Pantry

This is the seasoning packet stirred into ground beef before shaping it into ćevapi and pljeskavice for the grill. Aroma makes this ćevapi and hamb...

The packet for the sarma pot. Aroma's sarma blend — Serbian dehydrated vegetable + spice mix calibrated for the rice-meat-onion filling that goes i...

Vispak Tajna's small-kebab seasoning — the ćevap packet, Bosnian-pantry. Visoko-house spice blend with paprika + black pepper + dried garlic + the ...

Vispak Tajna's burek seasoning — the spice for the dough. Bosnian-pantry blend calibrated for meat-filled phyllo: black pepper + paprika + dried on...

These golden turmeric noodles are the ones that turn up in a simple soup on a weeknight, the smell filling the kitchen while dinner cooks. Makaron ...

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 Mag...

Korean-style carrot salad turns up on nearly every spread across the former Soviet countries, and this little packet is what makes it taste right. ...

A jar of Deroni sauce on the table meant the grill was already going and everyone was hungry. Deroni's Classic Sauce For Meat is a Bulgarian recipe...

A jar of spicy ketchup with a kick was the twist on the family table when someone wanted more heat with their meat. Deroni Jalapeno Spicy Ketchup i...

Zvijezda Sunflower Oil is a 1-litre bottle of refined sunflower oil from Zvijezda — the Croatian food company's neutral cooking oil, the household-...

Kırlangıç Refined Sunflower Oil — Turkish kitchen-default frying oil. The neutral-flavored refined sunflower oil the Turkish household keeps as the...

Olympia Tecuci Classic Mustard — Romania's mustard town, table standard. Olympia's classic line from Tecuci, the Romanian town that built its ident...

Oro Di Parma Triple Concentrated Tomato Paste is an Italian triple-concentrate tomato paste — the most intensely reduced form of the tomato paste c...

Karla Maric Rechteckige Fleckerl — Austro-German square-flake egg pasta. The rectangular Fleckerl pasta — small egg-noodle squares from the Austria...

Smoked paprika like this is what turns a simple stew into something with real depth, a pinch stirred in near the end. Picantina grinds this natural...

Franck — Croatian sweet paprika, Zagreb-house ground. The mild crimson dust the Croatian kitchen has used for paprikash and ćevap garnish for gener...

Vispak's sweet paprika — Bosnian-pantry crimson. Visoko-recipe ground sweet pepper, calibrated for the gulaš and čorba the Sarajevo kitchen builds ...

Bucati noodles like these were the shortcut dinner on busy weeknights, ready in minutes with whatever sauce was on hand. Pelafino makes these bucat...

Homestyle shell noodles like these turned into Sunday lunch, tossed simple with butter or a light sauce. Pelafino makes these shell noodles in Mace...

In many Balkan households with German ties, egg noodles like this went straight into the pot for a fast weeknight dinner, soaking up whatever sauce...

Neavyr Light Meat Solid Tuna in Vegetable Oil — Thai-caught, diaspora-pantry format. Solid-pack light tuna in neutral oil — the everyday weeknight ...

Kraken Wild-Caught Icelandic Cod Liver — North Atlantic protein. Wild Icelandic cod liver in its rendered oil — the Slavic-and-Baltic deli staple t...

Appel Herring Fillets in Dill-Herb Cream — German 1879 house. Appel's herring fillets folded into a creamy dill-and-herb sauce — the German Hamburg...

The paprika-red jars at the fish counter always meant someone was setting out a spread for guests. This is Appel's herring fillets in paprika cream...