Pantry

Livada Parsley — Serbian-pantry peršun standby. Dried parsley flakes for the soup pot when fresh isn't in the fridge. Stir into čorba in the last s...

Vispak Tajna's sarma packet — Bosnian cabbage-roll filling. Visoko-recipe spice blend for the rice-and-meat that goes inside sour cabbage leaves. P...

Quince jam spooned over warm bread or palačinke is an autumn taste carried straight from a Romanian grandmother's kitchen. Răureni's Dulceață de Gu...

Marco Polo Plum Preserve — Bulgarian-orchard plums slow-cooked to a deep, dark fruit set in the 368g family jar, the šljiva preserve diaspora pantr...

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...

Podravka Malina Extra Jam is a Croatian extra-grade raspberry jam from Podravka, the Koprivnica-based food company that has supplied the Croatian a...

Pag island salt on lamb roasted slow over an open fire tastes like the Adriatic itself. This is Solana Pag's Paska Morska Sol Sitna Jodirana, a fin...

A small dish of dark, syrupy walnut preserve served alongside coffee is an Armenian tradition, made from whole green walnuts candied in syrup. This...

A spoonful of apricot jam on warm bread is a familiar Romanian breakfast, spread onto toast before school. This 270g (9.5oz) preserve is 45% aprico...

Sea salt from the island of Pag has flavored Croatian tables for generations, the base note under every home-cooked meal. Solana Pag harvests this ...

A jar of proper English preserve turning up on a European grocery shelf is the kind of find that makes a well-stocked pantry feel complete. Wilkin ...

D'Arbo Raspberry Fruit Spread — Austria's traditional preserve with 50% real raspberries, the family-brand jar Central European and Balkan diaspora...

D'Arbo Peach Fruit Spread — Austria's traditional preserve with sun-ripened peaches, the Darbo family-brand jar that has crossed Central European a...

Austria's wild lingonberry sauce from D'Arbo in the family-host jar — Alpine forest-floor berries in syrup, tart-bright and ruby-glossed. Berry-ten...

Granny's Secret jam is the jar that sat on every breakfast table back home, spread thick on bread still warm from the toaster. This Extra Jam is ap...

A bowl of buckwheat kasha next to the main dish was a fixture at the Russian family table, plain and unshakeable through generations. Made by Soyuz...

Honeycomb sitting inside the jar is what village markets back home always had, long before honey ever touched a store shelf. This is Pyramid's Pure...

Bende Hungarian flower honey — wildflower nectar from Hungarian apiaries, deep amber and herb-rich. Multi-floral, slow-set traditional style. Drizz...

Lino Pillows were the cereal waiting on the table before school, creamy-filled pillows scooped straight from the box. Podravka makes this Lino Pill...

A spoonful of cherry jam pastry filling swirled into a strudel is a taste that brings many back to a Macedonian grandmother's kitchen. Makprogres, ...

A spoonful of fig jam pastry filling brings back the smell of a strudel baking in a Macedonian kitchen. Makprogres, founded in Vinica, North Macedo...

Polan Adżyka — the Polish-distributed Caucasian fiery condiment. Adżyka in the Polan line — the Polish-import register of the fiery Georgian-Russia...

Thomy Mustard — the small-jar Yugoslav-era starter format. Thomy's standard mustard in the single-cook pour — the same medium-hot German register t...

Pelafino Jungle Noodles — Macedonian fun-shape pasta for the kids' plate. Animal and tree-shaped pasta from the Pelafino Skopje home-line — the chi...