1) borscht belt. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Informal The predominantly Jewish resort hotels of the Catskill Mountains. Also called borscht circuit. From the popularity of borscht in the cuisine of these hotels....
2) borscht. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...cream. Yiddish borsht, from Russian borshch, cow parsnip (the original base of the soup), borscht....
3) 7243. Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...AUTHOR: Yevgeny Yevtushenko QUOTATION: Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it—beets, carrots, cabbage, onions,...
4) borsht. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000.
...Variant of borscht....
5) YIDDISH WORDS IN AMERICAN ENGLISH. The Columbia Guide to Standard American
English. 1993
...dialect, but vaudeville, the Yiddish theater, the movies, radio, television, and the borscht-circuit comedians who earned their spurs in the Catskill resorts have...
6) soup. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...or fruit. Many soups are peculiar to certain localities, e.g., the pot-au-feu of France, the borscht of Russia, the mutton broth of Scotland, the minestrone of Italy,...
7) Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...Highlands; fishing, hunting. Mfg. (apparel). Its hotels were popularly known as the "Canadian Borscht Belt" during the 1950s and 1960s....
8) Catskill Mountains. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...to New York City, the area is popular with summer and winter vacationers; the famed "Borscht Belt," a string of Jewish family resorts, is now in decline, but outdoor...
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