Pantry

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...

Sunday pasta on the table is a ritual that crossed borders long ago, from Italian kitchens to Balkan ones just the same. Maltagliati's Organic Farf...

A packet of this soup mix is what came out on a cold day or the first day back from school with a cough — clear broth with little noodles, ready in...

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...

The travel-jar Vegeta — the carry-on pour. The small format the diaspora cook tucks into a carry-on or sets next to the stove in a rental kitchen. ...

Sunday potatoes always got the same seasoning, sprinkled on before the pan went in the oven. Vegeta Natur makes this all-natural potato seasoning m...

Podravka Vegeta Natur Beef Bouillon — Croatian stock cube in the clean-label register. The Koprivnica 1947 house's Vegeta Natur extension in the be...

Schneckli German Egg Noodles — Bavarian-tradition snail-shape pasta. The small snail-curl egg-noodle shape from the Schneckli German pantry line — ...

A big pot of pasta on the stove is what dinner looks like after a long day, no matter which kitchen you grew up in. This is Maltagliati's Organic F...

Podravka Vegetable Soup Mix — Croatian instant juha od povrća, Koprivnica 1947 standard. Podravka's everyday vegetable-soup register — clear vegeta...

Fant Spaghetti Bolognese Mix — the standby Podravka pasta-sauce packet. The Koprivnica 1947 house's dish-mix line for the spaghetti-night meat sauc...

A packet of this creamy mushroom soup mix is the quick dinner base from a Polish grandmother's pantry, stirred into water on a cold evening. Adamba...

Every mother back home had her own tin of meat seasoning she'd never fully explain, just a pinch here and there before the pan got hot. This is a s...

Cosmin's mici packet — the Romanian grill standard. Caraway + black pepper + thyme + garlic + sodium bicarbonate, calibrated for mititei the way Bu...

Livada Dill — Serbian-pantry pickle herb. Dried mirođija for the krastavci brine, the salmon roast, the sour-cream sauce that finishes potato salad...

Grill sauce is what waits on the table every time the roštilj gets going in a Balkan backyard, passed around before anyone even sits down. This Der...

Zvijezda Suncokretovo Ulje is a 1-litre bottle of refined sunflower oil from Zvijezda — the Croatian edible oils and condiments brand that is one o...

Vavel Kozacka Mustard — the Polish coarse-grain Cossack-style standard. Vavel's Kozacka pour from the Polish Wawel-Krakow heritage — coarse-grained...

The smell of paprika going into the pot is the smell of Sunday lunch cooking for hours. Bende Hungarian Hot Paprika comes in a 6oz (170g) tin. Stir...

Fratelli Mantova Roasted Garlic Alfredo Sauce is a 350g jar of creamy Italian-style white pasta sauce with roasted garlic from the Mantova family b...

Dinosaur-shaped macaroni was the pasta that got kids excited for dinner without a fight, a little bit of fun on a weeknight plate in Germany. Mühle...

Basil and good olive oil is the smell of a proper Italian kitchen before dinner's even started. This one comes from Fratelli Mantova, an Italian ol...

Every proper Balkan table has a bottle of vinegar dressing standing next to the salad bowl, its tang cutting through the richness of the rest of th...