Meze

Crackers came out the moment card games started, passed around the table until the bag was empty. Podravka's Kviki makes these Mediterranean herb b...

Whole-grain rye bread like this is a staple on breakfast tables from Germany through Central Europe, dense enough to hold up under a thick spread. ...

Delba German Pumpernickel is a traditional dense, dark rye bread — made from coarse whole rye flour and slow-baked at low temperatures for many hou...

Croatia's yellow peppers stuffed with cabbage from Jadranka in the holiday-host pour — Dalmatian-coast sarma cousin scaled for the crowd. Long yell...

Conservfruct Green Tomatoes in Brine are unripe tomatoes pickled in a salted brine — the Eastern European preserved green tomato, harvested before ...

Fine Meze Stuffed Zucchini with Rice — Greek-style ready gemista in the heat-and-serve jar. Tender zucchini halves filled with rice, herbs, and aro...

Brother & Sister pork-and-beef luncheon loaf. A smooth Yugoslav-style luncheon meat blending pork and beef into a shelf-stable slice — the road...

A can of beef loaf in the pantry meant breakfast was covered, sliced thin alongside eggs the way it's done back home. This is Cekin's Beef Loaf, a ...

A can of tuna salad was the quick lunch on days there wasn't time to cook, opened straight onto a slice of bread. Eva makes this Dalmatian-style tu...

Quick lunch by the coast always meant a can of tuna salad, this one carrying a Mediterranean spice profile instead of the plain kind. Eva makes thi...

Savor the authentic taste of the Balkans with Boorek Spinach & Cheese Burek! This flaky, golden phyllo pastry is generously filled with a savor...

Deutschländer sausages simmering gently on the stove is a scene straight out of a German kitchen, the kind of smell that pulls everyone to the tabl...

A can of spicy Podravka pâté spread thick on bread was breakfast on a rushed morning back home, the kind every kitchen kept stocked. Podravka — the...

Back home, a quick chicken lunch meat sandwich was what got you out the door before school. The BestTaste Chicken Luncheon Meat — also labeled Vian...

The Balkan beef narezak — halal and shelf-stable. A smooth, lightly spiced beef loaf in the classic Yugoslav tradition, ready to slice onto bread o...

Teodora pork-and-beef narezak. A balanced pork-and-beef luncheon loaf in the Serbian narezak tradition — built to slice thick for the bread board. ...

Govedi Haše spread on a slice of bread was the quick breakfast before school on busy mornings. This is The BestTaste's Govedi Haše, a beef potted p...

Levantine beef mortadella with olives. Finely emulsified beef studded with whole green olives in the Lebanese-Turkish butcher tradition — halal-cer...

Levantine beef mortadella with pistachio. Smooth beef emulsion studded with whole green pistachios — halal-certified, in the Lebanese-Turkish butch...

Andy's chicken-and-pork wieners. A leaner chicken-base hot dog with a touch of pork for richness, lightly smoked in the Chicago Polish-American And...

Lithuania's classic cooked bologna. Smooth-textured, mildly smoke-flavored, made to the original Doktorskaya recipe still recognized across Eastern...

Lithuania's shelf-stable kabanos snack. Long, thin dry-cured pork sticks — Biovela's take on the Polish-style kabanos, with deep wood-smoke aroma a...

Balkan chicken parizer, with vegetables. A milder, family-friendly cousin of plain pileći parizer — fully cooked chicken bologna studded with fleck...

Lithuania's Krekenavos Doktorskaya. Pale-pink, finely emulsified pork bologna built to the GOST 23670 recipe — the canonical post-Soviet Doktorskay...