Kasha varnishkes is known as
Holiday court today, but that comes
from very modest beginnings: a poor
man's fare of our Eastern European
heritage, by simple, herzhaftes
cereals and pastries. The word
"Kasha" is the russian
for porridge, despite that refers
mainly to buckwheat cooked, of the
most frequent and cheap of cereals
available. The origin of the word
"varnishkes" is a little
more confusing: is important,
apparently by a Ukrainian word with
the meaning of "fills",
and it
