Pantry

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

Apricot jam spread thick on morning bread was a fixture of Macedonian breakfast tables. Vitaminka, founded in North Macedonia in 1956, makes this K...

No Macedonian barbecue table is complete without a squeeze of mayonnaise next to the ajvar and the grilled meat. This is Vitaminka Extra Mayonnaise...

Tangy rosehip marmalade in the pantry was grandmother's traditional recipe, spooned onto morning bread. Vitaminka 1947 makes this Šipak (rosehip) m...

Plum jam was the taste of late-summer harvest, spread thick on morning bread. Vitaminka 1947 makes this Šljiva Džem (plum jam) po tradicionalnoj re...

Mixed fruit marmalade on morning toast was a taste straight from grandmother's pantry shelf. Vitaminka 1947 makes this Miješana Marmelada (mixed ma...

Jars of homemade jam lined grandmother's pantry shelf every autumn, drenjak (cornelian cherry) among the tartest and most prized. This is Vitaminka...

Macedonia's miješana salata in Vitaminka's family-size pour — the same Skopje brining tradition, scaled for the holiday table. Multicolor mosaic in...

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 jar of marmelada on the breakfast table is as ordinary and as loved as bread itself, spread thick without a second thought. Vitaminka A.D. of Ban...

Vitaminka's prva klasa krastavac — Macedonia's first-class cucumber pickle since 1956, the standard Skopje pantries have stocked through every gene...

Vitaminka's miješana salata — Macedonia's industrial mosaic jar since 1956, the kind Skopje pantries have stocked through every winter. Cauliflower...

No plate of grilled meat back home was complete without a jar of tangy pickled cucumbers cut into the side, the vinegar cutting straight through th...

Macedonia's industrial feferoni since 1956 — Vitaminka brines slim green peppers hot, the same way Skopje pantries have stocked them for generation...

Macedonia's šljiva pekmez from Vitaminka — slow-cooked plum spread, dark-glossed and sweetened-mild. Thick-spreadable, plum-deep, the Skopje-pantry...

Vitaminka Mild Ajvar — Skopje's 1956 industrial classic. The Macedonian factory recipe that defined ajvar for generations of diaspora households — ...

Vitaminka Hot Ajvar — Skopje 1956 recipe, chili register. The hot variant of the Vitaminka industrial classic — same smooth kapija-pepper mash, chi...