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We had a small feast of the broth with kasha, which was more filling than good, the rest of the bread, a pot of marmalade Mrs. Diamant had been saving, and a sack of apples.

But my mother’s cooking went well beyond the chopped liver, stuffed cabbage, kasha varnishkes and chicken soup of her Eastern European background, both in attention to detail and imagination.

Instead, he seemed fully at ease with life in the metro, sitting with a gaggle of friends and eating helpings of chicken, kasha, soup and pickled shredded carrot.

Eastern European Jews mix buckwheat with bow-tie pasta and caramelized onions in kasha varnishkes.

It appears that kasha varnishkes traded the old country for its new adopted home.