Pantry

Va-Va's somborka fillets — Macedonia's long red somborka pepper sliced into ribbons, brined sharp, snap-firm. Bright vinegar, sweet-pepper undernea...

Va-Va Cabbage Leaves are whole preserved sour cabbage leaves from Va-Va Premium Foods — the pliable, tangy brined cabbage leaves that the Macedonia...

Macedonia's sour cabbage leaves from Natural Farmer in the family-host pour — whole brined leaves ready for the sarma roll. Pliable, tangy-bright, ...

Natural Farmer's sour cabbage leaves in the holiday-host pour — Macedonia's whole brined leaves scaled for the big-family sarma bake. Soft-firm, ta...

A jar of hot feferoni on the table is non-negotiable next to ćevapi on the grill — that sharp vinegar bite is half the meal. Natural Farmer's Fefer...

Macedonia's baby gherkins in Va-Va's holiday-host jar — the largest pour for the family dinner that draws cousins. Small whole cucumbers, snap-firm...

At a Macedonian family barbecue, a bowl of giardiniera always sat next to the grill, sharp and cooling against the smoke. Va-Va Premium Foods (made...

Every mezze table back home has a jar of grilled peppers cracked open next to the bread. Va-Va Premium Foods grills these Mediterranean cherry pepp...

Someone always warns the kids which jar is the hot one before the peppers hit the table. Va-Va Premium Foods marinates these hot and sweet red cher...

This is the mixed vegetable jar that sits on every Macedonian table, cauliflower and carrot and pepper pickled together the way it's done back home...

A tin of kolači like these disappears fast at afternoon coffee, sweet biscuits with a jammy center everyone reaches for first. Sunday makes this Li...

Natural Farmer Tetovac White Beans are large white beans from the Tetovo region of North Macedonia — the Tetovac bean, prized across the Western Ba...

Va-Va's red cherry peppers stuffed with cheese in the starter pour — Macedonia's bite-sized mezze for the small kitchen. Sweet-red cherries, cheese...

Macedonia's yellow cherry peppers stuffed with cheese from Va-Va in the everyday pour — sweet-yellow mezze for the smaller crowd. Cheese-stuffed ch...

Va-Va's yellow cherry peppers stuffed with cheese in the holiday-host jar — Macedonia's sweet-yellow variant of the mezze classic. Bright yellow ch...

Macedonia's red cherry peppers stuffed with cheese from Va-Va in the family-host jar — the bite-sized mezze scaled for crowd-feeding. Sweet-red che...

Va-Va Ajvar With Cheese — the Macedonian breakfast shortcut. Kapija-pepper mash folded with bijeli sir into a single spread — the morning plate of ...

A jar of drenjak on the breakfast table meant someone had gone through the trouble of gathering wild cornelian cherries, a taste few outside the Ba...

A spoonful of cherry jam pastry filling swirled into a strudel is a taste that brings many back to a Macedonian grandmother's kitchen. Makprogres, ...

A spoonful of fig jam pastry filling brings back the smell of a strudel baking in a Macedonian kitchen. Makprogres, founded in Vinica, North Macedo...

Pelafino Jungle Noodles — Macedonian fun-shape pasta for the kids' plate. Animal and tree-shaped pasta from the Pelafino Skopje home-line — the chi...

Marco Polo Hot Ajvar — Macedonian-sourced, US-distributed. Marco Polo carries Macedonian-recipe kapija-pepper ajvar into the broader US grocery cha...

Va-Va's fire-roasted red peppers in the holiday-host jar — Macedonia's kapija charred, peeled, garlic-oil bathed, scaled for crowd-feeding. Smoke-r...

Va-Va's whole tomato peppers in the holiday-host jar — Macedonia's round paradajz paprika scaled for the big-family Slava. Snap-firm sweet-red fles...