OK I have to add a note for the Slavic race. Nothing warms a chill winter night like a bowl of Ukrainian borsch. It is a red beet soup base with beef stock and lots of veggies. Peter Orstroushko, the mandolin player, actually put his mother's recipe to music and sings it on one of his albums, dedicated to the "church ladies". These are the old dolls who whip up a huge "banyek" (soup pot) every weekend at Ukrainian church halls all over the world. "Smoch Mnoho!" Happy eating.