The Baltics' beet soup season begins with a beef between Latvia and Lithuania
by editors@theworld.org (Daniel Ofman) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6YDM7)
Cold beet soup is a culinary staple in Latvia and Lithuania, and across Eastern Europe. This year, Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, hosted a "Pink Soup Festival" celebrating the dish. But the city's tourism agency also started a public beef with Latvia, claiming that the Lithuanian version of the soup is better. The World's Daniel Ofman reports from Latvia's capital, Riga.
This story originally aired on June 4, 2024.