Savory Staples

Bende Tarhonya — Hungarian toasted egg-drop pasta. The tarhonya pellet — small toasted Hungarian egg-pasta drops, oven-baked into pörkölt accompani...

Kelemen Grated Noodles — Hungarian reszelt tészta for soup. The grated egg-noodle reszelt tészta from Kelemen's Hungarian line — small irregular bi...

Fine Meze Greek Dolmas — vine leaves stuffed with rice and herbs in the ready jar. Tender grape leaves rolled around rice, dill, and aromatics in t...

Black-eyed peas showed up in the pantry for the slow-cooked stews that filled the house with the smell of home. Hana's Black Eyed Peas come packed ...

Hana Red Kidney Beans — Turkish-pantry dried legume in the standard pour. Deep-red kidney-shaped beans in the Hana Turkish-kitchen line — the slow-...

Hana White Beans — Turkish-pantry dried legume in the kitchen-size pour. Plump white beans in the Hana Turkish-line — the foundational legume the A...

Kelemen Csiga — Hungarian snail-spiral egg-noodle for paprikash. The csiga hand-pressed snail-spiral from Kelemen's Hungarian pasta line — small cu...

Birkel Schwäbische Spätzle — Württemberg German egg-noodle since 1874. Birkel's century-and-a-half Schwäbisch house presses the classic Spätzle — s...

Shell pasta cupping a thick tomato sauce is a Sunday table memory shared well beyond Italy. This is Maltagliati's Organic Conchiglie #364, an organ...

Riscossa Lasagna Riccia — Italian Piedmont curly-edge lasagna sheet. Riscossa's Piedmont pasta house presses the curly-edge lasagna riccia — the wa...

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

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...

Nord Port Lightly Salted Herring — Belarusian traditional cure. Whole herring in light salt brine, the Slavic preserved-fish standard the Russian a...

Herring like this is the dish everyone reaches for first on a Polish Christmas Eve table. Lowell Foods packs these Country Style (Po Wiejsku) herri...

Original Atlantic Herring — Russian-tradition lightly-salted fillets. Atlantic-caught fillets in the gentle salt cure the Russian diaspora kitchen ...

Canned salmon on buttered bread was the quick spread laid out when guests dropped by unannounced. Vici's lightly salted salmon fillets, a Lithuania...

See Can Cod Liver in Own Oil — Norwegian Atlantic-cure pantry staple. Wild Atlantic cod liver packed in its own rendered oil, the Slavic-and-Baltic...

Patelina Tuna with Vegetables — Serbian pâté starter jar. Tuna paste folded with diced vegetables into a smooth pâté for the bread plate — the Serb...

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

Krakus Herring Fillets in Tomato Sauce — Polish-style standard cure. Vinegar-cured herring fillets folded into a sweet-tart tomato sauce — the Poli...

A tin of cod liver opened onto the table meant the appetizer spread had started, mashed onto bread with a slice of raw onion the way it's done acro...

Eva Adriatic Sardines with Vegetables in Tomato Sauce — Croatian Dalmatian classic. Adriatic-caught sardines simmered with diced vegetables in a sw...

Tinned fish in oil is the pantry staple that turns into a quick lunch when there's nothing else in the fridge, the can everyone keeps a few of on h...

Moja Neoplanta Fish Pâté — Serbian-style smooth spread, starter jar. Smooth fish pâté in the Belgrade-tradition pantry format — the spreadable tinn...