Pantry

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Threeline Imports Cod Liver in Own Oil is a 190g jar of Icelandic wild-caught cod liver preserved in its own rendered oil — the traditional North A...

Master Round Grain Rice — the Bosnian short-grain pantry staple in the starter sack. Round white rice in the Master Bosnian-household line — the st...

Master Round Grain Rice — the Bosnian household-size sack of the everyday short-grain. The larger-pour format of the Master short-grain line — the ...

A jar of real acacia honey is the kind of thing families keep for tea, sore throats, and Sunday breakfast, all at once. This is Natalie's Acacia Ho...

Breakfast back home meant a slice of honeycomb straight off the jar, wax and all, next to warm bread. Seebees harvests this natural raw acacia hone...

A spoon of acacia honey stirred into tea or drizzled over warm bread is a small taste of Balkan beekeeping tradition. Seebees' Natural Raw Honey, A...

Seebees Serbian raw floral honey — multi-floral wildflower nectar from Serbian apiaries, slow-set and unfiltered. Deep amber, mixed-bloom, alive wi...

Romania's sweet cherries in light syrup from Alvada Nature — whole sweet cherries preserved fruit-bright in clear syrup. Ruby-glossed, sugar-fresh,...

Răureni compot de visine — Romania's sour cherry compote in light syrup, the Bucharest-pantry winter-dessert classic. Tart-bright, ruby-glossed, fr...

Capers like these turn up in every Mediterranean kitchen, salted and cured the way they've always been, ready for the dishes that need that sharp b...

Romania's prunes in light syrup from Nevada Nature — whole prunes preserved soft in clear syrup, the Bucharest-pantry winter classic. Dark-amber, f...

Va-Va Fig Extra Jam is a 580g jar of Macedonian-style high-fruit-content fig preserve from Va-Va Premium Foods — the Extra designation indicating a...

Plum jam next to a slab of kajmak on fresh bread is a breakfast plenty of diaspora kids grew up on. Takovo's plum jam is a Serbian fruit preserve, ...

Whole cherry, light syrup. Danish Choice's cherry preserves keep the fruit whole in a Scandinavian-jam restraint that lets each cherry shine — on t...