Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Borscht

and pierogi

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Jen Deaderick
Jul 17, 2021
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Oh, hi! I’m back in NYC. At Veselka, specifically, getting some pierogi and borscht. It looks different in here than it did when I was a scrappy young thing stopping in at 2AM, and it has for a while. It still feels mostly the same, and the borscht still tastes the same.

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