Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · May 8

today's cooking, a carrot salad called "morkovcha", has a fascinating history. the version i make is asian-jewish fusion cuisine - but not the way you'd think. 1/

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Jake Berman · May 8

in the 1930s, stalin deported the soviet union's ethnic korean minority from the soviet far east. the nkvd feared that that the koreans would side with imperial japan in the event of war. about 200,000 people were forced to leave for uzbekistan. 2/