Pantry

Vitarol's piquant pickle medley — Poland's take on a Greek-salad brine, all peppers, cucumber, and carrot with a spice-edged finish. Crisp, vinegar...

Sorrel soup in early spring was the first taste that said winter was finally over, a sharp green flavor nobody in the family could get anywhere els...

Germany's apfel rotkohl from Kuhne — red cabbage cooked down with apple pieces into a sweet-sour braise, ready to plate. Soft-pliable, fruit-bright...

Bulgaria's rice-folded vegetable salad from Steinhauer — peppers, carrots, and cabbage cooked down with rice into a savory stuffing-style pickle. S...

A vegan pesto like this means the meze platter doesn't have to skip anyone at the table. Fratelli Mantova, an Italian maker founded in 1960, blends...

Kinto Adjika Jalapeño Green Pepper Sauce — Russian-Georgian fiery green relish. Kinto's adjika in the green-pepper register — jalapeño, garlic, fre...

Foster's pickled garlic with a red-pepper kick — whole brined cloves with paprika edge, snap-firm and aromatic. The garlic jar diaspora cooks keep ...

Russian-style pickled garlic from Zakuson — tender green sprouts braided with whole cloves in vinegar brine, sweet-pungent and snap-firm. The zakus...

Ukraine's pickled garlic from Vkusno Smachno in the spicy pour — whole cloves brined with chili, sharp-tangy and warm-finished. The zakuski-table g...

Croatia's sour cabbage leaves from Hina in the family-host jar — whole brined leaves ready to wrap, scaled for the Dalmatian sarma bake. Soft-pliab...

Every Balkan winter pantry had its row of jars, and pickled garlic was the meza-table favorite that vanished first. Va-Va's jar holds whole raw mar...

Vitaminka's miješana salata — Macedonia's industrial mosaic jar since 1956, the kind Skopje pantries have stocked through every winter. Cauliflower...

Bosnia's miješana salata from Agrokomerc — Velika Kladuša's brining tradition in the family-size pour. Cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, pepper, and cu...

Zergüt's Polish-style sauerkraut in the starter pour — Bulgaria's fermented-cabbage take on the Wigilia classic. Crisp-shred, tangy-clean, lactic-b...

Belveder's sauerkraut with carrot in the everyday pour — Polish kapusta with the sweet-carrot lift, tangy-bright and crisp. Lactic-deep, color-warm...

Lowell's Polish sauerkraut with carrots — kapusta kiszona z marchewką, the Wigilia-table classic in the diaspora pour. Crisp-shred cabbage, soft-sw...

Maheev Russian Horseradish Sauce — creamier khren, family pour. Maheev's horseradish sauce in the mayonnaise-thickened format — softer than the pla...

Macedonia's spicy fermented cabbage from Va-Va in the family-size pour — the Balkan take on kimchi, all chili-bright and tangy with lactic depth. C...

Macedonia's sauerkraut from Va-Va in the everyday pour — Skopje-pantry fermented cabbage, crisp-shred and tangy-deep. Lactic-bright, alive with cul...

Bosnia's yellow paprike kisele from Zimnica — long pale yellow pepper fillets in vinegar-clean brine, snap-firm, mild-sweet. Layer onto a burek-and...

Knorr Fix Spaghetti Bolognese Seasoning Mix is a 40g German pantry staple — a dry spice and herb blend that delivers the complete Bolognese seasoni...

Aneta Green Peas Macedonian Canned is an 840g tin of cooked green peas — a pantry staple from the Aneta brand, the Macedonian food company whose ca...

Bulgaria's roasted red peppers from V&G in the family-host jar — kapija peppers fire-charred, peeled silky, packed in their own juice. Smoke-sw...

Knorr Suppenliebe Zahlensuppe — German kids' number-noodle soup since Heilbronn 1838. The Knorr Suppenliebe line in the number-shaped pasta format ...