Traditional Slavic sour drink.
1You require food; perhaps a glass of kvass will do you good.
2You drink too much French brandy and too little good Russian kvass.
3They served, too, a pie with onion and steamed turnip with kvass.
4Bread, soup, boiled potatoes, and kvass were placed on the table.
5There were continual cries of: Father, kindly give us some kvass!
6Because a Russian I once knew told me that kvass tasted like liquid bread.
7But I've never had kvass, so I can't really compare.
8Preparations for fireweed tea Andrei serves more kvass and crayfish.
9Go to Sidorov's and get some kvass, you jade!
10He made me sit down at his table, and gave me food, and the kvass he promised.
11Does it taste at all like kvass?
12She smiled and shook her head doubtfully: "My father sometimes eats bread dipped in kvass," she said.
13One day after luncheon I poured myself out a glass of kvass, and then dropped the decanter, and so stained the tablecloth.
14All about him the stacked slabs of ice were carved into shelves and niches, which contained fish, fowl, and barrels of kvass.
15The favourite materials employed in the native cookery are sour cabbage, cucumbers, and kvass- akindof very small beer made from black bread.
16At first he wandered up and down selling beer and kvass-fillingthe cups of all who wished to drink....