Savory Staples

A pot of elbow pasta boiling for a quick weeknight dinner is a memory as ordinary and comforting as any other, whichever country's kitchen it comes...

Farm noodles like these went into the pot for a simple farmhouse-style dinner, plain and filling. Pelafino makes these farm noodles in Macedonia, p...

Original Muschel-Cocciole — German-style shell pasta for sauce-cup. The Muschel shell cut from the Original German line — small cups that trap sauc...

Aroma Pšenica Belija Wheat Kernels are 1kg of whole white wheat kernels — the grain used to prepare žito, the Serbian Orthodox memorial wheat dish,...

Mühlen Extra Wide — German broad egg-noodle for the big-platter side. The wide-ribbon cut from Mühlen's egg-noodle line — the broadest format, desi...

Bende Nagykocka — Hungarian large-square egg-noodle for kapusta. The nagykocka large-square Hungarian egg-noodle cut — designed for káposztás tészt...

Black Forest Girl Spaetzle — German Schwarzwald-style egg-noodle. The pre-formed Spätzle pour from the Black Forest Girl line — soft egg-dumpling p...

Podravka Griz Knedli — Croatian semolina-dumpling mix for the formal soup bowl. Podravka's Koprivnica 1947 line in the soup-garnish register — semo...

Podravka Dalmatian Tomato & Pasta Soup — the Croatian coast's juha rajčice. Podravka's Koprivnica 1947 line in the Dalmatian-coast register — t...

Podravka Beef Noodle Soup — Croatian instant goveđa juha, Koprivnica 1947 standard. Podravka's beef-broth-and-noodle classic in the household packe...

Delikat Borscht Seasoning — Romanian sour-soup base in the household pouch. The Delikat Romanian-pantry borș concentrate in the larger format — sou...

Delikat Borș Magic — Romanian sour-soup seasoning sachet for the ciorbă tradition. Delikat's Romanian-pantry seasoning packet for the borș register...

Knorr Suppenliebe Sternchen — the German kids' star-noodle soup, Heilbronn 1838 line. The Knorr Suppenliebe child-friendly register with the tiny s...

Adamba Polish Red Borscht Mix — the Christmas Eve barszcz packet for the diaspora kitchen. Adamba's American-Polish pantry line in the red-beet bor...

The can of grah that turned into dinner on a weeknight nobody had time to cook from scratch, the smell of beans and sausage filling the kitchen any...

Adamba Polish Żurek Mix — the diaspora packet of Easter-Saturday white borscht. Adamba's American-Polish pantry line carries the żurek soured-rye b...

Yumis Domaća Beef Noodle Soup — Serbian household-style instant beef broth. The Yumis Belgrade-pantry instant goveđa supa with thin noodles — what ...

Yumis Tomato Soup — the Serbian household instant tomato bowl. The Yumis Belgrade-pantry tomato-soup packet the Serbian kitchen keeps for the after...

Kucharek White Borscht — Polish Żurek-tradition sour rye soup in the packet pour. The dried Polish sour-soup base the Kucharek pantry line keeps fo...

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

Every Orthodox fasting season there was a pot of sarma on the stove that skipped the meat but never skipped the flavor — this is that same dish, fr...

Best Taste Beef Goulash — Hungarian-style heat-and-serve ready meal. The pull-tab Hungarian comfort the diaspora pantry stocks for the no-stove nig...

Every home baker back home keeps a block of biljni mrs on the shelf for pastry dough and holiday cakes. Zvijezda makes this vegetable fat in Croati...

Santa Bremor Maties — Belarusian lightly-salted herring, Dutch tradition. Young-herring fillets cured in light salt and oil — the matjes-style Dutc...