Vilnius In The Pink with Beetroot Soup Festival June 1 -Graeme Kemlo

Travel Writers Radio

People get together for all sorts of reasons in celebration of an historic event or the annual harvest festivals mark the abundance of foods produced, while some towns just do it as a reason to boost local visitation by tourists. Well Graeme Kemlo came across a festival in Vilnius, capital of the former Russian republic in the Baltic that once was a kingdom in its own right then a joint confederation with Poland, then it was occupied by Russia, Germany and Russia again until . Their celebration on June 1st is to mark their recognition as home to the best cold soup in the world, its bright pink soup! Graeme speaks with Gintarė avaliūnaitė of Go Vilnius about the soup that is probably closest to the Polish beetr00t-based borscht, Photo supplied -- you can even jump into faux pink soup