Today, at the fifth extraordinary meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the element “Culture of Ukrainian Borscht Preparation” was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of immediate protection. This was announced by Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko,
KYIV. UkraineGate. 1st of July.2022 | Society .
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The battle for borscht began before the war. And no matter how much Masha Zakharova said that “cookbooks were forbidden, and the recipe was kept secret and forbidden to cook” and in general our borsch is a “manifestation of extremism and Nazism”, this manifestation of extremism ”is now officially Ukrainian, and officially under the protection of UNESCO,” Tkachenko wrote.
Source: Ukrgate
