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For photographer Marisa Scheinfeld, photographing the ruins of Borscht Belt resorts became a life-affirming journey.
Catskill’s Borscht Belt Museum ProjectAndrew Jacobs, the Co-president of the museum’s board of directors is seen through a hole in one of the rooms of the future Catskill’s Borscht Belt ...
Join Chef Tavakkul as he shares his take on borscht, a comforting Eastern European soup made with vibrant beets, tender cabbage, and flavorful lamb. This traditional recipe is full of color and ...
A series of stunning photos captured after dark bring nightlife back to abandoned resorts of the Borscht Belt in New York's Catskills region!
Photographer Marisa Scheinfeld grew up in the "Borscht Belt," a ritzy Jewish resort haven in New York. Many of the establishments have gone out of business and become abandoned buildings ...
DON’YA Kitchen in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is run entirely by newcomers who have fled the war in Ukraine and celebrates Ukrainian cuisine with recipes… ...
A plate of borscht freshly cooked by Oksana Chadaieva as seen Oct. 15 in her kitchen in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Chadaieva loves to cook borscht using the recipe of her mother and grandmother ...
Photorapher Marisa Scheinfeld returned to the legendary hotels of the Borscht Belt to photograph their decaying remains.
It’s hard to picture now, but the ruined resorts in Marisa Scheinfeld’s haunting photos once epitomized glamour for East Coast middle-class families. Known as the Borscht Belt, these upstate ...
The area was colloquially known as the Borscht Belt because of the large number of Jewish vacationers who frequented the area. (The hotel in Dirty Dancing was modeled after a real-life Catskills ...
Dear SOS: In the heat of August, I stopped for lunch at Paper or Plastik Cafe. I had the most amazing cold borscht. It was light and refreshing and full-flavored and, like my bubby's, only ...
Marisa Schienfeld's book The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America's Jewish Vacationland shows eerie images of what the Catskills Mountains, New York resort looks like now.