Pantry

Pistachio preserves in a small glass dish were always the fancier offering when special guests came by. This is Saradis Greek Fruit Sweets in Syrup...

Greece's walnut spoon sweet from Saradis — whole walnuts slow-cooked in clear syrup, the Aegean welcome-guest tradition. Glossy-dark, syrup-soaked ...

Macedonia's Luna pistachio cream spread from Vitaminka — Skopje-pantry pistachio crema, sweet and richly nutty. Pale green, silky, the diaspora-Mac...

I Siciliani crunchy pistachio cream spread — Italy's Sicilian-pistachio-orchard tradition in spread form, with whole pistachio bits suspended throu...

Grah sa slaninom was the pot simmering on a Croatian stove on a cold day — Podravka's version brings that same bean-and-bacon comfort to a quick we...

The family jar of Nutella on the breakfast table, kids racing to be the one who gets the last spoonful. Ferrero, the Italian company that created N...

That lilac jar has sat in Balkan and Central European pantries for generations — the one you'd sneak a spoonful from before anyone caught you. Milk...

A jar of hazelnut spread like this waited in the pantry for the moment somun came out of the freezer. This spread blends hazelnuts, coconut, whole ...

A jar of stuffed peppers opened for a light lunch is a common sight on Macedonian tables. Gurmano makes these green peppers stuffed with cheese, a ...

These are the stuffed peppers your baka pulled from the pantry for guests, kajmak and cheese packed inside a whole red pepper. Poljorad of Bosnia a...

Podravka Lino Keksolino Butter Biscuit Instant Cereal Flakes are an instant cereal where crushed butter biscuit and cereal flakes are combined to m...

Mandy Foods Vegetable Pate with Spinach 120g is a Romanian vegetable-based pate where spinach is combined with other vegetables and seasonings into...

Mandy Vegetable Pâté with Olives is a 120g Bosnian spreadable pâté — a smooth, plant-based spread made with vegetables and whole olive pieces, the ...

Square Red Borsch Soup Mix — Polish instant barszcz packet for the diaspora kitchen. The Square Polish-American pantry line in the red-beet borscht...

A jar of pickled cauliflower and carrots on the table beside sarma, sharp with vinegar, is how winter preserves always looked growing up. This is V...

A big jar of pickled green tomatoes is the kind of thing that gets passed around a Macedonian family table until it's gone. These Va-Va Green Tomat...

A bottle of bulgogi marinade like this is what turns a simple family grill night into something new, poured over meat before it hits the fire. CJ F...

Vegeta Gourmet, the soup-mix variant. Heavier on dehydrated vegetables than the classic shake — built to dissolve into water and become broth in on...

A bowl of Frutolino cereal flakes with warm milk is the breakfast that got Croatian kids out the door to school on time. Podravka's Lino Frutolino ...

Rejemen Broad Large Square Egg Noodles — Hungarian nagykocka pasta tradition. The wide-square Magyar egg pasta — toasted in pork fat or folded into...

Bende Lebbencs No. 8 — Hungarian shepherd's-soup flat noodle. The puszta-tradition flat egg-noodle that anchors lebbencsleves — Hungary's bacon-pap...

Tarhana soup was the thing that showed up on cold winter mornings, the dried crumbles kept in a jar all year for exactly this kind of day. This is ...

Maltagliati Fusilli — Italian-American family-kitchen corkscrew pasta. The corkscrew shape calibrated to grab thick sauce and stay in the bite — th...

Krem supa od pečuraka is the soup that shows up on a cold day, the kind grandmother had simmering before you'd even taken your coat off. Mladost ma...