Jewish Food Society Recalls Picnic Recipes From the Soviet Union

For a Jewish Food Society newsletter, Sasha Shor — the nonprofit’s chef-in-residence this summer — has recalled the picnics that her family, which emigrated from Russia to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1978, would enjoy in the Smoky Mountains.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. The story of the picnics, with excellent recipes worth trying and family photos, are in the newsletter, also posted on the group’s website.