Pantry

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...

This is the tomato paste stirred into every pot of sauce, soup, or stew simmering on a Balkan stove. Hana makes this tomato paste, 650g (22.9oz) pe...

Royal Basmati Rice — long-grain Indian-grown basmati in the family-size sack. Aged long-grain basmati from the Royal kitchen line — the aromatic, s...

Ortiz Borrelblikje — small-format Spanish-tradition canned tuna. Ortiz's signature line in the borrelblikje (Dutch "apéritif-tin") format — premium...