I hope you reported him to his editor or something. That’s so wrong.

As always beautiful pictures