Savory Staples

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...

Nord Port Traditional Caviar Spread — Belarusian zakuski staple. Imitation-roe spread in the Eastern European tradition — orange-pink, salt-bright,...

Krupchitsa Margarine — Eastern European baking-and-spread workhorse. The plant-based margarine the Slavic kitchen pulls for the budget bake and the...

Veladis Salmon Roe — Ukrainian zakuski centerpiece. Orange salmon eggs cured in light brine, the bursting bead the Ukrainian holiday table reaches ...

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...

A jar of rolmops next to rye bread and a shot of something cold is a classic Polish appetizer spread. Lowell Foods packs these marinated herring fi...

SBK Premium Salmon Caviar — Turkish-cured roe, household jar. Orange salmon eggs in light salt cure, the everyday-luxury format the Russian and Tur...

Haifa Smoked Fish Herring in Oil — German-cured, Levantine-distributed. Salt-cured herring pieces in neutral oil — the deli-counter classic the Jew...

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

Bandi Scandinavian Herring Fillet — Lithuanian seafood, Nordic-style. Bandi Foods (1996 Lithuanian-to-US exporter) carries the Scandinavian-cure he...

Bismarck herring on rye bread at a Sunday zakąska spread is a taste that says 'home' for Polish diaspora. Lowell Foods' marinated Bismarck herring ...

Ortiz Tuna in Olive Oil is a jar of premium bonito del Norte (white tuna) in olive oil from Ortiz — the Basque canning company from Ondarroa — prov...

In Turkish kitchens along the Aegean, olive oil is poured straight over sliced tomatoes and warm bread at breakfast, no measuring, just a steady ha...

The herbal vinegar bottle on the shelf, splashed over a fresh salad at Sunday lunch, is a small kitchen ritual passed down at home. Dr. Andra apple...

A bottle of apple cider vinegar in the pantry was there for every salad and marinade at home. This is Koro Apple Cider Vinegar, a German product in...

Every proper Balkan table has a bottle of vinegar dressing standing next to the salad bowl, its tang cutting through the richness of the rest of th...

Royal Basmati Rice — long-grain Indian-grown basmati in the family-size sack. Aged long-grain basmati from the Royal kitchen line — the aromatic, s...

Va-Va Cannellini White Kidney Beans — Macedonian-sourced dried beans in the household sack. Plump white kidney beans in the Va-Va Premium Foods pan...

Kırlangıç Refined Sunflower Oil — Turkish kitchen-default frying oil. The neutral-flavored refined sunflower oil the Turkish household keeps as the...

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 ...

Pasulj simmering on the back burner all afternoon is one of the most familiar smells from home, whatever you called it — pasulj, grav, or bathë dep...

Chickpeas simmering into a Sunday stew is a smell that fills the whole kitchen. Hana Chick Peas are ready to eat, packed 400g (14.1oz). Drain and h...

Dr Andrea Vitaline Apple Vinegar with Herbal Extracts — German wellness-line apple vinegar. Apple vinegar infused with herbal extracts in the Germa...